Traffic is crawling. The radio reports a middle lane breakdown. You are going to be late for an appointment. Massachusetts allows travel in the 'breakdown lane' and that is jammed. How the heck is a tow-truck going to clear the car. Frustrating isn't it?
In your rear view mirror you catch sight of a flashing yellow light approaching. It appears to be weaving in and out of the slow moving traffic. Soon you see it is a motorcycle with a rotating yellow light on the top of the tail trunk.
You pull over and watch as the rider approaches the accident, and begins to unfold something from the back of the bike. He is transforming the motorcycle into a tow-bike! In about 2 minutes he is ready to hook up to the disabled car can tow it away.
A company in Sweden, Coming Through, has developed a motorcycle capable of towing disabled cars. The patented invention was inspired by a child's frustration while stuck in traffic. The story is that he watched as a motorcycle weaved through traffic while a tow-truck was stuck in the stopped traffic. When he asked his father if the motorcycle could pull the car out of the way. His dad simply said that motorcycles didn't tow cars. You know how little kids think. The question was inevitable... Why?
After earning an engineering degree, the young boy remembered that day in his dad's car. He began to build a prototype. Starting with a Honda Goldwing, he designed some innovative hydraulic equipment and the tow-bike and a new company was born.
Check out their website for a gallery of photos and a short movie of the tow-bike in action. www.comingthrough.se