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I wonder how much more efficient it would be to mechanically hook the pedals up to the spinny part of the blender?
by Rebelgecko 6y ago
I wonder how much more efficient it would be to mechanically hook the pedals up to the spinny part of the blender?
- raffraffraff 6y agoA lot more efficient. This sounds like a novelty, but in reality, bicycles are for endurance more than sprint. Using a battery as a buffer would enable a customer to pedal until the battery is charged enough to blend a smoothy. That could be a slow 20 minutes cycle out a 5 minutes sprint.
- compsciphd 6y agoshark tank 2 years ago https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/20/shark-tank-entrepreneur-pitches-bike-blending-smoothie-bar-moberi.html https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/20/shark-tank-entrepreneur-pitc...
- grecy 6y agoA lot. In fact most "pedal smoothie machines" you see work that way. But I wanted to build it the way I did to be educational as well. When kids struggle after 15 seconds I say "You'd have to pedal a LOT harder continuously to power your xbox. That really gets them thinking.