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NYCeWheels on Yelp!

January 26, 2011

If you’ve ever searched for a business on Google, chances are you’ve stumbled across a handful of customer reviews. Although you can write a review right there on Google, you can also use a social media website like Yelp to write a review for a business. Personally, I’ve become obsessed with Yelp. You can run [...]

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Comparisons Between the Brompton Bike and Other Folding Bicycles

January 21, 2011

We’ve been touching up some old web pages over the past few months, and I stumbled across a fantastic collection of reviews comparing the Brompton folding bicycle to other popular brands of folding bikes like the Bike Friday, the Birdy, and Dahon bikes. Since most of these reviews were written between 1997-1999, they may not [...]

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Bicycle Books by David Henshaw

January 18, 2011

On a day like today, riding a bicycle is probably the last thing on anyone’s mind. The freezing rain and icy roads can make commuting difficult in a car or on a train, let alone a bike. You may find yourself indoors tonight, curled up by your heater with a good book. For such occasions, [...]

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Ezee Liv Electric Bike Winter Sale!

January 14, 2011

Looking for a good deal on an electric bike? There aren’t a lot of people out there shopping for bikes in January, so we’re offering you a pretty sweet discount on one of our Lithium-powered electric bikes for the winter season. The Ezee Liv electric bike is now available for just $1199 – that’s $300 [...]

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New Year’s Resolution: Ride Every Day

January 8, 2011

Today I learned the ultimate convenience of a folding bike. I set off this morning in the face of another New York blizzard on my trusty Brompton S2L folding bike. I rode about 5 blocks and decided to hop on the subway. Still, my decision to ride a bike to work every day is much [...]

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NYCeWheels Exclusive: The Electric Brompton Folding Bike

December 21, 2010

After years of research and trial and error, we’ve finally come up with an efficient electric motor kit for the Brompton folding bicycle. Using a 250-watt front hub motor that fits nicely into the Brompton fork, Lithium batteries that store inside of the front carrier bag, and a simple thumb throttle, this kit allows the [...]

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NYCeWheels Christmas Holiday

December 20, 2010

It’s the holiday season, and as Christmas draws closer, shopping gets more frantic, more vicious, and wildly entertaining. Though we haven’t seen our customers rip each others’ limbs off, we’ve been selling kick scooter faster than we can count. It’s the perfect gift for the last-minute shopper, plus you can do the remainder of your [...]

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Brompton Bikes at Boynton Beach

December 7, 2010

Before I even start, I don’t think I can stress how great it felt to lay on the beach in the middle of December. While Peter dealt with his flat tire in the freezing rain in New York, I was cruising the Atlantic coast on my Brompton folding bike in Florida. I think I’m going [...]

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Small Business Saturday

November 27, 2010

After wading through hoards of shoppers carrying flat screen TVs and iPad boxes yesterday, just the thought of Black Friday disgusted me. Going to Best Buy at 4 a.m. isn’t exactly my idea of a good time. However, I saw an advertisement for Small Business Saturday and thought, “hey, that’s not a bad idea. Why [...]

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New Video! Peter and the Ezee Forza Sport

November 26, 2010

Peter has been on a video-making rampage lately. Here is his latest creation – a day on the town with the Ezee Forza Sport electric bike. Now, I have a special history with this particular electric bike. For one, it’s the toughest, most durable electric bike for a city commuter. I know for a fact, [...]

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