There's no way this thing is going to do anything like 80 miles at 80mph (or even be able to hold 80mph for very long). It'll probably be 80 miles at something like 20mph, and I wish manufacturers would stop playing these games :(

Perfect little commuter at a reasonable price. Finally!

Schmoe - no vehicle ever made will hit its range at top speed.

If they had a storage compartment where the fuel tank normally goes or at least extend the battery compartment up for a larger battery and some sort of comfortable seat and room for a passenger, I might be interested. This looks more like a kid's plastic toy. At least they are in the zone on price but need a little more range.

The Sondors Metacycle has a sweet looking and stylish design, and it's probably really easy to push around with that low center-of-gravity.

@schmoe90 it has a 80 MPH top speed and the manufacture says it offers "up to 80 miles on a single charge". Nowhere in there does it say you will achieve the maximum range while traveling at top speed and they almost certainly they mean city driving. Electric bicycles achieve 80 miles on a much smaller battery than that so it's plausible the range can be achieved at low speed. At 80 MPH sustained you probably wouldn't make it even 30 miles.

I give it a thumbs up. The design is beautifully simple and I think it's a useful little toy for around town. People are mostly guaranteed to ask about it where you go. I wouldn't be surprised to see someone make some after market cargo bags to occupy the space where the gas tank is not. Storm Sonders seems like a pretty unique person.

It's cool that these electric motorcycles all look like 1980's keytars anymore, but tiny footpegs set so far back are dangerous beyond driveway speed, much less 80 miles an hour. When I was a kid I had a minibike with little footpegs like that, you know, no bigger than your thumb, and I often snagged a tennis shoe on the ground when my foot slipped off (ow!). I'm afraid for the young model in the photograph, with her pencil-thin legs and toothpick ankles and feet. I think there should be adequate places to put your whole foot, with a rail around and maybe a little bumper in front of each one; and they could be air fins. And the electric motor could be pulsed to play buzzy music, like a singing Tesla coil or a really big floppy drive, so inattentive or blind people won't step off the curb into your path and cause a problem.

In wet weather you'd be soaked and covered in mud due to the lack of mudguards/fenders.

And, of course the 80 miles per charge is nowhere near real world mileage.

The bike is cheap just because the battery is of low capacity - there is nothing ground-breaking about that.

That appears to be more of a scooter than a motorcycle. Why only a 4kWh battery?