Porch Bandits Thwarted By Tech Genius
If you have ever been a victim of a porch bandit (the time your brake pads where delivered but never received), you will enjoy what the ingenious Mark Rober designed to take revenge. https://youtu.be/xoxhDk-hwuo
Category: E-bikes
Volkswagen Bends The Truth Again – This Time With Their New Cargo eBike
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles showed the brand's electric-motorized cargo bike for the first time in North America at the L.A. Auto Show. Volkswagen, still reeling from their emissions scandal, is claiming the Cargo e-Bike concept is…
UPDATE: E-Bikes Not Only Electric Vehicle To Poise Fire Hazards – The Finger Pointing Begins
November 3, 2018: Gizmodo is reporting that Segway, the supplier of the Lime Bikes scooters that have caught fire or overheated, fired off a response today that, while not mentioning Lime Bikes directly, points the…
New York Post’s Steve Cuozzo Anti-Cycling Rant Hurts Everyone
Steve Cuozzo's editorial against the use of bicycles in New York City is so misguided that, as a cyclist, it is hard to read it or take it seriously. There may be some valid points…
Trek Powerfly 5 Stolen During “Test Ride” and I Found My Favorite New Newspaper
It is a total bummer that a hard-working bike shop owner was duped out of a brand-new Trek Powerfly 5 after a customer taking a test spin decided not to return. He still might return…
Enter To Win An iZip E3 Moda E-Bike By Taking A Survey
A bicycle trade organization, People For Bikes, is offering riders a chance to win an iZip E3 E-bike (valued at $3749 but being blown out by iZip for $2999) for taking a rider survey that…
Clean Republic’s Hill Topper E-bike Kits Recalled Due To Unintended Acceleration
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a product recall for Clean Republic’s Hill Topper E-bike Controllers due to reports of unintended motor acceleration after water had penetrated the controllers. Clean Republic, based in Seattle,…
Specialized E-Bike Advertisement Debunks Proponents’ Low-Speed Claim
The Specialized advertisement that pits their Turbo e-bike against a bicycle has got to be the weirdest advertisement Specialized has produced since their high-speed police pursuit video. It sends a message that must have e-bike…
E-Bike Storage Facility Destroyed By Massive Fire, Releases Toxic Smoke
Stella Fietsen, a bicycle company located in the Netherlands, suffered a devastating fire in their e-bike and e-bike battery storage facility. European News reports that the fire broke out around 2:30 p.m. in a store…
NASA’s E-Bike “To Boldly Go Where No Bike Has Gone Before”
The NASA lunar e-bike prototype was said to be developed in the event of the lunar rover vehicle not being ready for the Apollo missions of 1972 and 1973. The moon scooter didn't need to be…