Yamaha EC-02 Electric Bike

We’ve seen before that a bed comes with ab iPod dock, which was claimed to be the biggest accessory for iPod ever. Now, this time is an iPod accessory that runs on the road. It’s an electric bike from Yamaha, EC-02, which comes with a built-in iPod dock. It’s kinda inappropriate to say that such a big bike is an accessory of iPod. But, it’s undeniable that iPod is simply so popular that even an electric bike needs to have a dock for it to increase its selling point.

Lets look at what is so cool about the Yamaha EC-02 Electric Bike, which is supposed to be the topic here not the iPod dock. This bike comes with a pretty appealing feature i.e it glows in the dark. The idea behind the glow-in-dark feature, according to Yamaha is ‘The technology enables the exterior to give a more vividly stereoscopic impression of the three-dimensional shape of any surface treated with the film’.

The bike is fully electric, which doesn’t burn any fuel but can cope with a rather short range of just 40 miles and top speed of 18mph. It should be sufficient and handy for you to ride it around in a small town. Furthermore, its small size is definitely easier for you to find any space to slot it in for parking. This bike comes with an extremely quiet engine. To some of you, this will lose the real feeling of riding a bike. But, no worry, there are also stereo speakers in the faux tank, so you can load motorcycle sounds onto your iPod and hook it up to this bike to let you have the kind of feeling of riding a real bike.

This bike is currently available for sale in Japan only for around $2,000. Anyway, this electric bike simply reminds me the kind of moped that I’d ever ridden in the city of Amsterdam back in 1997.