It is a biblically wet London afternoon, forget Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell in Four Weddings and a Funeral. I am picking my way through a grey and cold Camden Town, having to choose if I want to be splashed by taxis or have my eyes poked out by umbrella-wielding tourists. I am heading for a quiet mews just off the main thoroughfare and away from the famous market to visit Skarper.
Skarper’s e-bike conversion kit has been in development for three years but will soon be available to the general public. To make it possible, the company teamed up with Red Bull Racing’s Advanced Technologies department and raised 12.8m of investment. Skarper also has the backing of Olympic gold medalist Sir Chris Hoy, who devastatingly announced his terminal cancer diagnosis this week.
