Surfer Nat Young hustles and bustles in the coming months
Young had a busy year in 2008, including winning second place in the ASP North American Series, and 2009 doesn’t appear to be slowing down for the 17-year-old Santa Cruz native. …
…Shaun Burns, a junior at Santa Cruz High is one of the many up and coming surfers from the local area. He is noted in the April 2009 issue of Surfing Magazine as…
…Cameron McCaul of Aptos will be featured in the mountain biking film “Seasons.” The 25-minute short film, part of Saturday’s lineup, portrays the “challenges, victories and adventures” of seven of the world’s best mountain bikers over the course of a year. The film is a Special Jury Award winner…Â
A fully self contained bicycle hub motor known as the GreenWheel has been developed by students at MIT that contains the motor, batteries and motor controller all within the hub enclosure. Very similar in concept to the E+ we reported on earlier this week (which we have been informed by a reader is a reincarnation of a Wavecrest Electric bike), but taken one step further by combining the batteries together with the motor in a single hub instead of putting the batteries in the front hub and motor/controller in the rear hub as on the E+.
With the increasing popularity of the electrically assisted pushbike we are starting to see some innovative designs hit the market. While hub motors are the number one solution for mounting the electric motor within a bike frame, either in the front or rear wheel, mounting the battery pack and motor drive electronics has remained a challenge when taking into consideration practically and aesthetics. The folks at Electric Motion Systems think they have the answer with a combination of a 750 watt rear wheel mounted hub motor with built-in motor drive electronics paired with a battery pack mounted in the front wheel hub…Â