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Old 07-31-2021, 12:41 PM   #38 (permalink)
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Orbis Wheel updates
The last post in this thread is almost two years old. At the time, it looked like the company had gone dark because they had suddenly pulled the product for new orders.

But they're still here, it seems, with a website updated this year and a San Francisco Bay Area address (Mill Valley, CA): https://orbisdriven.com

And a video with clips of more recent testing is on YouTube (new road testing/demo video starts at 3:27 and runs for about a minute and a half):


Still, given their claims... their youtube channel is oddly quiet: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFO...TLf1h5Uzc9YCAw

Seems the pandemic halted their wheel development and shifted them to COVID mask innovation attempts.
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