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EXPLAINED: This weird e bike skateboard mashup looks like crazy fun - The Real Truth

BMX, skateboarding, e-bikes, and flat-track motorcycles—what do these all have in common? Well, they’re all what many people would consider “extreme sports.” But for people like you and me, it’s more than likely that we have experience with at least one of these sports.

But what if you loved all four of these disciplines so much that you wanted to do them all at the same time? Well, this is where this odd yet extremely exciting-looking thing enters the picture. It’s called the Dryft Board, and it’s an odd contraption that might look like a kid’s toy to help them learn how to balance and eventually ride a bicycle.

But in reality, something completely different.

Dryft1, the company behind the Dryft Board, says that it has created a bold new ride form called the Hybrid Board Cross (HBX). And while we’re used to hybrids being an amalgamation of two things—on and off-road for bicycles, and gasoline and electric for cars—the Dryft Board aims to blend much more than just two disciplines.

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