Yearly, I put collectively a listing of a number of the finest, brand-new electrical bikes and bikes you should purchase … and this yr is not any completely different. Besides it’s, as a result of there’s a minimum of one bike that actually deserves to be on that “finest bikes” record, nevertheless it doesn’t actually match into any bike class I can consider. That bike: the Jackrabbit.

Weighing in at a featherweight 24 kilos and sporting an ultra-short body between a set of 20″ BMX-style wheels, the Jackrabbit isn’t actually a motorcycle. For starters, you don’t pedal it — nevertheless it’s undoubtedly not a bike, both. It has no suspension, nevertheless it has a throttle. It even manages to type of “fold up,” however with out truly folding.

Regardless of the way you attempt to classify it, in different phrases, there’s at all times one thing a bit completely different about it. “We do describe it as a micro e-bike,” mentioned Jackrabbit co-founder, Jason Kenagy, after I interviewed him on the Electrify Expo in Austin final yr. “That’s what varied reviewers have taken it on as.”

Placing the Micro in Micro-mobility

Picture by the creator.

No matter it’s, it’s silly enjoyable – and it does have a motorcycle kind of “really feel” to it as you trip it. The Jackrabbit has a motorcycle geometry, it’s made with bike elements, and it even rides like a motorcycle. The most important variations, from the seat, are the Jackrabbit’s ultra-responsive dealing with that comes courtesy of that compact wheelbase, and the truth that your toes are, left-to-right, in the identical place.

The static foot placement can really feel a bit bizarre, however after a couple of minutes on the transfer it feels pure sufficient, and I began to understand that, for a motorcycle that’s this small — sufficiently small to be checked as baggage on Southwest, in truth — it feels fairly roomy. Roomy sufficient, in truth, to suit NFL participant Michael Davis of the LA Chargers.

Micro E-Bike, Macro Model

Selfie courtesy NFL participant, Michael Davis, of the LA Chargers.

“It was designed by bike lovers, bike mechanics as properly, and we simply realized that 80 lb. e-bikes are nice,” says Jason. “I’ve a number of, and I take advantage of them — however numerous the time you simply want one thing that’s extraordinarily mild, transportable, and can get you anyplace you wish to go. And you’ll simply seize a Jackrabbit and go.”

I’m not the one one enamored with Jason’s creation. “The portability of that is a part of the enjoyable issue,” says my pal Matt Teske, the founding father of EV charging app Chargeway and co-host with me of the Electrify Expo Podcast. “You add the ‘micro’ in and then you definitely add the pliability of how one can journey and use it.”

Conceptually, and in observe, the Jackrabbit is the other of one other favourite of mine, the heavyweight, fat-tired, 30 MPH Himiway Zebra. “That’s type of like taking the RV out of the storage,” says Jason. “You may match 3 Jackrabbits within the trunk of a Tesla Mannequin 3,” he jokes, “bringing bikes to a present, I can match 12 in my small SUV.”

3 Jackrabbit E-Bikes Match In A Tesla Mannequin 3

Picture courtesy Jackrabbit.

See? He’s not kidding!

No matter what you name this factor or the way you may consider it, you undoubtedly owe it to your self to take a look at the Jackrabbit. With a 20 MPH high velocity and “10+ miles” of scooting vary, the Jackrabbit could also be simply the factor to make your final mile of using the smilingest mile of the day.

Don’t simply go away it at that, although. Tell us what you consider the Jackrabbit within the feedback part, under, and keep tuned for the Greatest E-Bikes & Bikes You Can Purchase In 2023, coming quickly!

Pictures through Jackrabbit.

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