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    Technophile

    Feb 06, 2019 3 minutes
    WORDS DEAN CORNISH

    ELECTRICMOTORCYCLE

    great way to get out into nature is via dirt bike. Trouble is – dirt bikes are noisy, smelly, petrol-burning beasts. Swedish design company Cake wants to help with that. It has invented a $21,000 electric dirt bike, the . This bike has been engineered from the ground up and every part of it is designed to be as lightweight and high performance as possible – giving the rider all but, for a more low-speed and practical version, it’s worth checking out New Zealand-designed – an electric dirt bike based on the good old Kiwi farm bike. The has twowheel drive, as the name suggests, and sports a 1kW Flux Drive motor per wheel. In conjunction with a full-frame suspension system, this makes the extremely capable in rough terrain, albeit with a top speed just shy of 50km/h. But the has a pretty sharp price point. We say for stunts, and for touring and adventuring.

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