Hoy, a six-time Olympic champion and founding investor in Skarper, has demonstrated a prototype of the device to Red Bull team principal Christian Horner which has sparked up the partnership, and its engineers will aim to make the device smaller and more powerful.
This will create a light and portable system that clips onto Skarper’s DiskDrive – that replaces any rear disk on a regular bike – to deliver electric power immediately.
The design, which contains a 250-watt motor with a battery that has a range of up to 60km, can attach seamlessly to the rear disk of a bike to provide no loss of performance compared to other electric bikes.
The device is expected to be officially launched later this year.
Source: Autosport