Hover bike -will it ever catch on?

Into the sand, not a problem. If it got me around the traffic, I'd go for it. Around my parts it now getting impossible to filter a bike on some of the minor roads due to traffic.
 
Many people don't have the competence needed to ride a normal motorcycle safely . With the hover bikes be autonomous ?
 
The big problem with air-cushion vehicles is directional control. Since nothing is touching the ground, "steering" inputs change heading but not direction. You have to wait for thrust from the propeller to overcome the moving inertia of the vehicle. Definitely not suitable for use in traffic.
 
frankdamp said:
The big problem with air-cushion vehicles is directional control. Since nothing is touching the ground, "steering" inputs change heading but not direction. You have to wait for thrust from the propeller to overcome the moving inertia of the vehicle. Definitely not suitable for use in traffic.
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Your explanation is only relevant if you are on ground level, but since in a traffic jam you would crank up the power and fly above all the rooftops of the tin box cadgers you will be saying “What traffic jam?”
 
What traffic jam?

WHAM!

Some other clown with a hoverbike just killed you, he never saw you as he was checking out the traffic jam below, as well...
 
The dynamics of air-cushion vehicles are such that the cushion quickly disperses as you get farther away from the ground. One the size of the ACV motorcycle wouldn't get much above 6" high. The big "Princess Class" car-carriers that worked across the English Channel got their structure about 8ft above ground, but the edge of the cushion fabric was only a couple of inches above the ground/water.
 
frankdamp said:
The dynamics of air-cushion vehicles are such that the cushion quickly disperses as you get farther away from the ground. One the size of the ACV motorcycle wouldn't get much above 6" high. The big "Princess Class" car-carriers that worked across the English Channel got their structure about 8ft above ground, but the edge of the cushion fabric was only a couple of inches above the ground/water.
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You clearly haven’t read the text it’s more like a motorbike-drone hybrid

The so called “Hover-bike” works like a 4 propeller Drone, there is NO Skirt to trip over!!!!


http://gulfbusiness.com/video-dubai-police-test-hover-bike/

Here’s another one;

http://www.hover-bike.com/
 
Still the wild wild air space with death awaiting. You get a couple hundred of them in the same city, and it's just a matter of a short time.
 
Isn't there some concern about the spinning propellers that are inches from the rider's legs? Keep your feet on the pegs, boys and girls.
 
There is such a thing as PRODUCT LIABILITY. It even applies when you sell modifications to a normal motorcycle.
 
Actually, Bernhard, I had read the text but hadn't watched the video. Since I was active in amateur air-cushion vehicles many years ago, I had equated "hover-something" with that kind of hover vehicle. not a four-rotor pseudo-helicopter. I'd insist on armored leg coverings to ride that thing, so my legs would destroy the rotors, not vice-versa!
 
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