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throwaw122 minutes ago
4T valuation is incoming.

there are currently 600M kids between 0-4 ages. Imagine each paying $100 for this bike, we are talking about $60B revenue. On top of that Tesla is planning to sell accessories and subscription to these bikes, which will grow their revenue by another $120B

We haven't even started talking about how experience with these bikes will shape these kids and eventually they will buy Tesla in the future when they grow up (we are talking about another $50T market cap addition over 30 years, around 125M new customers every year)

IANAL, P&L, this is not a financial advice: Invest now before its too late

/sarcasm

giammaabout 1 hour ago
This is a balance bike meant to attract the dads who are fans of the brand rather than a balance bike meant to be good for kids.

First the handlebar is too large for small hands and comes with no grips, second the top tube is too wide to be comfortable between the legs and the whole frame is just edges.

If you want a good balance bike look for brands like prevelo [0] or woom [1] who have been designing kid bikes for years.

[0] https://prevelo.com/products/alpha-zero

[1] https://woom.com/en_INT/balance-bikes/self-balancing-bike/wo...

dveeden28 minutes ago
JR1427about 1 hour ago
Just buy your kid a good quality pedal bike [0], and take the pedals off.

That way they can learn to use the brakes, and when you put the pedals on, they will quickly learn to cycle it. Took my daughter an afternoon.

[0] e.g. https://us.earlyrider.com/products/belter-14-kids-bike-age-3...

SwellJoeabout 2 hours ago
Every bike is a balance bike. That's how bikes work.
marysol520 minutes ago
No doubt it's just a spray painted OEM product from China.
throw03172019about 4 hours ago
Can’t wait to see these with “F Elon” stickers in San Francisco.
foco_tubiabout 1 hour ago
technically this is a hobby-horse, not a bike
ErroneousBosh5 minutes ago
I feel like most of us could knock this up out of ply with a handsaw and a drill, and 3D print some covers to go over it, in about an afternoon.

Or, you know, spend a tenner on a used one off Facebook Marketplace and a fiver on a tin of spray paint to make it all cool and custom.

CamelCaseNameabout 2 hours ago
This is pretty cool, but seems like a massive waste of time for Tesla.
elil178 minutes ago
It is completely in-line with their strategy to become a lifestyle brand for tech-savvy conservatives: https://shop.tesla.com/category/lifestyle

(That's pretty normal for a car company - many car brands have a lifestyle department).

ErroneousBosh3 minutes ago
I was just thinking, I'm surprised they haven't started making ludicrously expensive road bikes with like 9-spoke wheels and oval carbon-fibre frame tubes, and not just bluetooth gears but brakes too because it saves a gram off the frame weight.

The overlap between Tesla arseholes and roadie arseholes is probably considerable.

No, Preston, the yellow lambswool jumper that cost as much as a second-hand Fiat is not making you faster. Take it off, you look like a tit.

epolanskiabout 1 hour ago
It's between odd and creepy, not sure where the cool is.
LewisVerstappenabout 1 hour ago
If your reaction to this is that it’s odd/creepy, that says more about you than it does the bike.
alteromabout 2 hours ago
....Why?!
alteromabout 2 hours ago
Seriously though.

Musk promises self-driving cars, hyperloops, tunnels, and what they actually deliver is... a †balance bike*?!

Satire is dead, because I can't imagine a worse self-own.

mDyJzDPmBdG2 minutes ago
I mean at least it is transportation adjacent. Tesla flamethrower on other hand ...
croteabout 1 hour ago
Same reason the Musk Corporate Universe does everything else: because Elon woke up and thought it would be cool.
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da-xabout 2 hours ago
How about for grownups? Those old ICE motorcycles are still making city centers noisy and it would be nice to start phasing them out with electric.
epolanskiabout 1 hour ago
This isn't electric, it's a balance bike for kids you push it with your feet.

In any case there's endless electric bikes on shops.