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(Follow up article to the Kickstarter campaign announcement.) We spoke to Ying-Tsao Tan to find out more about the development process behind the latest pedelec to be added the range. Ying-Tsao Tan and the VIT-S Pedelecs has just covered the Kickstarter launch of the VIT-S. Much has been...

Momentum Electric are the latest electric bike manufacturer to capitalize on the reach of Kickstarter, launching their VIT-S, an electric bike first unveiled in the UK at the NEC Cycle Show. Featuring a mid-drive motor, the latest model in the Momentum Electric range is also styled for urban...

The latest trading update from cycle giant, Accell Group, attributes 2016’s third quarter increase to higher electric bike sales, particularly e-MTBs. The statistics favourably pitch the third quarter of 2016 against Accell’s track record for the same period in 2015, despite the added...

Oxford Brookes University led a three-year study into supporting and prolonging cycling among the UK’s older population, the key recommendations of which have just been published. A representative for the University said: “The research has found that older people who currently cycle, or who...

Richard Thorpe is the design engineer behind Karbon Kinetics, the UK based manufacturer of the Gocycle. Founding the company in 2002, Thorpe had a vision for capitalising on his 25 years’ experience in the motorsports industry to produce an innovative electric bike, the first incarnation of...

Accell Group have appointed Larry Pizzi to head up the newly established Raleigh Electric company in north America. While Raleigh electric bikes have been retailed through Accell North America since 2014, the Group believes re-structuring to form Raleigh Electric as a standalone business in the...

Exeter has this week seen the launch of self-service e-bike hire for the public from on-street docking stations. Co-bikes are the organization spearheading the city’s new network of docking stations, each hosting 4-8 bikes. Rising to the challenge of sustainable connectivity for the...

Karbon Kinetics Ltd has just announced its North American Kickstarter campaign to launch a new entry level model: the Gocycle GS. Richard Thorpe, founder and designer of Gocycle, who started the company after leaving a ‘dream job’ at McLaren Cars in 2002, told Pedelecs that while building a...

Birmingham’s Cycle Show was once again the launch pad for new models from E-Bike Village exhibitors over the extended weekend show. More images from the show here: http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/news/nec-cycle-show-lines-2017-e-bikes/

http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/news/cube-e-bikes-stolen-nec-cycle-show/ The stolen eMTBs include the following models; in some cases more than one of each model was taken: CUBE STEREO HYBRID 160 HPA RACE 500 27.5 METAL/GREEN 18″ CUBE STEREO HYBRID 160 HPA RACE 500 27.5 METAL/GREEN 20” CUBE ACCESS...

Nine Cube e-bikes stolen ahead of NEC Cycle Show Cube have issued a statement to say that there will be a different set of their electric bikes to test at the Cycle Show to those previously announced. Due to what Cube are calling the ‘unforeseen popularity’ of their full suspension eMTB...

Tern Bicycles are launching a rear cycle light which also projects 360 degrees of radial 60-lumen light on the ground around the bike, with the aim of providing additional protection for the cyclist in low visibility. Full story...

The 15th anniversary of the NEC Cycle Show will see Bosch sponsoring an indoor eMTB 300m indoor test track for the first time. With the ever-increasing interest in eMTBs, the show is using the opportunity to bring in 400 tonnes of earth, a wooden ramp, rock garden and banked corners to...

Ying-Tsao Tan was the product design graduate behind the launch of Momentum’s Model T and Upstart electric bikes. The company’s aim of ‘moving everybody’ meant the design of each bike had to tick as many boxes as possible for different uses, needs and wishes. The Model T While the Upstart is a...

Peak Distrist based Juicy Bike has this month launched what they’re calling their ‘most refined bike ever’. The Juicy Roller retails at £1455 and £1605, depending on which battery size you choose. Full story: http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/news/juicy-launches-roller/

With over 3.5 million of us buying a bike each year, the BBC’s Inside the Factory this week looks at the design and engineering skills that go in to the making of a Brompton bicycle. Brompton’s bicycle factory, Britain’s largest, produces 46,000 bikes a year to be retailed globally. The...

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(full story: http://www.pedelecs.co.uk/news/usa-road-trip-difference-pedelecs-adventures-sand-snow-tour/) Susanne Bruesch’s latest epic journey in the saddle of a Haibike SDURO electric bike has seen her cycling over 3,100 miles in 10 weeks across Western USA as team leader for the latest...

The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) says it has now tested ‘several thousand’ bikes at different races using the same system to detect hidden motors that led to Femke Van den Driessche’s six year suspension by the UCI’s Disciplinary Commission earlier this year. ‘Technological fraud’, or...

The second year of this event will see five electric bike trade stands, including Electrifying Cycles, showcasing their latest models in Norwich. The organisers expect 2800 weekend campers and 4000 day visitors to attend during the 3 day event on 22nd, 23rd and 24th July at the Norfolk...