Street Sports Innovation Spotting

When you’re pregnant, you see pregnant women everywhere.  And I can attest that when you’re writing a sports innovations blog, you see sports innovations everywhere too.

Last night I was walking to my bus stop after work and saw it.  It passed in my peripheral vision and at side-blur looked like a skate attached to a bicycle.  I turned around, and by the time I figured out what it was and wanted to snap a photo with my cell phone, it was a fading dot. 

What was it?  I felt like an entomologist discovering a new insect species.  And later that evening after a long 10 minutes of Web research and still not finding it, I was getting even more excited.  But alas, it’s been around at least since 2006.  Perhaps it’s just taken that long to make it to France (as inversely, the Tecktonik music and dance wave is heading to the North America).

Imagine crossing an indoor gym step machine, elliptical trainer and an outdoor bicycle.  Et voila!  Suddenly you have new “species” roaming the streets.  What’s it called?  Streetstepper and Stepper Bike are just two brand names.  The below video explains it better than words.  Notice how the Streetstepper jock passes the regular cyclist.

Now you don’t have to decide- get all the benefits from using the StairMaster while enjoying an outdoor bike ride.  I wonder how the fitness clubs will top this?  They’ve only got rain going for them so far . . . 

–Kate

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