What do you get if a BMX bike were to somehow mate with a skateboard? Technically this is impossible, not just because the BMX bike and skateboard aren’t actually living creatures, because even if they were they’d have different chromosomes and thus not be able to produce an offspring. But getting past those issues, we return to the question at hand, and since this sounds like the makings of a mad science experiment gone bad – let us also say that a third ingredient is added to the mix, namely a scooter.
So now we’re really crazy. But the result would the sbyke, the invention of Bart and Steve Wilson, who apparently broke their BMX bike, ruined a perfectly good skateboard and created a scooter-like contraption.
The sbyke – which is confusingly pronounced “spike”- has a fixed-position front wheel that isn’t turned using the handlebars but rather by the shifting weight of the rider. There is a break attached to the handlebars to stop this thing at least.
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Now, don’t get us wrong, it looks strange but we’ve seen a lot of strange products at KineticShift.com, and some of us have had to spend the evening with an ice pack because of crazy stuff like this one. But the truth is that the Wilson’s have created an intriguing ride with the sbyke. It is made from aircraft-grade materials that should stand up to some rigorous rides, and even allow riders to catch some crazy air.
Hey, it has been said that people thought the Wright Brothers were nuts, so maybe the Wilsons are on to something truly unique.