Do you hate to sweat? Don't worry, electric bicycles are here!
Let's shine some light on electric bicycles. "We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue And then we'll take it higher" EddieGrant-Electric Avenue Most of us have heard about electric vehicles of some sort. And a few luckyones have actually seen cool little three or four wheeled cars cruising thestreets, powered by electricity. The technology has, however, remained adistant future despite optimism about its benefits. But before you get upsetand leave your computer in tears, let me give you some good news! Way back in 1997, there were about 340 million cars in the world. Guess how many bicycleswere being ridden...1.4 BILLION. Now that you've shouted at me about never seeing one, you might be saying: "How the heckdo electric bicycles (or e-bikes) work!?" Such abuse...but I'm here to serve. An e-bike is basically a regular bicycle with a battery-powered electric motoradded to it. They can chug along at a good 10 mph without any help from you,but will increase to 15-20 mph with a little pedaling. This is the beauty ofan electric bike. You can still get good exercise and not kill yourself onhills and such. Power is activated by either a switch on the handlebar or inresponse to pedaling. To stop, simply flip the switch or stop pedaling. Youcan then use the hand brakes to stop as you would a normal bicycle. Here's what got me excited about owning one of these. You can adapt anybike you own to electric power! Affordable kits are now sold that will work onany bike. You can install it yourself, or for a small fee have a bicycle shopdo it for you. Many e-bikes are built from the ground up, and have coolfeatures like tail lights. Batteries are cheap to recharge, and take around 8hours to charge, less if you use a quick charger.  More info coming soon... Return From Electric Bicycles to Home Page
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