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Posted on August 28, 2008

By biodiversivistRecently, I came across a Time magazine article with the pithy title Electric Bikes Sell as Gas Climbs. (Apparently, for the first time in my life, I'm helping to set a trend instead of being oblivious to it.) Here's a close up of the bike being ridden in the article. It certainly looks cool. I have no idea how well it actually performs other than it takes the standard five hours to charge. From Time: ... sales [of electric bikes in general] are up about 50 percent so far this year over last. Amazon.com Inc. says sales of electric bikes surged more than 6,000 percent in Ju...

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