Teen develops dirtbike-cleaning Rino Blade
And scores a spot on The New Inventors to explain itEver get home from a long dirtbike ride -- a real mud-fest -- dreading the clean-up afterwards? Not everyone's got a high pressure water jet, and getting into all the little nooks can be a right royal pain in the coccyx at the best of times.
We were watching ABC television show The New Inventors the other night and saw a neat little device called the Rino Blade, which has been designed to improve the efficiency of cleaning dirtbikes.
Invented by Hayley Wilson from Sydney, the Rino Blade appears to be made from some sort of polymer-plastic and is flexible at one end and rigid with teeth at the other end, and is deceptively simple when you look at it. There's some footage on the ABC website which shows the Rino Blade in action, and it would appear to work efficiently on both wet and dry mud.
Hayley Wilson, aged just 17, said she got the idea for the Rino Blade after seeing her old man and brother getting frustrated at the lack of a useful (and cost effective) implement to manually clean their motocross and enduro bikes.
Impressively, Hayley has already won an award from Standards Australia for Innovation in Industrial Design. The next step is to start manufacturing the thing, and if the price is right it could be an international hit.
Watch this space!
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