Tech News: Everything from Trucks to Cars to Busses to Motorbikes Are Getting Electrified!
In January, Cake introduced a new electric off-road motorcycle at the Outdoor Retailer trade show in Denver. This new bike is called the Kalk. It is only half as heavy as a regular motorcycle. It weighs just under 155 pounds and can travel—silently—up to 50 miles on a battery charge.
I have long been a fan of motorcycles and motorbikes. I've found that having lived in Asia for several years especially in SE Asia motorbikes are a way of life! If you don't have one or get a ride on one, you often won't be arriving on time to meetings / appointments etc. Traffic is a huge obstacle because the roads were never built to accomodate the massive numbers of commuters they support these days...
Cake, led by its fearless CEO Stefan Ytterborn, a Swedish national is attempting to create a new category of product, à la the iPad, the SUP, and, of course, the mountain bike.
The bike is for “anybody who’s attracted to it,” Ytterborn says. “I don’t believe in genders. I don’t believe in age. I believe in neutrality.”
Personally this bike excites me. I would love to get my hands on one and test it out with the type of road conditions pictured above. I've long been an enthusiast of mountain biking
The Kalk looks like the love child of a mountain bike and a motocross bike that was conceived at an Ikea store (a former Ytterborn client from his pre-POC career in design and branding). The frame, body, and chainstays are metallic; the stanchions are golden; and the saddle, fork, and fenders are white. The bike is noticeably sleeker and less burly than its moto predecessors but not as svelte as its mountain forebears. Whereas Alta Motors’ Redshift bike, perhaps the closest counterpart, has distinctly motocross DNA, Ytterborn considers the Kalk to be 70 percent downhill or enduro mountain bike and 30 percent motorbike.
The Kalk is surely an impressive bike and I'm instantly jealous of anybody that has already had a chance to test this bad boy out!
What do you guys think of this new modern age of electric mountain/motocross hybrid bikes? Does this excite you as well?
Please leave thoughts and comments below!
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Cake Is Making Electric Motorcycles for the Masses - Outside Online
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Es una bicicleta fabulosa, excelente innovación, también me encantaría tener una, seria feliz . gracias por compartir. saludos
Interesting electric off road bike... Very good design
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You have to electrify bikes eitherwise pollution will affect and moreover we have to go the the atomic energy or in the solar energy
Going electric is awesome. The world needs all of it. Crude oil will one day be a thing of the past with inventions like this.
And this is really awesome. I have seen electric cars never heard of electric bikes. Their batteries must be of great standard going by the light weight in your description.
Nice post @techblogger. When you are ready to own one, I hope you will be kind enough to buy two and give one to a friend like me? Smiles
I drive a PHEV (plug-in hybrid electric vehicle) and in the whole last 12 months I have refilled petrol a total of 4 times , once I get the solar panels installed I can go totally off-grid !!
That is freakin awesome man! Keep it up! Amazing you could go a whole year and only fill up 4 times. What about the charging stations in your area? Are they very accessible? How long does it take to get a full charge?
I charge at home only. ..drive to work and back is less than 50kms so most of times i can cruise on pure EV.
high voltage point charges it in 6 hours. ..normal voltage 8 hours. .
Mitsubishi outlander doesnt cost an arm and leg ...you can stay pure EV for 50km...