Australian tennis player Nick Kyrgios has reportedly been handed more fines for his on-court behaviour than any other player in ATP history. He’s now facing a couple of off-court fines too after a Melbourne e-scooter trip.Kyrgios has variously been fined for unsportsmanlike conduct, abusing a spectator and even for lack of effort.The Guardian reports that … Read more
Mark Drakeford, the First Minister of Wales, has been trialling an e-bike for constituency and personal journeys instead of his car. He sourced the bike via a Sustrans loan scheme.“I have wanted an electric bike for the last two years but finding the time to research it all and turn the idea into reality meant … Read more
Neomouv are a French company who have been making e-bikes for almost 20 years. They are distributed in the UK by Juicy Bike who sell through a nationwide network of retailers. We’ve already reviewed the hybrid Adonis 2 and were impressed, especially with its powerful own-brand mid-drive which also gets the accolade of best own-brand motor in our … Read more
An Exeter Deliveroo rider has posted a shift they did before Christmas to Reddit, asking if the £294.66 they pulled in is “some sort of record.” A bigger question for us is how they managed to deliver the 56 orders by e-bike.It’s not that e-bikes aren’t good for deliveries – quite the opposite – it’s … Read more
Last week we reported on the CYC Photon mid-drive e-bike conversion kit. On paper it certainly sounded impressive, its 3.3kg weight and 110Nm claimed torque and max 750-att output meaning it has one of the highest power to weight ratios for any (potentially) UK-legal motor out there. The CYC Photon motor kit is now available for … Read more
Bike Europe recently reported that Amprio has confirmed it has been taken over by SRAM. Industry insiders say that SRAM is now taking serious action to join the e-bike boom.At this stage little more hard information is known other than that e-mailing Amprio – a German defence manufacturer who branched out to manufacture an e-bike mid-drive … Read more
The majority of Britishvolt’s 300 employees have been made redundant due to “insufficient equity investment” in the electric vehicle (EV) battery start-up. Britishvolt had secured around £100m in government funding for its planned ‘gigafactory’ on the site of the former Blyth Power Station coal stocking yard in Cambois, but reportedly failed to hit agreed construction … Read more
By their nature, folding bikes are easily transportable, and electric folding bikes (for the most part), are the same, albeit with a few extra kilos. These types of e-bikes work well as multi-modal commuting bikes, or as standalone runaround types. The compactness varies, as does the type of fold the frame uses, but you can … Read more
Why design an e-bike from scratch when you could instead repurpose your old mopeds and motorbikes? That appears to be the thinking behind Honda’s Cub e:, Dax e: and ZOOMER e:.The three bikes, which are to be sold in China, are built to fit the country’s electric bicycle (EB) category. This is broadly equivalent to … Read more
