{"id":36858,"date":"2010-09-07T19:48:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T02:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=36858"},"modified":"2010-09-07T19:48:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T02:48:53","slug":"the-pg-bikes-blacktrail-worlds-fastest-ebike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=36858","title":{"rendered":"The PG-Bikes BlackTrail &#8211; world&#8217;s fastest ebike!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no secret that as gas prices soar and battery technology evolves, electric bikes are fast becoming the next big two-wheeled thing. That trend is clearly evidenced by the strong showing ebikes are making at this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Eurobike trade show, currently taking place in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Over the next several days, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be showing you a few examples that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve spotted at the show, but to start things off&#8230; well, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s kick out the jams and go with the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh come on, you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be serious\u00e2\u20ac\u009d ebike. It called the BlackTrail, and with a top speed of 100 km\/h (62 mph), it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s officially the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fastest electric bicycle \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and probably the most awesome-looking, to boot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The BlackTrail is the result of a collaboration between two German companies, namely PG-Bikes and carbon fiber products developer UBC, which also designs parts for Formula 1 race cars and Porsche Carrera GTs\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/blacktrail-worlds-fastest-ebike\/16290\/\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no secret that as gas prices soar and battery technology evolves, electric bikes are fast becoming the next big two-wheeled thing. That trend is clearly evidenced by the strong showing ebikes are making at this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Eurobike trade show, currently taking place in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Over the next several days, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be showing you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,69,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-electric-vehicles","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36858","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=36858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36859,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36858\/revisions\/36859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}