---
title: "This All-Terrain Snowboard-Meets-Tank Makes The Segway Look Like A Kid’s Toy"
date: "2017-04-03"
modified: "2017-04-03"
authors:
  - name: "Jared Keller"
    job_title: "Former Managing Editor"
    link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/jaredkeller.md"
url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/bpgwerks-dtv-shredder/"
categories:
  - "Tech & Tactics"
  - "Vehicles"
---

# This All-Terrain Snowboard-Meets-Tank Makes The Segway Look Like A Kid’s Toy

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/03/19039622-1.jpg>)

When the Segway first appeared more than 15 years ago, it seemed like a simple, elegant solution to an age-old problem: How to get a single person from point A to point B while exerting the least amount of effort. But there’s a clear problem with these two-wheeled people-movers: No matter how efficient or safe they may be, they’re just too damn ugly. Riding one around anywhere is an invitation to get your lunch money stolen.

Not so with [BPGWerks’s DTV Shredder](<https://bpgwerks.com/>), which looks like something out of Starship Troopers:

The Canadian adventure company’s muscular dual-track beast first appeared at the 2010 Military Vehicles conference in Detroit, billed as a “first response modular platform for soldiers” — the world’s deadliest skateboard, if you will. But after years of development, the company’s taken more of a recreational path, marketing this one-man tank platform as “the first true crossover vehicle for action and power sports.”

They’re not wrong. Powered by a 196cc 4-stroke gasoline engine and padded with reinforced molded rubber tracks, the 280-pound beast has a top speed of 25 mph, fast enough to whisk an infantryman in and out of a tight situation. Recent test footage shows the Shredder, well, shredding the bejesus out of terrain, from forests …

… to fresh snow:

This thing looks like a skateboard and a snowmobile had a baby, and that baby loves to tear off around the surrounding countryside like an adrenaline junky in search of a fix. It’ll cost you [$4,950](<https://bpgwerks.com/>) to get your hands on one of these bad boys, but admit it: You’ve always wanted to do backflips through your local forest, haven’t you?

## Author
Jared Keller is the former managing editor of Task & Purpose. His writing has appeared in Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the New Republic, Pacific Standard, Smithsonian, and The Washington Post, among other publications.

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