Look at this marvelous bike. It looks like a regular bike but it does not. Called Green Speed bike, it is an air-powered replica which is also ecologically friendly. Designed by industrial designer Edwin Yi Yuan, this mind boggling vehicle produces zero emission while harnessing solar power in order to compress air. According to its designer, future such vehicles as bikes and motorcycles would be using compressed air as a standard fuel. Hopefully, the zero pollution engines will be used in air powered cars as well. Due to the fact the air is easily available elsewhere the engines like this are expected to catch on.
Sure enough, there are some disadvantages in terms of using air-powered engines including lower driving range as well as limited speed which seem to be not as much appealing as high speed models. The Green Speed air powered motorcycle is based on the Suzuki GP100 produced in 1970s.
The designers have removed many accessories of the bike including the petrol tank, gear box, engine to use only its frame, wheels and brakes. Actually, this green bike includes a rotary air engine invented by Melbourne engineer Angelo Di Pietro. The engine is light weight but mighty which runs on compressed air taken from 3 compressed air tanks.
The Green Speed bike air powered bike produces 10 000 RPM so no needs for a gear box. The bike features just one gear which appears to be a sprocket fixed to the engine’s axis and adjusted to the rear wheel. Its on board carbon fiber tanks are designed to store compressed air.
The bike is expected to features solar panels to produce enough power to be able to compress air so as to store it while improving its operating range. There are neither head lights nor brake light or indicator lights as the bike was created to be speed record breaking bike. Instead of that, 3 little cameras are installed at the front and tail of the bike designed to shoot your ride while its body frame made of fiber glass or carbon fiber is light weight and aerodynamic.
