MotorPunk July 2013 | Page 28

Kitbag - MonkeyBikes

\r\n\r\nIt’s a well known fact that the best nights out are usually the ones you don’t plan for. As a feckless undergraduate at the University in Plymouth, I remember half-heartedly meeting up for a pub lunch with an old school chum who had a spare day’s shore leave from his destroyer - at 9.00pm I regained my faculties just as the hammer was coming down at a charity auction in Exeter. Apparently we’d just sold ourselves as Michelin starred chefs prepared to rustle up any dish the lady bidder might fancy. OK, so she bought us both for a mere £20, but that was an interesting night!\r\n\r\nNowadays an unplanned bender usually results in your P&J being abandoned overnight in the car park of your local. How will you retrieve the car? While you might be a fitness fanatic with a predilection for Lycra, the last thing you want to do with a stinking gin hangover is jog to the boozer - what if it were more than a mile away for heaven’s sake? We’re not Olympic athletes!\r\nHowever, we at Motorunk think we have the answer with this range of collapsible mopeds that can be ridden to the inn and then popped in the boot of your motor ... once the waves of nausea and self-loathing have subsided to a sensible level.\r\n\r\n

For the iPod Generation...

\r\nFirstly, we have BOXX Corps’ two-wheeled electric transportation device. If Imperial Stormtroopers had designed the Trunki ride-on suitcase then it would probably have looked like this. Measuring just a metre square the Boxx has a low centre of gravity and clever AWD with ABS. Although, as a moped, top speed is limited to 30mph, with upgraded power packs it has a potential range of 120 miles and can be fast-charged in one hour. Since it contains no fluids Boxx reckon their compact machine could be stored in the cloakroom of the most bijou urban pads. In any case, since it costs $3995 before upgrades, it’s not the kind of thing you’re likely to see lashed to a tree with a rusty Halfords bike lock. Ideal for retrieving your Aventador from a swanky West End wine bar.\r\n\r\n