Bruin Bergmeester, a resident of a small village in the Valthe region of the Netherlands, built the world’s first walking bicycle and named his bike Lopifit. This strange car was born quite by accident when he was exercising on the treadmill and suddenly thought: “why don’t I take this treadmill out on the street?”

Mr. Bruin Bergmeester on his walking bike.

And so he set out to build a car with a combination of bicycle wheels, an electric scooter engine, and a treadmill platform. It is with this strange combination that the Lopifit has attracted a lot of attention from people in the region.

Mr. Bruin Bergmeester’s wife initially did not pay much attention to his project but later she became fascinated by this car.

The principle of operation of the Lopifit walking bike is quite simple, the driver just needs to walk on the engine floor of the vehicle, the transmission will convert the kinetic energy of the footsteps into the speed to move the bike. However, due to the heavy weight of the car, Mr. Bruin Bergmeester has added an electric motor behind to assist the driver to make traveling on the vehicle lighter.

The video below records the scene of Mr. Bruin Bergmeester and his wife using a walking bicycle in daily life: