The history of the bicycle is extraordinary, things have certainly come on a long way in 200 years.
I was surprised to find out whilst making this, that the battery was invented before the bicycle.
I think that puts in perspective how slow the development of bicycles was back then, even during a time where motor vehicles were starting to emerge.
Recently, electric bicycles have seen some extraordinary leaps in development.
We decided to embraced this new technology, attempting to show that these e-bikes are more agile than people think.
Electric-powered cars are now the rage. Tesla’s market capitalization is seven times larger than that of General Motors and fourteen times larger than Ford’s, though it builds a fraction of the vehicles that those companies do. Many politicians are even considering banning gasoline-powered cars within a few years in favor of electric vehicles (EVs), all in the name of saving the planet.
This has significant meaning to me. As a third-generation automobile dealer, I need to get ahead of the curve and prepare for what is next. I want to sell what people want to buy. I have driven the Volkswagen Golf EV, the Honda Clarity plug-in (PEV), and now the Hyundai Kona EV. All have good … More
We head to Wales to check out the Redbull Hardline course for this years mad event and see what insane changes we can come up with. We stop in at Tahnee Seagrave’s house and she takes us out to some of the sickest steel loamy trails ever on the E bikes! – Bernard Kerr