Bike Tart
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Industry watchers have seen for some years now the electric bicycle gain traction amongst various manufacturers. Touted for innumerate reasons as the 'best new two wheeled thing ever' (just like the Segway was), the cycle industry seems to be increasingly lurching towards battery power as the 21st century alternative to our legs (remember those?) in a sort of gradual spiral of laziness that threatens to seal a Wall-E like future for us all. Whether we all end up in matching blue baby suits is for now at least, still an open question, but if companies like Boxx have their way, that reality will almost certainly be assured.
As perhaps one of the most daring designs we have ever seen, the Boxx electric 'bicycle' certainly deserves some accolades for being different. There must of course be a market for this bike (whether that be one customer or 1000 remains to be seen), but for us, aside from the fact that we find the whole electric bike concept an affront to the simple motion and pleasure of cycling, does anyone really want to ride around on what basically amounts to a suitcase with wheels? Hey, maybe the makers are simply frustrated airline passengers, who in one fell swoop have both revolutionised the time consuming traverse of the airport, and invented a whole new sport of luggage riding.
We'd love to know your thoughts, but for now, we're just off to take the hoover for a spin.
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