Cake’s electrical motorcycles look exactly like you’d expect high-end products from Swedish designers to look: slick, utilitarian and minimalist. So who better to customize one than Germany’s Hookie Co."
The Dresden-based custom house is known for their sharp eye and fresh style?and they’re familiar with Cake’s drivetrains. Their otherworldly Tardigrade moon rover concept is Cake-powered, and they’ve produced a bolt-on kit for Cake’s Ösa electric utility bike. Now they’ve taken the second concept further, with an Ösa-based drag racer.

The idea of a silent drag race might sound weird, but that’s exactly what’s happening this September. The massive Glemseck 101 festival is finally back after a long pandemic-induced hiatus?and it now includes an electrics-only race. Hookie Co. will be lining up on this sharp little whip, dubbed the ‘Silver Ant.’ Hookie Co. picked the up-specced Ösa+ model for their build. Cake pitch it as being equivalent to a 125 cc petrol-powered scoot, with a 10 kW motor and a top speed of 90 km/h [56 mph]. But this one’s a little quicker.

Hookie have ripped into the controller software to eke out as much power as possible. They’re still tuning it, but they know what their goal is; 160 km/h [100 mph].
It’s not just about top speed though. The acceleration curve on this Ösa+ is way different from stock, and the engine braking’s been adjusted to the ...