When you look at the VoltRider’s marketing materials, the first thing you see is some cheesy comments about “E-grins.” Then you notice that “E-grins” is actually trademarked. They even claim to have gotten the term put into Wikipedia. Now I remember why I never cite Wikipedia as a source.
Read More: A Closer Look At The 2009 VoltRider Electric Bike
Thule has introduced a new bicycle rack for carrying an e-bike on your car. Most people who travel with their bicycles have a bike rack on top of or behind their car for carrying them. Anyone who owns an electric bicycle also knows that they often don’t really fit–or are very heavy to lift into place.
Read More: Thule’s New Bike Rack for Electric Bikes
Occasionally when I’m writing things, especially about new announcements and great products, I wish that I could incorporate sound effects into my posts. You know, Beethoven’s 9th or the theme song from Rocky. On rare occasions, I really wish I could utilize the theme from the greatest TV show of all time: The A-Team.
Bicycle and electric bicycle (e-bike) share programs are becoming pretty popular, especially in Europe. Even here in America where it’s usually all about the car, bike share programs are popping up in New York, San Francisco, LA, and other cities.
Read More: The Citybyke Automated Electric Bicycle Share Program
Yamaha Japan has announced three new electric bicycles for Japanese sales: the PAS Lithium S, the PAS CITY-S, and the PAS CITY-F.
The iZip Express 2009 electric bicycle is a new high-end e-bike from Currie Technologies’ iZip brand. iZip is one of Currie’s two electric bike brands - the other is eZip, which sells lower-priced e-bikes.
The Schwinn Tailwind is the fastest-charging electric bicycle in the world (fully charges in 30 minutes from a standard 110v outlet) and is from one of the world’s most well-known bicycle manufacturers.
Lance Armstrong? Yesterday’s bicycle hero. Today, we have Guim Valls Teruel (say that three times fast) from Spain, though now living in Beijing. His goal is to travel all five continents on his electric bicycle in a project he’s calling the Electric Bicycle World Tour.
Read More: Around The World On An Electric Bicycle
Sanyo and electric stuff go hand-in-hand. They make TVs, juicers, remote controls, stereos, and just about everything else electronic. Now they’re making electric bicycles and, other than the Schwinn, they’re the best-looking electrics I’ve seen.
The new bike, called the Eneloop bike (an electric-hybrid, the hybrid being human pedaling), has some great looks and features. It’s kind of girly, but is the old-style “touring” look that girls and old people really go for.
Read More: Sanyo Enters the Electric Bicycle Market In Style
Training wheels be damned! You too can ride a bike without having to learn to balance it first.
I don’t remember when I learned to ride a bicycle, but I do remember wrecking mine more than once. In fact, looking back, I’m amazed I managed to get through childhood intact, let alone without any major broken bones or serious debilitating injury. Brain damage doesn’t count, so back off.
Read More: The Self-Stabilizing Electric Bicycle
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