Copy the car: AutoVelo is no ordinary bike

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Designer Eric Stoddard has a thing for designing bikes that feel like cars.

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Winners of thewill be announced in March in Taipei, and one of only three U.S. entries(out of 938 entries from 55 nations) introduces a somewhat novel (and in the bike world somewhat taboo) concept: copy the car.

The bike, which designer Eric Stoddard ofhas named AutoVelo, is an electric bike targeting riders who are more accustomed to driving cars. Mimicking the arrangement of a car's innards, the hand and foot positions, seat height, and back angle should feel very familiar to the car commuter.

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The frame is one of the only in the bicycle world with such a low step-over, so that riders can not only mount and dismount easily, but also put their feet on the ground with barely a stretch.

Eric Stoddard's electric Trik.E bike.

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Like many of this year's finalists, AutoVelo is an electric bike, with a rear-wheel motor and battery mounted--and practically invisible--beneath the frame. There's even a little please-don't-rain-on-me windshield for the fair-weather riders, but it does not extend over the back of the saddle, where one can hang a (preferably waterproof) backpack.

AutoVelo is essentially a concept bike, but now that it is short-listed at the IBDC, keep checking backfor a release date and price. And as a concept, it is only somewhat novel; Stoddard has already designed a human/electric-powered bike that mimics certain aspects of cars (or is it golf carts?) with his .

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