This Pricey Little Electric Motorcycle Is Basically Three Vehicles In One

The tallest hurdle faced by the electric motorcycle industry is just getting riders to spend their hard-earned cash. Battery bikes have outrageous power and there are range options to suit just about any rider, but getting customers onto saddles remains challenging. One company has an interesting new electric motorcycle that could be a fun answer to that conundrum. The Avvenire Combat is a city motorcycle with a trick feature that turns it into a snowmobile or a mini tank-track off-roader with just basic tools – but there’s a twist in that the price just doesn’t seem to work.

One of the more disappointing parts about the powersports industry as a whole is that nearly every vehicle on offer, from snowmobiles and motorcycles to ATVs and side-by-sides, just costs so much money. Unless you’re buying a motorcycle like a Royal Enfield, a CFMoto, or a Honda MiniMoto, you’re going to pay a lot of cash. If you want a cool ATV or a snowmobile, you’ll have to plunk down even more dough. Understandably, a lot of folks who want to enjoy all sorts of motorsport fun can’t afford to buy a bunch of different toys. For those who can afford to splurge on a fleet of toys, storing them becomes another issue. I have no idea where I’d even put a snowmobile.

One company, Avvenire, wants to sell a weird three-in-one vehicle, the Combat — a motorcycle that you could totally ride around a city. It’s a minibike, but it’s also a snowmobile, and it’s technically a little ATV, too. Motorcycle websites have been covering this little Honda Grom-like bike, so I’m taking a look, too.

The All-In-One Bike

The Avvenire Combat starts off life as a street-legal, low-speed motorcycle that’s best compared to a moped or one of those urban-only sit-down scooters.

There’s a 6.7 HP electric motor and a 3.6 kWh lithium battery. Those aren’t particularly thrilling specs, but those parts are good for a top speed of 37 mph and a range of 43 miles. In other words, this is most comparable to an urban electric scooter or a neighborhood electric vehicle.

The usefulness of the motorcycle goes up a bit with its minibike-style fat all-terrain tires. This will allow you to use your Combat as a trail bike or a minibike.

This bike appears to be sized similar to a Honda Grom, and its weight of 242 pounds is pretty close, too. Normally, here’s where this story would end. Heck, I wouldn’t even normally write about this because it’s just not much of a motorcycle.

However, as I mentioned before, there’s a twist in that it’s a multifunctional bike. Avvenire says that with a basic tool kit you can swap the front tire for a ski and swap the rear wheel for a track system. The idea here is that when winter comes around, you can mount the ski and the track and enjoy a compact snowbike. That’s pretty neat!

Avvenire also offers the possibility of leaving the front tire on (instead of throwing on a ski) and putting the track in the back, creating a monster minibike that you could take through mud and other obstacles. In essence, you’re getting about three vehicles in one, and this is a little bike that you can keep using no matter the weather; I like that.

This whole system works because the bike is ridiculously simple. The tiny front wheel is held on with just a couple of nuts. Take those out, store the brake caliper in the body, and then put the ski on. I will note that other snowbike conversions tend to use more substantial metal on their skis. I would probably avoid trying to get any sick airtime here.

Fitting the track appears to be a little more involved, but we’re told it’s still a pretty simple process that you could do with whatever tools you already have lying around.

From Canada, Sort Of

According to Avvenire’s website, the company hails from Toronto, Canada. It’s only fitting that something like this would come from Canada, as our friends to the north really like taking weird vehicles out onto their roads and into their wilderness.

Avvenire is a sort of bizarre brand. It was founded by Aldo Baiocchi, the same guy behind Daymak, a company that claims to be the largest distributor of low-emission vehicles in Canada. According to Financial Post, Daymak was founded in 2001 after Baiocchi found himself wanting to buy an electric scooter for his daughter. Baiocchi couldn’t find any locally in Canada, so he bought an entire container of electric scooters from overseas and tried to import it into Canada. Unfortunately, Baiocchi wasn’t aware of import regulations at the time, and the authorities ended up seizing the contents of the container. Not willing to give up, Baiocchi turned to his computer science background to develop his own electric bikes.

Since then, Daymak says it proudly designs and builds its products in Canada. I must note a caveat, however. While it sounds like Daymak does its own design, at least some of Daymak’s major components are sourced from China.

The folks of Autoevolution noticed the presence of “Made In China” stickers on the Daymak EM2 motorcycle (above), and I noticed some weirdness with the Boomerbuggy X Pro (below). I have seen many of these little four-wheeled mobility scooters with the same body for sale online and even scooting around retirement communities in Florida from dozens of different brands.

The products themselves can also get a little weird. The Daymak EM2 looks like a real motorcycle and is priced like the cheapest real motorcycles. But it’s really just an electric motorcycle in appearance. This thing uses a 500W motor and a 72V 32AH battery, so it’s not going very fast or very far. Then look at the pegs. Yep, Daymak slapped a laughably tiny pedal and chain system onto the bike’s final drive, allowing the motorcycle-shaped EM2 to be classified as an eBike.

As a final note, there used to be a lot of complaints online about the quality of Daymak products and the efficacy of the company’s customer service. One blogger went as far to allege safety issues with their Daymak Boomerbeast. However, to Daymak’s credit, it appears that complaints have dropped sharply in recent years.

I’m noting this because, while Avvenire seems to put itself out there as a separate company, the company’s early press releases from back in 2021 identified it as “Daymak Avvenire” and that the former company was securing pre-orders for the latter company. Avvenire itself might be even weirder than Daymak. The company says it has a little bit of everything in development from an electric three-wheel car to an electric “flying car” and lots of pitches between. Of the long list of products, only the Combat has a firm delivery date, which is this February.

I have reached out to Avvenire regarding quality concerns and to get an exact explanation of where this bike comes from. Avvenire has this to say about the bike’s origins:

[W]hile the Combat is designed and assembled in Canada, it’s true that some components may be sourced from global suppliers, including China. We always aim to balance quality with efficiency to provide the best possible product to our customers.

We absolutely recognize the importance of this, and we’re fully committed to delivering high-quality products. The Avvenire line has undergone significant improvements over the past few years, with a strong focus on rigorous quality control and better materials. We’ve learned a lot from past feedback, and moving forward, we’re prioritizing both the design and manufacturing processes to ensure a premium experience for our customers.

A Pricy Little Steed

If you’re interested, Avvenire says it’ll sell you a Combat for $7,999 that will be delivered to you by the end of February. If you want to wait to see if these have any chance at living up to their promise, Avvenire says the regular price is $9,999.

Update: I wrote this before the 25 percent tariffs were signed in. Slap the tariff on there and I’m not sure if there’s a compelling reason at all to buy one on this side of the border.

It should be noted that snowbike kits do exist and you can turn a much faster dirt bike into a snowbike for cheaper than the Avvenire Combat. The biggest advantage, or at least based on how it’s advertised, is that the Combat is compact and the conversion process is supposed to be really quick. Is that worth $10,000? I would say slash that price in half and they’d have something really cool.

I really, desperately, want to cheer on this multi-purpose motorcycle. I’d love a tiny bike that my wife and I could chuck in the back of a truck for some weekend fun no matter the season. But I’m not sold on this one. Still, it’s a really fun idea and I’d love to try one just to see how silly it is to ride.

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