While bicycles are good for maintaining all-out speed on the road, scooters can be pretty handy when it comes to navigating crowded sidewalks and paths. If you can't decide which one is more appropriate to your type of riding … well, you might want to get a Moox Bike. It's a bicycle/scooter combo, with a little bit of fatbike thrown into the mix for good measure.
If you're thinking that the Moox looks familiar, it may be because you're remembering the City PIBAL Streamer. It's also a scooter/bike hybrid, that's being manufactured by Peugeot for a bike-sharing program in Bordeaux, France. If you don't live in Bordeaux, then the Moox is probably your best bet for riding such a beast.
As can be seen, it has both a seat with a set of pedals, and a foot platform that the rider can stand on while kicking their way along. Unlike the PIBAL, it also has beefy 20 x 4-inch tires and heavy-duty mechanical disc brakes. Despite appearances, its fork is in fact rigid, not suspended.
Some of its other specs include a 6000 series aluminum frame, sealed bearings, a Shimano RDM310 7-speed rear derailleur, and a Shimano Grip Shift shifter.
If you're interested, the Moox is currently the subject of a Kickstarter campaign. A pledge of US$649 will get you one, when and if they're ready to roll. The planned retail price is $999.
It can be seen in action, in the video below.
Sources: Moox Bike, Kickstarter
And who gets up early on a monday morning to go to a skate park?
this is just plain stupid. i mean, if they had been serious about this idea, they would have 1) encased the cog in a chain protecter for right legged kicking 2) found a way to design the pedals and cranks to be out of the way while you kick.
frankly, this isn't really a kick scooter anyways because no one kick scooters off road with mountain tires because it's not only pointless but too difficult. to if it's a kick scooter for streets, it's an awfully heavy , knobby tired, and difficult to kick kick scooter. essentially a piece of crap compared to a 100 dollar razor or total crap compared to an average adult kick scooter like a xootr.
as a bike it's also obviously a piece of shit. and of course, someone will try and slap an electric motor on it and tell you that it's still good 'as a bicycle'.
this is half assed design at its worst. sorry for the scathing review but it's just so obvious the person who designed this is neither into kick scooting nor really into cycling .
i love to hate stuff like this, i admit it.