{"id":136630,"date":"2017-10-21T10:37:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T17:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=136630"},"modified":"2017-10-21T10:37:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T17:37:37","slug":"why-e-mountain-bikes-are-big-in-europe-but-not-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=136630","title":{"rendered":"Why e-Mountain Bikes Are Big in Europe, but not North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"field-dek\"><em>E-mountain biking isn&#8217;t as popular in North America as it is across the pond\u2014yet. Here&#8217;s what could be coming.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At Eurobike, Pivot made news with the launch of its Shuttle e-bike, essentially a motorized version of its popular Switchblade\u00a0(which we once called the Holy Grail of trail bikes). Crowds gathered to gawk the entire show for all kinds of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Pivot founder Chris Cocalis kicked off a few things that make the Shuttle different than many of its competitors: geometry, suspension tuning, and other technical details that set it apart. But the biggest reason is that it exists at all\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bicycling.com\/bikes-gear\/why-e-mountain-bikes-are-big-in-europe-but-not-north-america\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked New<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-mountain biking isn&#8217;t as popular in North America as it is across the pond\u2014yet. Here&#8217;s what could be coming. At Eurobike, Pivot made news with the launch of its Shuttle e-bike, essentially a motorized version of its popular Switchblade\u00a0(which we once called the Holy Grail of trail bikes). Crowds gathered to gawk the entire show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,69,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-electric-vehicles","category-mt-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136631,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136630\/revisions\/136631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}