10 April 2013
Bike sharing is very convenient, but can you really compare it with owning an electric bicycle upholstered with fine leather? It’s called Cykno and is the brainchild of Bruno Greppi, Luca Scopel, Gianpietro Vigorelli and Riccardo Lorenzini. It has a monocoque frame of carbon fiber and aluminum, a saddle supported by a tempered stainless-steel blade and a lithium battery that recharges in about 4 hours, providing an operating range of 60 km. It is ostentatious, light (weighing only 26 kg) and strictly Italian—apart from the Swedish 250/500 watt motor. You’ll be able to catch a glimpse of it in the streets of Milan during Design Week. I wonder how it copes with the rain…
