Bike

The Polaris Slingshot is half car, half motorcycle with a sort of Batmobile-esque design. Sporting a completely new motor and auto transmission for 2020, it's likely the most fun you can have without resorting to a straight up two-wheeler.

The first electric cargo bike from Minnesota bike builder Surly is a long-tailed two-wheeler fitted with Bosch’s brawniest EV drive unit, promising the kind of pulling power befitting an “18-wheeler of the cargo bike world.”​

Grow bikes are nothing new in the children’s bicycle scene, however Monkeycycle is an extraordinarily modular new innovation designed to offer your child eight different configurations, morphing from a stroller for the nine-month-old, to a pedal-powered quad bike for a six-year-old.

Attempting to solve several bike rack issues all at once, Seattle's Stag Rack presents a versatile, multi-sport rack designed to mount on any vehicle in about two minutes. The system relies on vacuum cups and interchangeable mounts to easily switch between carrying bikes or skis.

Bike helmets can look dorky and are often too bulky to stash in a bag. The Park & Diamond is a new helmet designed to solve both of those problems, resembling a baseball cap when it’s on your head and collapsing down to the size of a water bottle when it’s not.

Handlebars seem about as important as wheels in bike design, but Swiss inventor Yvan Forclaz has done away with them in favor of a joystick. The Joystick Bike has been tweaked and refined since we first saw it a few years ago, and now it’s almost ready for tinkerers to get their hands on it.

​Last year, sonic wizard Sam Battle transformed an old kids bike into a rolling synthesizer. Now he's updated the design for a Science Gallery Dublin exhibit, plonking an analog synth and drum sequencer between the handlebars of a BMX. This time though, the Synth Bike 3.0 goes nowhere fast.​

​With its Smog Free Tower up and running and already making inroads into Beijing's infamous smog, Studio Roosegaarde is now looking to expand its arsenal of pollution-fighting tools with a bike that purifies the air around it. ​​

When Raleigh released its Chopper wheelie bike in the 1970s, it became something of an instant classic. An original 1973 MK2 has now been turned into the Synth Bike 2.0 mobile groove station – complete with analog synth, built-in speaker and wheel-based tempo control.

With its new Seeker backpack, and the two bike mounts launched alongside it, GoPro is looking to make it easier for amateur and professional adventurers alike to take their action cams with them.

The ConferenceBike, a seven-seater bicycle with all riders seated facing each other in a circle, is a different kind of conference table.

Joining the likes of lthe elliptiGO and Bionic Runner ​that offer a different take on pedal power, the LFN Bike combines a vertical pedal drivetrain with electric power for a totally unique way to get your legs pumping on two wheels.​