The ride is astonishingly
good on NZ’s notorious,
bumpy, eternally under-
repair streets and roads
the tech buried beneath, but offers an
excellent lidded glovebox, superbly clear
analogue and digital info screens, buttons
that control everything. Seated behind an
almost weatherproof, tall tinted screen, the
ergonomics are a game-raiser. But perhaps
the most miraculous is the switch that locks
the dual front wheels on any slope angle
or rutted surface – holding the bike upright
and still. The lock releases automatically as
one moves away, but seated at the lights
for example, legs up, the bike holds rock
steady, somewhat like a tripod.
But it is on the road that this dual front
wheel config comes into its own. Designed,
I assume, to deal with the rugged and
vibration-inducing cobbles of older Euro’
cities, the ride is astonishingly good on NZ’s
notorious, bumpy, eternally under-repair
streets and roads. Both the size of the
wheels – with enough gap between them to
guarantee at least one solid contact patch at
KIWI RIDER 105