Design

Behold the YikeBike, the Super Lightweight Folding E-Bike That Looks Like a 'Star Wars' Droid

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YikeBike.com

Hey guys, wanna go yiking? It's like biking, only much sillier.

At first, I wasn't sure if the YikeBike out of Christchurch, New Zealand – purportedly the world's smallest and lightest folding electric bicycle – was real. In its folded-up position, it looks like something you'd want to shoot lasers at in the Star Wars universe; people riding on it could be mistaken for office workers stealing ergonomic chairs. But its website lists a network of dealers that spans six continents, and then there's this rad safety-testing of the anti-skid brake system: