KNO3 sent this in. It’s all in Russian, and I don’t read Cyrillic letters, so I can’t tell you what the heck they’re talking about. I can assume it’s a sales pitch, as some of the funnier things I can imagine happening DON’T happen in this video. And the music is awfully serious.
This looks like some pretty good homespun tech going on. I say what we do is show the video to a bunch of Swiss engineers and tell them that they probably couldn’t build anything better. In the space of a few months, they’d have it down to a two-kilo racing vehicle that hovers a good two feet up and also folds neatly into its own case. In red anodized finish. Then, we find those trials bike guys in Scotland and tell ’em THEY can’t find a way to ride it up and over, say, a smallish mountain and the roofs of the town on top thereof. Then we bring whatever they invent over to the United States, have Mountain Dew sponsor a big race on these things, and pretty soon, China will be producing them for SportSmart to sell at a price we can all afford.
Boom. Fun.
I’d love to show this to my Russian associate at work. Unfortunately, I got laid off and don’t work there anymore, and doubt I’ll be going back anytime soon. It’d be interesting to get it translated.
I can read Russian well enough to sing from a Russian songbook, but can only understand the basics and loanwords. What I can understand at a glance- They’re calling it a “Mini-SVP” or an “Aero-catamaran”.
It has a top speed of 55 km/h
It’s rained enough here, I have some water I could actually go out and have fun on with this…
I doubt SportSmart will be in business much longer with someone like Ed Honcho now seeing red….