Bike Kickstarters We Love: The Grillrider
E-bikes, folding bikes, folding e-bikes that fit in your pocket and interface with your commuter helmet to flash a holographic map of your city out onto the road—it’s hard to keep up with the latest progression of nonsensical bike technology on Kickstarter.
But just when we thought we’d reached the point of bikey Kickstarter fatigue, a new invention not only made us believe in the future of crowd-funded gizmos, but also rekindled our longtime fantasy of opening up a taco stand outside the Bicycling headquarters.
Introducing the Grillrider, a bike trailer and rolling outdoor grill in one. Like a tiny food truck on wheels, the Grillrider lets you tote around all your cookout gear by bike with a gas grill, insulated 85-liter cooler, full table set for four, and more. The German company 2bellidee behind the design seems to have thought of everything—including internal LED lights, a rear light, convenient locking capacity, a USB charger, and a battery power pack that charges smart phones, and—oh yeah—a way to grill food (tacos!) from virtually any bikeable location.
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Tailgating a cyclocross race this weekend? Load up the Grillrider with supplies. Simply don’t want to host a rowdy barbecue in your backyard? Just coast over to the local park and set up shop. Visiting the Bicycling headquarters? Stop by our future eatery, Taco Velo. All the included grill materials can be either stowed within the Grillrider’s cargo box and towed by hand or bike, or completely removed to use as a lightweight, empty 150-liter bike trailer. Check out the Grillrider’s Kickstarter—still in its infancy—for more about the surprisingly affordable product’s Swiss-Army-like uses, which can be had in Early Bird Starter form for roughly $342.
Our only question is, “Where was the Grillrider this past summer when we needed it?”
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