A 24-year-old from Bristol has designed a foldable motorcycle which he says still has the performance and handling of a traditional model. Ethan Wilkin has been named as one of the winners of the 2023 Innovators Awards with his electric motorcycle, which can be folded down to fit in a small space normally inaccessible for traditional motorcycles.
Ethan said he first started thinking about building a foldable electric motorcycle a few years ago and started collecting parts and working on his ideas. For his final year project in product design at university, he went into full production mode for eight weeks and built his first prototype.
“I grew up tinkering with electric bicycles which started getting bigger and faster and so then I started building a motorbike,” he said. With high marks for his university project, he felt “it was too good to let it go” and he applied for a scholarship grant which allowed him to iron out details for his design.
