Originally Posted by
GriddleCakes
Fair enough; I'd only seen this bike on the internet, and assumed that it was a one-off design project, since I'm incredulous that someone would produce and market such a... goofy bike.
I am sorry about calling your thread a hoax, though. I made an assumption based on a hunch, and I was wrong to do so. My bad. For anyone else who's interested, the [strike]abomination[/strike] bike is a
Velonia Viks, made in Estonia.
It's actually an EU-funded project as part of the EU Structural Assistance Programme.
Essentially, the EU paid money to see if could be employed as a novel city bike.
The funded it to be built over 4 months and for €16k.
That makes it much cooler as it's a research project and suggests why they're "custom built."
Proof!
