I want to fly my bicycle....

Can I add a speculation too?

Maybe he was looking at the GoPro. I bike (bicycle) and I can't tell you how many times people just stare at me . . . They think the light on my helmet is a camera. They even pose sometimes . . . And I very kindly tell them they're a dumbass, it's just a light.

He went through the entire vid without mentioning Williams Hybrid Power, the spin-off from the flywheel storage developed for the Williams F1 car in 2008/2009:



Unfortunately it couldn't be scaled up to the increased KERS output required for the 2011 season, at least not in a way that fit in an F1 car, so Williams now run the same electric KERS as everybody else. The flywheels are used in other racing series and in road cars though, as mentioned in their vid.

One very obvious difference between the prototype bicycle system in this vid and the WHP version is that they are using relatively lightweight composite flywheels and then spinning them to speeds that would tear apart the car flywheel from this vid, typically 20,000 to 50,000 rpm. This greatly increases the amount of energy storage available which increases linearly with mass, but with the square of rotational velocity.

http://rpm2.8k.com/basics.htm

For a bicycle, the gyroscopic effect would actually help maintain balance. The added weight isn't a big deal if the place you ride is mostly flat. There are some safety concerns of any appendages contacting the flywheel.

Even with awesome bearings, that flywheel probably loses most of its stored energy overnight. ("serious" energy storage flywheels are floating magnetically in a vacuum at 50,000 rpm)

For cars, batteries can store *many* more joules of energy per kg, so using flywheels instead of batteries would make the vehicle less efficient- since it's heavier.

Would be neat to make a pedal-car with flywheels, rider(s) would pedal constantly to add energy to the flywheels, even when at a red-light. Sell it as exercise equipment for short commutes.

Probably not much different than the gyroscopic effect you get from the main bicycle wheels.

18K for this bicycle with walls, and it can't even ford small bodies of water?!?

That's not the pro model shown here.

There is currently a Kickstarter project for the pro model.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/minimonkey/monkey-light-pro-bicycle-wheel-display-system

You can get a pro model for $495.

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Kickstarter program for this is in progress here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/minimonkey/monkey-light-pro-bicycle-wheel-display-system?ref=category

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Buy a bicycle, kid. Actually, a tricycle might be best so you don't fall over too much.

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You can also use a shim to release the catch on the ties, or if you have replaced your shoelaces with paracord you can use them as a friction saw by bicycling your legs.

Both of these methods are easier if you have a little slack to play with, so don't tighten your own restraints unless you are certain the zip ties are thin enough for you to break successfully, or you don't have anything available to use as a shim or saw.

Edit: To clarify, I don't mean to suggest shimming or sawing are easier than snapping (Though with very thick ties it can be). I mean it is easier to shim or saw with a little slack, than to shim or saw without slack.