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Bert Cebular

Electric bike kit: Not Your grandfather’s motor bicycle!

May 4, 2010

That’s a pretty funny looking bike, huh? The motor attached like a side car isn’t from any electric bike kit, it’s a Smith Motor Wheel. This gas powered wheel motor looks pretty heavy, and I’m sure I’d go deaf if I had to ride it more than a few minutes. This bike is a restoration [...]

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May Is Bike Month!

April 30, 2010

Whether you ride a mountain bike, road bike, recumbent bike, folding bike, or electric bike, this month is for you! Transportation Alternatives put together an awesome calendar of events, so check out their website and see all of the fun Bike Month events they have planned! Also don’t forget about our Brompton folding bike workshop, [...]

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People For Bikes

April 26, 2010

A new organization called People for Bikes is gaining a lot of attention lately for their petition to integrate bicycling into our daily lives. Even Lance Armstrong is tweeting about their site. Their purpose? Getting more people riding bikes every day for their daily transportation. Be sure to sign the pledge and tell your local [...]

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The most powerful electric bike?

April 12, 2010

What is the most powerful electric bike? Well, the Killacycle is a good start. Oh, you meant what is the most powerful electric bike that can be used on streets? According to the law, 750 watt and 20 mph is the cap. Or did you mean what is the most powerful electric bike that rides [...]

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IF Reach DC | an amazing electric folding bike

April 8, 2010

We recently received the new IF Reach DC electric folding bike for testing. It was crazy busy in the shop and then it was raining for a few days but I finally had time to take it for a spin past Sunday. I usually take my new bikes to Central Park, its traffic free, so [...]

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Our Brompton folding bike custom color tool!

April 5, 2010

Everyone wants the worlds coolest looking bike, that means something that stands out and catches the eye. Most bikes come in only a few factory colors: red, blue, grey, black… Where is the fun in that? Who wants to ride around with the same old colors as everybody else? The folks at Brompton folding bikes [...]

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April Fool’s Day!

April 2, 2010

You may have noticed a few headlines on our website yesterday that were a bit…surprising. To say the least. So I’m here to dispel the rumors: No. There is no electric bike that will run 100 miles on human urine. Get real. You really think people are going to stop in the middle of a [...]

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Brompton US Championship | folding bike race video

March 29, 2010

You can now learn about our Philadelphia excursion to the Brompton US Championship, Gary’s race report, pictures and the high speed racing video. This Brompton US Championship page will be continually updated as we receive more footage from this exciting weekend – so be sure to check back. Bert has been furiously editing together the [...]

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Fixing the Great Mistake of building cities around cars

March 10, 2010

Paul Steely White, Transportation Alternatives director and a NYCeWheels folding bike customer shows how Park Avenue was meant to be and use to be. TA’s summer streets program closes down Park avenue to automobile traffic for 3 Saturdays in August and makes it available for street life. Everyone loves it but yet everything goes back [...]

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Me Write Good electric bike Stuff, You Read

March 9, 2010

Our basement full of unpaid interns are only allowed to see the light of day when they finish a well-researched article about  electric bikes and folding bikes. Come to think of it, I haven’t filled the food dish down there for a few days. I wonder how they’re doing. Here are some of the latest [...]

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