Spotted Downtown Minutes Ago- The 'Eliptigo'
Eve in our office is SRTC's unofficial bike and pedestrian coordinator/expert. She was really excited when she got here this morning because she saw a guy on a bike like this outside our building and had never seen one before. She looked it up and found out it's an 'Eliptigo.' She said she was too busy watching the rider to think of taking a picture or asking him about it until he was too far away to catch. Because apparently the bike was fast.
Anyone own one of these bikes or know someone who does? Got the scoop- how they compare to a regular bike, how much they cost, the advantages over a regular or recumbent bike, etc.?
About SRTC
SRTC is the federally designated Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for Spokane County. Urbanized areas with populations exceeding 50,000 people are required to have an MPO. SRTC was formed to address the county's transportation planning needs. It provides coordination in planning between the public, cities, small towns, the county, the state, transit providers, and tribes.
SRTC offers services including transportation monitoring, transportation modeling, census information analysis, travel demand forecasting, historical traffic count analysis, geographic information systems, and trip generation rates.
Eve in our office is SRTC's unofficial bike and pedestrian coordinator/expert. She was really excited when she got here this morning because she saw a guy on a bike like this outside our building and had never seen one before. She looked it up and found out it's an 'Eliptigo.' She said she was too busy watching the rider to think of taking a picture or asking him about it until he was too far away to catch. Because apparently the bike was fast.
4 comments:
@Steve posted this a minute ago, but for some reason it only came into my email inbox, didn't show up on the blog. *&^%$ technology!
Steve's comment: "They've got a web site: http://www.elliptigo.com/
At $1,800 for the basic model, I probably won't be buying one any time soon."
Yikes! That hurts @Steve. At that price, I won't be getting one anytime soon either, although it looks pretty fun.
check out Street Stepper, competive pricing a so so sexy
You missed these guys at the BTW breakfast. I bet they'll be there next year (they were there last year and this year). I also saw them at the Lilac Parade.
Elliptigo had a booth at the Bloomsday trade show this year, you musta missed that one too.
I saw one of these zipping down the street after the BTW wrap-up too, they get going pretty dang fast!
This pesky 40 hour a week work gig is getting in my way of getting out in the community! I had a meeting at the same time as the BTW breakfast that kept me from attending and the day of the Bloomsday Trade Show I was trying to crank something out to hit a deadline. I'll have to make a better effort at scheduling in the future.
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