How many hours can you spend stuck in city traffic before your spirit finally breaks?

For founders Luke and Kendall, it was years of numbing daily commutes through Auckland’s congested streets.

Luke remembers sitting in lines of idling cars, breathing in exhaust fumes and watching time slip away. The frustration wasn’t just about being late, it was the quiet resignation. The sense that we’d all collectively accepted spending hours each week sealed inside metal boxes as the best we could do. That didn’t feel like progress.

For Kendall, the commute drained the day before it even began. Stress over parking in the morning. Gridlock on the way home. The city started to feel less like a place to live, and more like a giant waiting room. They weren’t simply looking for a faster way to get to work, they wanted commuting to feel human again.

Fed up and determined to find an alternative, the pair retreated to a garage and put their engineering backgrounds to work, beginning with an unlikely experiment: converting a humble BMX into a moped. That first project quickly evolved into something bigger. Before long, they were developing lightweight electric motorbikes designed specifically for urban life: simple, efficient machines built to cut through congestion rather than sit inside it.