One of the basic reasons why people prefer cars over scooters apart from safety and comfort is the simple fact that a car offers a roof. It offers a shelter from the burning sun and the pouring shower. But then, modern bikes are about to change that notion. More importantly, modern scooters are about to change the traditional view on design and the outer structure of a scooter. Conventions are being altered and traditions are being broken with changing technology and growing consumer demands.
The Adiva 250 and it’s a convertible, featuring a fully retractable roof and a windshield complete with a wiper. It sports foldaway roof stows in the top box compartment, which probably end up taking a fair bit of luggage space with it, but then you can remove it entirely on nice days. Apparently the original patent design also shows some sort of bodywork extending a rail across the side of the bike to help deal with falls and side impacts, but it seems these haven’t made it to the version that is about to hit the roads.
The Adiva is fairly good bike with a concept that is not the most modern or the first in business. But what it does is provide some amount of novelty to the industry that more or less struggles to produce innovative designs and varied options to the ordinary customer. But then even the Adiva is for the no ordinary customer. It is priced at £4999 and that is surely a price not many would be willing to pay for a scooter which has an umbrella on top. Moreover, someone still owes me an explanation about this whole ‘price setting methods’ that we have these days. Why not just say the scooter costs £5000 and do away with the 9’s? Anyway, it might be a scooter that is priced to high to have any substantial commercial success, but the concept is fine.
