Tilting Uready e-Trike Rides Like a Jet Ski on Asphalt, If You're Up for It

One Germany-based designer sure hopes so. Here is the latest working prototype of his creation, an electric trike he calls Uready. You’d better be (ready).

Now isn’t the first time we’re featuring Uready. Though designer Oguzhan Albayrak doesn’t mention this in the latest KickStarter campaign, it looks like the new Uready is an upgrade to the Uready we featured in November 2020.

The older model was designed with joggers and persons with limited mobility in mind, having been created as a supportive, motorized frame that took 40% off your weight’s body, allowing you to run faster and farther. Thanks to two foldable footrests and a 300 W front hub motor, whoever used the trike could also ride it much like it would a motorized kick scooter, albeit in a different standing position.

The new Uready is for riding only, from what the description of the product on the crowdfunding page says. Specifically, it’s meant to replicate the feeling of riding a jet ski, but on asphalt. It tilts on turns, packs a more powerful motor, locking brake, and the promise of delivering miles upon miles of fun. Just make sure your knees can take whatever bumps you encounter along the way.

“With my e-trike, I would like to create a means of transport that doesn't just take you from A to B,” Albayrak writes. “It should be fun. That's why I had the idea of adapting the feeling of a jet ski to the road. Jet ski on asphalt! That's how my e-trike came out. You can currently see the prototype.”

Indeed, getting from point A to point B should be fun. Various solutions released in recent months emphasize that: personal transport is evolving and, more importantly, adding a fun component to mobility. It’s also highlighting fitness, but that’s not the case here.

With the Uready, you only get the fun since the trike will be doing most of the work for you. As a side note, the footrests fold, so you can push it, or you can even use it for jogging like with the previous model. There’s a 500W motor in the front wheel, delivering 60 Nm (44 lb-ft) of torque and a top speed of 20 kph (12 mph). Again, the product description lacks details, but the mention of a thumb throttle hints the trike has at least two riding modes.

A frame-integrated lithium battery is said to deliver a maximum of 35 km (22 miles) of range on a single charge, with the mention that this will vary widely in real-life scenarios depending on the rider’s weight and riding conditions. Expect much less if you’re on the heavy side and mostly ride up hills or inclines.

The bad news is that, once the battery dies out on you, you’re stuck wheeling the trike home: there is no option to pedal back home as it happens with e-bikes (duh, since there are no pedals on this thing). The good news is that you can double the range by adding a second battery to the frame.

Disc brakes on the front wheel and the rear wheels offer stopping power. A parking brake ensures it doesn’t roll off when parked, and there’s a locking mechanism for its frame so that it remains upright. Albayrak says he’s working on making Uready foldable for easy storage inside homes and garages.

Being a prototype, it doesn’t have integrated lights, display, or fenders. Albayrak is positive these will be added, too, just like with the folding mechanism.

The plan is to produce the first batch of 45 units of the Uready, and ship them all to backers in September this year. The price of Uready is €3,900 ($4,690 at the current exchange rate) with one battery and €400 ($481) more for the second battery. Experiencing novel approaches to urban mobility isn’t cheap, you can tell.