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Electric Bikes and DUI
By federal law, you do not need a drivers license to ride an electric bike. Electric bikes have always been a safe haven for someone who has lost their drivers license to a DUI. With an electric...
View ArticleOptibike Announces the $6,000 M4
Optibike (of boulder Colorado) who is known for their $12,000 high-end electric bikes that are made in the USA, has just released a new model, the M4. The most notable feature of the M4 is its price at...
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Edgerunner, E-cargobike from Xtracycle
Xtracycle is a company that initially became famous for making an accessory that attaches to the rear of a standard bike frame to make it a longtail cargobike. They still make and sell that part...
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M55 Ebike Video Glimpses
One of the most exciting and elusive electric bikes on the market is the $40,000 full suspension, mid drive M55 (read our story here). Up until last year we knew very little about this ebike except...
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Mid Drive Haibike Ebike Climbs Steepest Track Imaginable (VIDEO)
Every once in a great while a great ebike video will hit YouTube. Audi Ebike was one, Specialized Turbo was another. Now Haibike has released an outstanding video of their bike climbing a steep ski...
View ArticleMainstream Bicycle Media Warming to E-bikes
I was looking at the April 2013 issue of the Bicycling magazine buyers guide today (25 Feb). I was pleasantly surprised to find an E-bike section that listed 4 bikes, and also a full-page review of the...
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FFR TRIKES Changes Name To OUTRIDER USA
Last summer, FFR Trikes dominated the Pikes Peak bicycle race in Colorado (read story). In the last few weeks, the organizers of the ”Pikes Peak Cycling Hill Climb” have announced that there will be...
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Sneak Peek: Hanebrink Bear Cat
Dan Hanebrink, has been busy building new prototype fat electric bikes. Until recently most of these prototypes have been focused on high performance (and expensive) ebikes. Last year he announced the...
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BH E-Motion Adds Mid Drive to its Line-up
Written by Ron/Spinningmagnets, May 2013 BH is a European bike company that was founded in 1909, and this last year we have been stumbling across various E-bikes that they have started to carry as part...
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Stealth Bomber Releases Epic Video
The ebike industry has not had many good Youtube videos to speak of…Much of that is because very few ebikes are designed with the performance market in mind. Performance is what looks good on Youtube....
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Geoby, one of Chinas biggest suppliers of generic E-bikes
Written June 2013 by Ron/Spinningmagnets The vast majority of electric bike parts are made in China, and most of the type that are exported to North America are made around the city of Shenzhen (near...
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Volton Electric Bikes
Written by Ron/spinningmagnets, July 2013 Stromer introduced the ST1 recently, and the mainstream bicycle magazines actually wrote favorable articles about it (see our review of the Stromer here)....
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Harrison E-bikes, boardtrack racers from Finland
Written by Ron/Spinningmagnets, July 2013 In the 1910′s to 1920′s, there was a popular style of motorcycle racing on oval tracks with steeply curved banks which allowed high speeds to be maintained in...
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Derby Cycle Electric Bike Expo
Originally posted from Brett Thurber of the New Wheel electric bike shop in San Francisco. Derby Cycles throws one hell of a party. From morning to night, for two weeks, Derby Cycle Werke, the factory...
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Trek and others add more Bosch mid-drive models
Written by Ron/Spinningmagnets August 2013 In the power-limited markets of Europe and Asia, the mid-drive market last year made it clear that the there were going to be two big players who were in the...
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Eurobike 2013 Electric Bikes
Written by Ron / Spinningmagnets, September 2013 The majority of pics are courtesy of mbaction.com Well, Eurobike 2013 has ended, and E-bikes were well-represented this year. It is held every year in...
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Currie Announces Awesome 2014 Ebike Line Up
Currie Technologies is currently the largest electric bike manufacturer in the United States, and has been in the electric bike building business longer than any American company that I know of. In...
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FFR TRIKES Changes Name To OUTRIDER USA
Last summer, FFR Trikes dominated the Pikes Peak bicycle race in Colorado (read story). In the last few weeks, the organizers of the ”Pikes Peak Cycling Hill Climb” have announced that there will be...
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Eurobike 2013 Electric Bikes
Written by Ron / Spinningmagnets, September 2013 We initially published this article with several pictures from mbaction.com, because we could not attend Eurobike this year in person. Even though we...
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Retail electric bike top-speed of 28-MPH, a new US-legal strategy
Written by Ron/Spinningmagnets October 2013 Recently, at the September Interbike-2013 in Las Vegas, three big players in the E-bike market provided test-rides on production models of their E-bikes that...
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