Xkuty is a Bike, You Can Ride it if You Like
If God had meant Man to ride a bike, then He would have given Him pedals I’m sure. And yet there are still people around who insist that bicycles are the only thing standing between us and ecological Armageddon.
They’re probably right; they usually are, and despite the fact that, like most motorists, I find cyclists to be a nuisance, I suppose that if we have to have them, they should at least be silent, smooth and silky, as is the case with Xkuty, which in spite of sounding like a Japanese toy that is more real than you would want a toy to be, is in fact a bicycle.
Of course it’s not an ordinary bicycle; if it was I wouldn’t be wasting my time writing about it here. Xkuty, as its creators say, “is a new way of getting around. Like a bicycle that doesn’t need pedals, or a light, silent scooter. Easy to handle, you can control it from your Iphone. Extremely light and it can be recharged by solar energy. It has a range of up to 100km”.
Wait a minute, control it from your Iphone? Is that really a good thing? Didn’t we learn anything from the Twin Towers attack?
According to Carlos Felipe, CEO of Electric Mobility Company, the company based in Castalla, Alicante that manufactures Xkuty, one of the main reasons people don’t cycle to work is that they sweat, and so the Xkuty enables people to get to work, clean and pristine, without damaging the environment because, thanks to its unique Spark system, the bike recharges itself using solar energy.
The Xkuty, weighing a mere 45 kilos, provides sweatless execs with lightness, stability and proportionality before they arrive at the office to convert themselves into Masters of the Universe. And like Winston Churchill, the people at Xkuty love tripling; describing their product as one that provides efficiency, cleanliness and sustainability, in an accessible, intuitive and simple way.
The integrated Bluetooth system enables Xkuty riders on the storm to connect to their iPhones, so making hands-free conversations possible, or listening to Steppenwolf’s ‘Born to Be Wild’ while silently gliding towards the office where they can compensate for all that ecology by buying shares in petrol companies for their clients.
Being born to be wild of course doesn’t meaning riding without helmet, and Xkuty also offer helmet in six colours manufactured from carbon fibre, a material that guarantees minimum weight combined with maximum safety, and is designed according to the standards of ECE R22.05, as defined by the United Nations European Economic Commission working party.
Dennis Hopper must be laughing in his grave!
The 3,000 units turned out each year are not only sold in Spain, the company has internationalised and is also selling in Paris and in London, where you can buy them in Selfridge’s, the department store of the randy Mister Selfridge from the TV series.
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