Want to meet a bunch of random strangers everywhere you go?
Start riding around on a neon green electric bicycle that looks
like nothing this world has seen before, something tossed out of
a passing UFO that some New Zealand shepherd found glowing
slightly as it rested in the middle of a smoking crater. This
$3,595 electric bicycle with a 15mph top speed and six mile
range does come from New Zealand, but the YikeBike is very much
a product of human ingenuity, or so creator Grant Ryan claims,
but that doesn't stop it from giving us a riding experience that
is nothing short of other-worldly. Unfortunately, that doesn't
necessarily equate to a entirely perfect experience.   See all
photos  42 Photos  A penny-farthing for these times  Yeah, we're
not particularly keen on the name "YikeBike" either; it sounds
like a Ferengi gambling term or an epithet hurled in some harsh
foreign language. Over the course of our testing we were asked
many times "What is that thing?" Each time we responded with
"YikeBike" the follo