Tag: BIKES

If you had to choose one bike to ride across the continental U.S., you probably wouldn't choose one named 'Precious.' The moniker doesn't exactly ooze the kind of fearless aggression you'd expect from your riding partner, and, in recent years, it's become more synonymous with slow-moving behemoths than swift speed machines. One 'bike with a brain,' however, is out to debunk all of our ...

A certain segment of the population is currently in love with two forms of transportation: bicycles and anything electric. That demographic, then, will be happy to meet their next enviro-crush: Stephen Britt and his Fast Forward electric bike pedals. According to Britt, the slightly lazy cyclist need do nothing more than replace his old Saucony-platforms with these suckers, and grin as he pumps ...

In the future, tiny bike and the hulking city bus -- currently mortal enemies -- may actually be on the same team. Designer Chiyi Chen's Hybrid2 bike concept is intended to allow the human energy exerted on rented bikes to power fleets of city buses, sans fuel. Essentially, the hybrid rental bikes would work much like hybrid cars: a regenerative braking system would preserve energy for later ...

With the whole world going green, we're seeing less Hummers and more hybrids than ever before--but did you know that there's zero-emissions way to get around using nothing but the power of your legs? Be the envy of your hipster friends with the stylish "Moof" bicycle from industrial design aggregators Areaware, which we recently caught on video. The top tube of this European-style ride has ...

Schwinn has been pretty big on electric bicycles for some time now, but it seems to be particularly excited about its new Tailwind bike, which it says "sets a new standard for the electric bike industry." That boasting is apparently due in large part to the bike's use of Toshiba's newfangled Super Charge ion Battery (or SCiB), which has a promised 30-minute recharge time, or about an eighth of ...

In a somewhat surprising bit of greenish news, Washington D.C. is about to become the first American city with a high-tech bike-sharing program. For 40 bucks a year, SmartBike will let you grab a bike from any of 10 bike stations spread around the city's downtown, which you can then ride for up to three hours (if you want it for longer, you'll need to re-up it at one of the stations). But, ...