How To Ride An E-Mountain Bike – Chapter 3: Assisted Living
This is the most important chapter in our series and this is the most-important tip: Think of the motor as a gentle push on your back, not a kick in the butt. Treat the motor…
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How To Ride An E-Mountain Bike – Chapter 4: Climbing To The Top
Climbing is when you realize your E-mountain bike is worth its weight in gold. There is nothing more exhilarating than hitting a climb at a tempo and pace that an Olympic cyclist would struggle to…
How To Ride An E-Mountain Bike – Chapter 5: Descending
If you choose the proper cog, you shouldn’t need any motor assist at all on a descent but your E-mountain bike gives you a distinct advantage over non-motorized mountain bikes: A lower center of gravity.…
How To Ride An E-Mountain Bike – Chapter 6: Cornering
Riding an E-mountain bike is different from riding a non-motorized mountain bike and nowhere is that more obvious than in corners. Doesn’t matter if you are going up, down or on level ground. Please refer…
How To Ride An E-Mountain Bike – Chapter 7: Trail Obstacles
Encountering obstacles along the trail may be the one time you find yourself wishing for a non-motorized mountain bike. What are obstacles? We are talking about the occasional curb-sized rock, water bar, rain rut, downed…
Why I Avoid Driving In LA At All Costs
Just Another LA Day: Yellow means traffic is moving slow and red means it is a parking lot. At least it slows down high-speed pursuits. Too bad that L.A.'s ambitious bicycle infrastructure, like the California…
SUV Driver Chasing Bike Rider Hit With Serious Charges
Click Orlando.com is reporting that an SUV driver, who felt a cyclists was riding too fast on a bike path, entered the bike path in her vehicle and came within feet of bumping into the…
Fly E-Bike Caught Using Counterfeit UL Certification Logos
Major props to STREETBLOGNYC for their investigative journalism into Fly E-bike. Fly E-bike's safety issues were well documented by STREETBLOGNYC even after being told by the New York City Department of Transportation that their coverage…
Another Prestige E-Bike Brand Recalls Bikes Due To Fire Concern
While battery “experts” and e-bike retailers continue to deflect blame of e-bike battery fires to low-quality batteries imported from China, another recall clearly contradicts their assertions. The latest recall is from Santa Cruz Bicycles, hardly…