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A Pro Cyclist’s Perspective on Electric Bikes – Interview with Rahsaan Bahati [VIDEO]

July 31, 2017 by Pete 1 Comment

Rahsaan Bahati is a seven-time US championship professional cyclist who currently provides coaching to bike racers and supports inner city youth with his Bahiti Foundation.

And he is all about eBikes!

I had a chance to interview Rahsaan about his 21 year racing career and get his perspective on eBikes.

Also, Rahsaan recently received a custom Raleigh Redux iE with drop bars to fit his racer riding style as he commutes around the Los Angeles area. The included video will give you a closer look at this speedy eBike!
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Find & Share Electric Mountain Bike Trails & Rides

March 29, 2017 by Guest Leave a Comment

By Morgan Lommele from PeopleForBikes

PeopleForBikes and the Bicycle Product Suppliers Association are working to promote better access to eMTBs.

To that end, we are cataloguing great eMTB rides throughout the U.S.

Help us find eMTB rides in your area by describing your favorite route on this form, and we’ll continue to catalogue these rides on the eMTB Map. [Read more…]

Cool Bike Infrastructure: Solar & Glowing Paths, Super Bikeways, Underground Parking & More! [VIDEOS]

October 27, 2016 by Pete 3 Comments

There is always something new with electric bike technology but it is also exciting to see what is happening with improvements in bicycle infrastructure.

You might initially think of protected bike paths that separate auto traffic from bike traffic.

People for Bikes put together this video [Read more…]

UPDATED: Interview with eBike Adventurer Susanne Brüsch: Sand to Snow in the USA [VIDEOS]

September 24, 2016 by Pete 9 Comments

Susanne Brüsch is an adventurer at heart.

She jumped into the electric bike industry in Europe nearly 20 years ago when eBikes were just barely a blip on the radar in the European marketplace.

After working through the trials and tribulations of the young industry she set her sights on electric bike adventure tours to show the world what electric bikes are capable of.

With her company Pedelec Adventures, she has had amazing eBike adventures in Morocco, Mongolia, Iceland, many parts of Europe, the Southwestern USA, and a soon to be extensive trip through other parts of Africa.

I had a chance to catch up with Susanne after her recent Sand to Snow eBike adventure [Read more…]

The Statistics of the E-Bike Cycle Tourists Record Breaking Journey

August 29, 2016 by Gary Corbett 2 Comments

By Gary Corbett

In many ways it is hard to believe, but the E-Bike Cycle Tourists quest to set a new world e-bike long distance record in mainland Europe and the UK has come to a successful conclusion after e-biking 27,800kms over the past 16 months.

The journey, which took us through 13 countries from London in April 2015 through to Friedrichshafen in Germany in August 2016, not only smashed the previous record of 16,047kms, but hopefully set a new challenging benchmark for someone else to better. [Read more…]

E-Bike Cycle Tourists Documentary Shows the Way for Cycle Tourists of All Ages [VIDEO]

August 22, 2016 by Gary Corbett 2 Comments

By Gary Corbett

Over five extremely enjoyable days in June the E-Bike Cycle Tourists had a taste of what it is like to be budding film stars during the shooting of a short documentary about our world record breaking e-bike journey.

The documentary, which was filmed by brothers Piers and Luke Spencer-Phillips for our major sponsors Haibike, explored the story behind our decision to sell all of our worldly possessions to essentially live the life of e-bike nomads.

While the eight minute-long documentary is an amazing record of our once-in-a-lifetime journey, more importantly, we believe, is the fact that it highlights everything that is great about modern-day e-bikes. [Read more…]

Colorado Divide Electric Bike Adventure to 11,500 ft.

August 16, 2016 by Guest 2 Comments

colorado divide electric bike 6 By Charlie Gandy.

There is a place at 11,500’ elevation, deep in the heart of the Colorado Rockies, that I want to tell you about.

This place requires some mountaineering chutzpah to get to, and some high altitude attitude to thrive in.

So this time I got there, and back, on Tempo’s Carmel electric hybrid bike, and am inspired to share this story. [Read more…]

How Efficient Can an Electric Bike Be? [VIDEO]

August 10, 2016 by Pete 3 Comments

How efficient can an electric bike be?

With the right conditions, bike engineer Zach Krapfl, says they can get the equivalent of up to 1,340 miles per gallon!

Zach Krapfl is passionate about efficient modes of transportation and energy conservation and his recent TEDx presentation in Paonia, Colorado is very educational and entertaining.

Zach works with Felt Electric on their eBike line up.

Enjoy this video of Zach’s TEDx presentation:

“Change in Your Transportation Future”

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E-Bike Cycle Tourists Named as ‘Haibike Heroes’

July 27, 2016 by Gary Corbett 7 Comments

By Gary Corbett

As the E-Bike Cycle Tourists have clearly discovered over the past few months, it is amazing what can happen if you persevere at a passion in life for long enough.

Take our ongoing world e-bike long distance ride as a classic case in point.

Not even in our wildest dreams did we ever expect to be still pedalling our Haibike xDuro Trekking e-bikes 15 months and 25,700 kilometres after setting out from London in April, 2015.

Basically the goal was to better the existing world e-bike long distance record of 16,047kms, have a great time exploring mainland Europe and the UK and then head back to Australia after 12 or so months.

But clearly that isn’t how things have panned out. [Read more…]

A Short Weekend Electric Bike Tour of the Finger Lakes [VIDEO]

July 19, 2016 by Troy Rank 1 Comment

By Troy Rank

A few weeks back I ran into my buddy Bryan while commuting home from work. After exchanging some typical DIY E-bike chatter about connector doo-dads and DC-DC converter hacks, Bryan mentioned that he wanted to do some touring of the finger lakes sometime soon.

Itching to break out my old-dog of an E-bike touring rig, I accepted a challenge and we hashed plan to head to Ithaca for the weekend. [Read more…]