Originally Posted by
Joe Remi
Maybe he's counting on people becoming too old to ride and they'll forget they ordered a Helix.
Actually, backers didn't order a bike, only people with a pre-order did it.
Like for all Kickstarter projects, Backers gave money to help to create the Helix, they will, maybe, eventually, receive a bike as reward for this help.
Look what happened with the Knog Oil bell project where the bell was first available in shops and backers eventually received a bell only after the actual bell commercialization.