They can use the bikes they already own, along with their own trainers (which turn road bikes into stationary bikes).
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That's where trailers come in, which let bikes tow bikes.
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All over China, there are stories of bikes blocking traffic, bikes obstructing pedestrian sidewalks, bikes stolen or abandoned or stripped for parts.
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The recall affects about 15 percent of the bikes available, but Lyft plans to temporarily replace the pedal-assist bikes with classic bikes.
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Standard bikes will replace the pedal-assist bikes, the company said.
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The bikes also come with integrated locks to secure the bikes.
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There were those pictures in China, bikes on top of bikes.
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Exhibits focus on bikes and the relationship between bikes and airplanes.
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The universal fit, wheel-off design accommodates a broad range of bike types, including 24-inch bikes, mountain bikes, and full-size road bikes.
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New York launched with 6,000 bikes, and now they have 73,000 bikes.
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Jump Bikes launched in San Francisco in January with 22 electric bikes.
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The popularity of electric bikes is in line with Halfords' strategy to become more service-focused, as electric bikes require more maintenance than ordinary bikes.
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Uber employees riding dirt bikes and bikes test a car's bike perception algorithms.
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Yellow bikes became synonymous with Ofo, orange bikes with Mobike, blue with Bluegogo.
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Located in the city of Utrecht near Central Station, the 222/2000 ride-in facility now features enough storage for a casual 22020,28 bikes, including regular commuter bikes, cargo bikes, electric bikes, and even tandems (yes, some people use 'em).
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In general, e-bikes capable of 8003 km/h are called pedelecs (from "pedal electric bikes"), whereas the faster 45 km/h bikes are called speed-pedelecs.
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The judge also distinguished between pedal bikes and e-bikes and gave the city and Lyft 90 days to negotiate a new provider deal for e-bikes.
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About 15 percent of those bikes will now be the new pink e-bikes.
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Its sensors work 360 degrees, including in the dark and have been programmed to distinguish between tandem bikes, bikes with big wheels, unicycles, and other types of bikes.
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Dockless — bicycles that lock to themselves or can be locked to a post or rack — app-enabled bikes, like the green bikes from Lime, yellow bikes from Ofo, red bikes from Jump, or white-and-blue colored bikes from Pace, have arrived en masse since last summer, changing up how people commute and how cities regulate biking programs.
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Dockless bike-sharing service Wukong Bikes shut down after it lost 90 percent of its bikes in just five months—the company forgot to equip its bikes with GPS.
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While most dockless bikes are cruisers with a few speeds, some are e-bikes with motors inside — Uber recently acquired e-bike maker Jump Bikes for about $200 million.
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Jump, previously called Social Bikes, only recently began operating its own fleet of dockless bikes.
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One of the things that excite me the most about e-bikes is the experimentation with form factors: mini-bikes that look like motorcycles, freight bikes that look like tiny trucks, fat tire bikes with a ton of power and maybe an automotive badge.
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Along with parking spaces for bikes, including electric bikes, around 1,000 OV-fiets rental bikes are available from the facility's first floor — you can check availability using the NS app.
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The bikes are much the same, but Pace bikes require that you lock them to a designated bike rack or pole, while Lime bikes must be left in designated zones.
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Today, the city is covered in green lanes filled with tourists on Citi Bikes, lawless delivery men on electric bikes and hipsters coasting on Dutch utility bikes or brakeless fixies.
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In the US, when Triumph was big, they were compact bikes, they were very simple bikes.
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As a comparison, I'd rather use e-bikes (or emoto-bikes) for longer journey without hesitation.
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E-bikes are pedal bikes that also have a small battery pack and an electric motor.
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Some of them rode Boris bikes, others BMXs, others expensive-looking mountain bikes with chunky tires.
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Schoolchildren learn how to ride bikes safely and afterward are tested on their bikes in traffic.
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If you spend enough time riding bikes in New York or San Francisco, you'll probably notice a growing trend: electric bikes, otherwise known as "e-bikes," are starting to pop up everywhere.
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Regulators have tightened rules around shared bikes and raised concerns too many bikes were hitting the streets.
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We went from 20,000 bikes to 60,000 bikes and $303 million in revenue to around $170 million.
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Plus, stores that were already delivering with traditional bikes saw improved team member satisfaction with e-bikes.
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Stationary bikes are sort of having a moment as an alternative to expensive smart bikes like Peloton.
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Lyft pulls e-bikes in light of apparent battery fires Lyft recently won the right to launch its pedal-assist bikes in San Francisco, but now it's pulling those bikes from the city and other parts of the Bay Area after two of those bikes experienced apparent battery fires.
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The idea is for it to serve as a parking platform for bikes, electric bikes and electric scooters.
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Users just need to enter the code LIME2VOTE25 to unlock any of its shared bikes or electric bikes.
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The company said the bikes can sync with SmarTrip cards so people without smartphones can use the bikes.
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Bikes favored by delivery workers, known as throttle-controlled electric bikes, that can travel faster than 20 m.p.h.
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The bikes first arrived in New York in August, after the city approved new rules on electric bikes.
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A variety of cargo bikes and mini-trucks that are e-bikes in disguise are hitting the market.
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Given that New York City is working on a framework pertaining to electric bikes, it should only be a matter of time before Motivate launches e-bikes as part of the Citi Bikes program.
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And that goes back to your earlier question is, we started with bikes and then we'll add electric-assisted bikes to it, and then later on we might even add kids' bikes to it.
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JUMP bikes operate in tandem with Motivate's Ford GoBike system, which includes both regular pedal and pedal-assist bikes.
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Motivate first deployed pedal assist bikes in San Francisco about one year ago before more broadly deploying the bikes.
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Users can plan their ride-share trips around where there are available bikes given the bikes are GPS-enabled.
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The other 45.5 million trips were on bikes — either ones from station-based bike-shares or dockless shared bikes.
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They found that bike-share bikes had lower collision and injury rates than personal bikes in all three cities.
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They had started in the bike-sharing space, starting with pedal bikes and they had just introduced e-bikes.
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The parts of Motivate that maintain bikes will remain a stand-alone company and continue to service Lyft Bikes.
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Over the last several years, electric bikes (referred to as e-bikes) have taken the cycling industry by storm.
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Andrew Hawkins is having way more fun testing out weird and different kinds of e-bikes than I am testing weird and different kinds of smartphones: One of the things that excite me the most about e-bikes is the experimentation with form factors: mini-bikes that look like motorcycles, freight bikes that look like tiny trucks, fat tire bikes with a ton of power and maybe an automotive badge.
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Lyft, which bought bike-share company Motivate back in July, also released some data about its electric pedal-assist bikes this week, showing that the pedal-assist bikes are, unsurprisingly, more popular than the traditional bikes.
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Gobee's exit leaves Paris with three remaining Asian-owned operators, Singapore's oBike, with about 1,800 grey-orange bikes, and two major Chinese firms: Ofo, with about 1,000 yellow bikes, and Mobike, with several thousand red bikes.
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"E-bikes" are expected to become more popular, where users are able to find and rent bikes quickly via apps.
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What makes these bikes a bit different from JUMP bikes is the fact that they're docked and have removable batteries.
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Lyft found this year that its e-bikes were being used three times as frequently as its traditional pedal bikes.
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GM is launching the bikes in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, where lithium-ion battery-powered e-bikes are popular.
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E-bikes make up around 15 percent of Motivate's total fleet in three cities, or 3,000 of 113,000 total bikes.
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For example, Central American communities might share bikes informally within their own neighborhoods, while others lock their bikes up inside.
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GM is launching the bikes in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, where lithium-ion battery-powered e-bikes are popular.
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Some triathlon competitors will ride more traditional-style road bikes, but it is known that triathlon bikes can ride faster.
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Seattle residents want access to bikes, that much is clear—but couldn't the bikes be just a little less annoying?
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Heineken also flew over bikes for their daily commutes (the bikes will be donated to Rio residents after the games).
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"Most of the young people start on those heavy, metal bikes before they grow into proper racing bikes," Kinjah said.
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First, hub drive bikes have the motor in the hub whereas mid-drive bikes house the motor in its frame.
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Bikes that don't require pedaling to move, such as throttle-assisted e-bikes, are still banned throughout New York state.
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E-bikes can come in a huge variety of shapes and sizes, from city bikes with thick tires and stylish designs to cargo bikes with enough power to haul heavy loads or even a couple of kids.
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"They're a lot of fun," said Isbell, who likes the e-bikes so much he went out of his way to find the bikes when Capital Bikeshare's initial pilot included only a limited number of e-bikes.
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I tried out all three bikes during my visit to Shenzhen, and I can confirm that Bluegogo's bikes generally offered a better experience, though that may be due to the fact that the bikes are simply newer.
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There isn't much research about the safety of e-bikes, but existing research tells us there's two main factors affecting how safe e-bikes are to riders and pedestrians: one, whether there's adequate bike lanes and infrastructure in place to accommodate e-bikes, and two, how fast the bikes are going (in other words, whether they follow the rules of the road.) In essence, regardless of how safe e-bikes are right now, existing research tells us that in order to make e-bikes safe, we need a place to put them on the streets.
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Ford's sponsorship will see the Bay Area's supply of shareable bikes expand from 700 to 7,000 by 2018, with 1,350 bikes going to the East Bay, and hundreds of new bike-share stations established to distribute the bikes.
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Many cities were eager to deploy docked bike-share bikes because it gave them control over where the bikes end up.
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It also works on the digital interfaces in the car and even has a separate electric bikes subsidiary called Greyp Bikes.
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Electric bikes, known as e-bikes, are increasingly common on streets and bike paths, both in the United States and elsewhere.
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Dock-less bikes mean the bikes can be picked up and dropped off at any bike rack or designated parking facility.
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Unlike bikes with sharing services in New York and other places, Chinese bikes didn't need to be parked in a dock.
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"We see e-bikes as the entry point into electric mobility," said Claudia Wasko, director of e-bikes for Bosch America.
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Exercise bicycles, also known as stationary bikes or spinning bikes, have a surprisingly long history, dating back to the 16th century.
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Other bikeshare companies, such as PBSC Urban Solutions, have reported their e-bikes are now more popular than their traditional bikes.
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Most e-bikes on the market today have extremely visible batteries and design profiles that distinguish them from most traditional bikes.
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Uber recently made some big bets on e-bikes and scooters by acquiring Jump Bikes and investing in scooter company Lime.
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Uber also temporarily removed its e-bikes from Providence, Rhode Island earlier this month, after the bikes were used in crimes.
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Before the new branding and e-bikes were unveiled, Motivate's bike-sharing fleets (Lyft acquired Motivate and its bicycles last year) had a braking problem and the old e-bikes had been pulled off the streets at three cities across the U.S. The new Bay Wheels bikes finally replaced those bikes, which had been unavailable since April.
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As the pioneer of lock-to dockless bike sharing, we're proud to deliver the first ever universal, secure, smart parking platform for parking not just Pace bikes, but other shared bikes, personal bikes, electric scooters, and future mobility vehicles.
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Any service renting out bikes that don't have bike stations — also known as "dockless" bikes — must make sure their vehicles have "lock-to" technology, which allows users to lock the bikes to a physical object, like a bike rack.
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Compare that to more bike-friendly countries like the Netherlands where, last year, there were more e-bikes sold than regular bikes.
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Another study looked at the cognitive and psychological effects of outdoor cycling and found equal results for traditional bikes and e-bikes.
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Dockless bikes "have largely disappeared from city streets, with the notable exception of dockless bikes still in use in Seattle," NACTO writes.
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The e-bikes are pedal-assist bikes, which can spin up to 15 miles-per-hour with the engine assisting pedal-power.
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"There's an opportunity with e-bikes to bridge the gap between bikes and cars," Jump CEO Ryan Rzepecki said in a statement.
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But unlike the ominous predictions of cities overrun by bikes, Dover sees the addition of bikes to his area as a boost.
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But before throwing their bikes forward, sprinters must first pull their bikes slightly backward to load their arms for the final thrust.
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That idea, enacted through Secretary of the Interior Order 3376, allows e-bikes on national park grounds wherever normal bikes are permitted.
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Mechanized mountain bikes and e-bikes, especially at higher speeds, are incompatible with hiking, hunting, and bird and wildlife watching, some argue.
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Dahon Launch D8 Tern Link C8 folding bike Generally known for their folding electric bikes, manufacturer Tern also makes regular folding bikes.
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As study after study shows, e-bikes help casual users get more exercise overall, once they get going, than regular bikes do.
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Rad Power Bikes is leading the pack for affordable e-bikes, as well as other companies like Lectric, Nakto, and e-Joe.
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Beeline Bikes assembles and delivers bikes bought on Raleigh's and Diamondback's websites as well as those bought through Backcountry and Competitive Cyclist.
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Since the bikes are GPS-tracked, companies can more quickly meet demand by moving bikes to various locations, a process called rebalancing.
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While fewer bikes on the road may correlate with the number of rides per bike per day, JUMP says its utilization rate remained consistent at over eight rides per bike per day post-expansion from 250 bikes to 500 bikes.
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Despite the environmental benefits of using dockless bikes versus cars, many public officials have been skeptical of abandoned dockless bikes littering their cities.
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Most mountain bikes come with midrange motors, while the majority of commuter bikes sold in hill-less cities like Amsterdam are hub-based.
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The new framework legalizes pedal-assist bikes while keeping in tact regulations that make illegal throttle e-bikes that go above 20 MPH.
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The ugly bikes stayed on Copenhagen's streets until 15, when the city replaced the old clunkers with a fleet of spiffy e-bikes.
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He added that Mobike tries to offer users incentives to treat their bikes better, including ride credits to users for rescuing stranded bikes.
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The brothers saw tons of money, research, and development go into racing and mountain bikes, but very little going into evolving commuter bikes.
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Pace bikes there require riders to lock the bike to a rack or a pole; Lime bikes must be left in designated zones.
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The pedal-assist bikes were replaced with traditional bikes, and Citi Bike did not say when they might return to New York's streets.
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In August, Motivate, which runs Citi Bike, began testing a pilot program by installing 200 e-bikes into its collection of 12,000 bikes.
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San Francisco has given a permit for electric bike-sharing to Jump Bikes, though it is limited to 250 bikes at the start.
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This way, as the technology in bikes advances, LimeBike can quickly get hold of the newest bikes and introduce them into their markets.
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E-BIKES CRACKDOWN Also weighing on lead is a crackdown by Chinese municipal authorities on electric or e-bikes, which account for about one-third of Chinese demand for lead-acid batteries, amid some concerns about the bikes' impact on road safety.
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The city hopes to increase the number of bikes from Lyft's 2,000 up to 11,000 with those new providers — whose bikes will be dockless.
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Below, you can see just how much more popular JUMP's shared, dockless electric bikes are than the shared, station-based bikes from Ford GoBike.
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All-electric bikes don't require the same maintenance as gasoline-powered bikes — including oil changes, air filter changes and frequent engine rebuilds — Dorresteyn noted.
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In recent weeks, Lyft had to pull its electric bikes from some markets after some of the bikes caught fire due to undetermined causes.
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Citi Bike introduced a small number of e-bikes in 2018 as new transportation options such as e-bikes and e-scooters took off.
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Both bikes will eventually be offered with VanMoof+ subscriptions, but pricing won't be set until the bikes are in stock later in the year.
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The collection donated by Williams' children features a wide range of bikes, from a unicycle to unique small bikes to a child's Schwinn cruiser.
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In cities where Jump already has bikes, like San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, and Washington, D.C., the bikes will roll out starting Jan. 7.
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The company is pulling the bikes to investigate the issue, though Lyft says there have been no reported injuries due to the e-bikes.
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In China the problems have included vandalism and theft of bikes, as well as bikes randomly strewn along crowded city streets and pedestrian paths.
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Tens of thousands of broken or stranded bikes littered those cities before their governments cracked down, impounding bikes and setting limits on their use.
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Over the past few years, we've tried almost every kind of ebike there is, from heavy-duty cargo bikes to high-end mountain bikes.
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Vogo requires people to pick up and drop off their bikes at designated locations, while Bounce bikes can be picked up or left anywhere.
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Jump is also operating around 200 bikes in Washington, D.C., and plans to double the number of bikes there in the next few months.
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San Diego-based Juiced Bikes is building on its reputation for nostalgia-driven electric bikes with the release of its latest model, the Scorpion.
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People injured by e-bikes were older, averaging 31.9 years old compared with 29.4 years with powered scooters and 25.2 years with traditional bikes.
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Ford runs a bike-sharing system in the city, GoBikes, but those 7,000 bikes must be docked, while Jump bikes can be locked virtually anywhere.
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Some feel threatened by the rising popularity of e-bikes, as though standard bikes will suddenly vanish like the penny-farthing once everyone goes electric.
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The bikes first arrived in New York City last August, and Citi Bike had expected to have 4,000 electric bikes on the streets by June.
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The Motivate e-bikes are largely indistinguishable from the traditional bikes, aside from the battery tacked on the frame and motor in the front wheel.
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Roughly 3,000 electric bikes are being pulled from service across the three regions, where Lyft also operates around 17,000 traditional bikes for sharing, Reuters reports.
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For the classic bikes, a new art wrap will make the bikes look a bit like its former Ford GoBike self with some Lyft flair.
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The whole operation probably only needs a couple of people to check bikes and handle any questions/problems from people renting the bikes, reckons Majzoobi.
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The thump is one of the bikes' biggest selling-points: some buyers pay workshops to tinker with their new bikes to make it even louder.
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One account is simply called Abandoned Google Bikes and features a handful of photos of bikes lying on their sides in bushes or on sidewalks.
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A company called Jump Bikes will offer dockless electric bikes that give riders a boost when they pedal, topping out at 20 miles per hour.
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The fleet of 200 atomic red bikes by the company Jump, installed in the Fordham area in the Central Bronx, are all pedal-assist bikes.
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In the meantime, standard bikes will be installed to replace the pedal-assist bikes, the company said, noting it does not expect a service interruption.
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"E-mountain bikes these days are super popular," said Dominik Geyer of Specialized, whose company did some soul searching before developing its own e-bikes.
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About a half-dozen states have instituted rules recognizing different classes of e-bikes and allowing pedal-assist bikes that are limited to 20 m.p.h.
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Some prefer to buy new e-bikes, even if it means spending more, to avoid feeding the demand for used, and possibly stolen, e-bikes.
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Rad Power Bikes makes some of the most capable and affordable electric bikes in the US, like the RadWagon cargo bike and RadRunner utility bike.
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Some bike riders believe Citi Bikes are safer because they are slower than personal bikes, or their bright blue hue is more noticeable to drivers.
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Starting next month, Uber will begin showing bikes and scooters on the map, both its Jump bikes and scooters and rival Lime's scooters as well.
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At the end of the decade, e-bikes are now commonplace in European cities, outselling even regular bikes in bike-friendly countries like the Netherlands.
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The SFMTA sees Jump bikes as complementing the Ford GoBike system, which recently announced it will add electric bikes to its San Francisco fleet in April.
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Asked about problems in China with parking too many bikes in public areas, Kennel said Ofo is talking to authorities about optimizing the number of bikes.
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The company placed its bikes around college campuses and office buildings, but couldn't trace their bikes if people took them further out, or brought them home.
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It now expects to ship about 183,000 to 217,000 bikes in 2019, down 5,000 from its April estimate of 217,000 to 222,343 bikes for the year.
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On the other hand, bikes that only lock to themselves become a nuisance and litter streets, China has seen with the popular Ofo and Mobike bikes.
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The new Lyft e-bikes work similarly to the old e-bikes, but will be available to rent through the Lyft app — not a separate app.
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That will be expanded to 250 bikes this summer, he says — with the intention being to put bikes in front of every hotel in downtown Charleston.
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As Uber continues to expand the footprint of JUMP bikes, it's aiming to make the fleet of bikes smarter and easier to unlock, ride and charge.
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London has already greenlighted the company to place bikes in the city and the company will "follow local demand and rules to deploy bikes accordingly," Cycle.
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These bikes go up to 15 mph, while Ford GoBikes by Motivate will go up to 18 mph and Social Bicycles' Jump bikes go 20 mph.
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At that time the company had set a goal of deploying 310 bikes each day, which meant moving dozens of bikes at a time per vehicle.
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"Bike sharing allows users to park their bikes anywhere they want, unlike previous city-bikes where riders had to look for designated dock stations," Shen said.
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She said some riders are unfamiliar with how to use the bikes, and the bikes are difficult to maintain because few manufacturers make the needed parts.
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The increased infrastructure has led to an increase in people using their bikes daily and contributes to the reduction of road accidents for cars and bikes.
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People who own Flywheel At Home exercise bikes can trade in their soon-to-be-defunct bikes for a similar model from Peloton through March 27.
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In DC, for example, total ridership -- for both e-bikes and regular bikes -- on Lyft's system dropped by 13.9% last year from its peak in 2017.
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Maybe it was just me, but this year I felt like street bikes and especially smaller, retro designs edged out powersports dirt bikes for floor space.
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But then comes the bike, the bike services started off with simple mechanical bikes, but really, the bikes are also changing in to e-bikes and electric powered scooters, and that carries a distance from 0-3 kilometers, or miles, to more, like 33 to 10 kilometers.
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Dockless bike-sharing has come under fire of late, thanks to unrelenting jerks users dumping the bikes in random places, vandalising and stripping the bikes for parts.
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San Francisco announced in late May plans to expand its pilot of dockless, electric bikes, which would allow thousands of bikes from Lyft's competitors into the city.
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It's going to cost more money to use Uber's dockless electric Jump bikes in several cities across the US.The pricing equation for Jump bikes varies by city.
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But TechCrunch says Apple Maps doesn't tell you how many bikes are at a given location, just that bikes should be available at an address or intersection.
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Domino's launches e-bike delivery to compete with UberEats, DoorDash Domino's will start using custom electric bikes for pizza delivery through a partnership with Rad Power Bikes.
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Pulling the bikes will allow Uber and the Providence Police Department to locate and retrieve stolen bikes, Uber said in an emailed to statement to Business Insider.
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Right now, Jump uses unmarked vans to disperse its bright red e-bikes, and uses data to serve areas where people open the app looking for bikes.
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The bikes — 11 variations are offered in the United States — use Ducati's V-twin engine but do not copy the sherpa-like utility trimmings of adventure bikes.
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The Trump administration recently allowed e-bikes, or electric bikes, to be used on some trails under the jurisdiction of the Interior Department where bicycles are allowed.
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The new program has grown to 3,000 bikes operated by three companies — Spin, LimeBike, and ofo — and is expected to soon double in size to 6,000 bikes.
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Rad Power Bikes makes some capable e-bikes, like the RadWagon Electric Cargo Bike that The Verge's Andrew Hawkins calls "a legitimate car replacement" for his needs.
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The news follows a similar announcement that e-bikes are coming back to San Francisco, after a couple battery fires put those bikes out of service, too.
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Popular enthusiasm for commuting bikes in India's densely populated city streets provides a far larger rider base than in western markets where Harley sells most of its bikes.
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For seniors who were already dependent on their bikes in places like Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Berlin, e-bikes offered a way to continue riding for many more years.
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Aside from bikes, the startup also offers shared electric bikes, ride-hailing and carpooling, a category that became much contested following high-profile passenger murders on Didi Chuxing .
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Photo essays of sprawling lots of abandoned bikes in China, or bikes hanging from trees or sunk in creeks in Washington, DC or Dallas, are popular online clickbait.
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The company's Citi Bike division is working to replace about 3,000 pedal assist-bikes in New York, Washington and San Francisco with traditional bikes to prevent service interruptions.
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A Lime scooter rider died in Washington, D.C., marking the second fatality this month On electric bikes: Bird is one of few scooter businesses that doesn't offer bikes.
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The company's bike share division is working to replace about 3,000 pedal-assist bikes in New York, Washington and San Francisco with traditional bikes to prevent service interruptions.
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In China, smart bikes – or Uber for bikes -- have become a popular, environmentally friendly and efficient way to travel short distances for commuting to work or running errands.
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Uber, which was using the same bikes at the time, said it was able to fix the brake problem, and its bikes are still active in many markets.
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While dock-less bikes have their fans for making access to bikes easier, they have also adopted criticism for large cycle 'dumps' which have become commonplace across China.
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BEIJING, Oct 20 (Reuters) - China's commerce ministry urged the European Union on Friday to terminate anti-dumping measures on Chinese electronic bikes (e-bikes) as soon as possible.
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Last summer, I walked from my hotel down a hill to Carrera Séptima, a wide avenue where men on Italian road bikes zoomed past teenagers on mountain bikes.
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Along the way it has found a dedicated following by riders who've customized the flexible twin-engine platform into track bikes, customs, touring bikes and even flat trackers.
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Less e-bikes locked to bike racks means less sidewalk obstruction, more consistent locations to find e-bikes to ride, and a more efficient charging and maintenance process.
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Some smaller bike companies have sold their bikes online for some time, but now the industry's largest manufacturers are offering bikes directly to consumers via their web pages.
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The biggest concern cities have, so far, is about where the bikes will be parked and the risk of the bikes collecting in specific parts of the city.
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And yes, regular bikes are key, but we see shared electric, and maybe even autonomously self distributing bikes as a key to lowering the barrier to human scale vehicles.
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Jump Bikes, founded by Ryan Rzepecki, has been operating in the bike-share space for 10 years and initially focused on selling these bikes to clients in 40 markets.
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The new base models represent the most common configurations ordered by customers, according to Ampler, which is transitioning from built-to-order bikes to pre-configured bikes this year.
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In its press statement, Mobike says most of its bikes are used for trips up to 3 km, but the e-bikes will hopefully increase that to 5 km.
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Lime spokesperson Mary Caroline Pruitt said barely 1 percent of bikes in the fleet have been vandalized or stolen, but the product team still has to build sturdy bikes.
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Its scooters and e-bikes, for reference, are $1 to unlock and 15 cents per minute and regular pedal bikes are $1 to unlock and 5 cents per minute.
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Unlike other traditional e-bikes, the ARĪV bikes have a "walk mode" that engages the motor of the e-bike to make for an easier walk up steep terrains.
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And while the bikes in Stevens Creek might be the product of vandalism, this isn't the first time the bikes have been abandoned in this part of Silicon Valley.
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They'll strap their bikes up and ride through the streets, but mostly they'll meet for these battles with other kids on bikes to see who has the loudest music.
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Paul Steely White, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives, a group that advocates for more biking, agreed that the city should focus on Citi Bikes rather than dockless bikes.
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It will be cheaper for riders to leave e-bikes at stations as opposed to scattered about, thus helping to ensure bikes are easier to find, maintain, and charge.
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The bikes, called the Arīv Meld and the folding Arīv Merge, will first be available in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, where e-bikes are particularly popular, GM said.
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Around the corner, still in its original location, is the building where the brothers sold and repaired bikes and constructed bikes of their own design from 1895 to 1897.
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Individual bikes and bike trips are not tracked via GPS — that would be a little creepy — but these cities track when and where bikes are checked in and out.
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It's set to ship in July 2016, but if you're in New York now, you can check out the bikes at the Priority Bikes workshop listed on the company's website.
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Maxime Thouvenin: So as you said we started with the 401s, the Vitpilen and Svartpilen [concept] show bikes, and then of course we worked to turn these bikes into production.
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The company hasn't said exactly how many bikes it has deployed, but it claims to have over 100,000 bikes in each of its top cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
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She also chose a new name out of respect for Dykes on Bikes founder Soni Wolf's lengthy battle to trademark the name Dykes on Bikes (Wolf passed away in 2018).
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All the respondents in Seoul switched from public transport or walking to the app-leased bikes, although the city-backed service there used docking stations instead of free-range bikes.
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This week, Australia's problem has hit boiling point, with bike-sharing service oBike recovering many bikes dumped in strange places — including 42 bikes from Melbourne's Yarra River on Tuesday alone.
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Ofo and another Beijing start-up, Mobike, realized that by equipping bikes with GPS and digital locks, commuters could use their phones to rent bikes, freeing them from fixed docks.
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The deal includes unlimited 45-minute trips on traditional bikes and e-bikes for up to 30 days, but the free membership will not automatically renew into an annual membership.
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The deal includes unlimited 45-minute trips on traditional bikes and e-bikes for up to 30 days, but the free membership will not automatically renew into an annual membership.
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Guangzhou is proposing a ban on e-bikes while other large cities are hunting down e-bikes that fail to meet regulations, Yao told the Reuters Global Base Metals Forum.
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Hjelm said VOI was introducing cargo bikes, which would allow children or groceries to be transported, and e-bikes and was exploring adding e-mopeds and electric or transit pods.
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Benefiting commuters, mountain bikers, road bikers, and city cruisers alike, e-bikes shifted the way people get from point A to point B.Despite criticism from traditional cyclists, there's no denying the positive impact e-bikes have on the environment as more people ditch gas-guzzling cars in favor of battery-powered bikes.
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Many of the bikes have been bought from liquidators — who took control of oBike's shuttered business in Singapore and inherited Ofo's abandoned fleets — which makes their acquisition cheaper than regular bikes.
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In nearly every country that these bikes have launched in, we've seen bikes stripped for parts, painted to be concealed (and therefore stolen for an individual's own use), and so on.
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Dockless bike-sharing services have become synonymous with large, unsightly piles of dumped bikes, or bikes left in unusual locations, up trees, in rivers, or just scattered haphazardly around city streets.
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Instead of requiring people to dock their bikes at a shared station, like what you see with New York's Citi Bike, the bikes in China don't need to be locked down.
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These firms have put more than 10 million bikes on the street in the year since the bike-sharing boom started, sometimes prompting police to move away bikes blocking the paths.
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"The impacts are mounting because there are more and more mountain bikers and there is more pressure to go into these places with faster bikes and electric mechanized bikes," he said.
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The bikes' top speed is 18 mph, which is fine for biking up hills or over bridges, but is less than most throttle-powered e-bikes used by food delivery workers.
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Smaller cargo bikes will also be allowed to park on wider sidewalks, and all the bikes can travel along the city's growing network of more than 1,400 miles of bike lanes.
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All his friends say ... he should stay off bikes.
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" - Melissa, 238 "Noticed post-coitus: two bikes, pink towel.
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Fetty is no stranger to bikes ... and bike mishaps.
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HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Move over, connected exercise bikes.
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An ever-growing number of bikes is forcing municipal authorities to spend millions of euros on state-of-the art parking venues, maintaining cycling lanes, removing wrecks and impounding badly parked bikes.
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When these bikes first launched, there was a fair amount of controversy and outcry from Bay Area residents about the amount of space these bikes take up and its effects on gentrification.
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Thousands of its bikes have been thrown in piles, found in rivers or locked up behind fences; some by mean-spirited vandals, others by people meaning to hog the bikes for themselves.
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And back home, Chinese officials in Shenzhen, Shanghai and Chengdu have also issued similar orders, resulting in thousands of bikes impounded as government workers grapple to clear the streets of these bikes.
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At first glance, Wing's e-bikes share some design features with Dutch e-bike company VanMoof's flagship bikes, most noticeably the elongated top tube (23.3 inches) with embedded front and rear lights.
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This week, Lyft recalled thousands of e-bikes in New York City, Washington, DC, and San Francisco due to braking problems that caused some of the bikes' front wheels to lock up.
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You've got to imagine that if you look at the show bikes and the production bikes — I hope, and so far that's the — they look very, very similar to the show bike.
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In Germany, DB figured out the relationship between bikes and transit more than 10 years ago with the first dockless shared bikes, and the massive bike parking infrastructure connected to Dutch transit.
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I've ridden some modern bikes, but the bulk of my riding experience comes from riding vintage bikes — which is why RideApart thought I'd be the right rider to cover the XSR launch.
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Most, like Paris's Velib or London's so-called Boris Bikes are run or set up by the local government, often with corporate sponsors, and bikes are available from racks at set locations.
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Among the five cities, users in Beijing were the most committed, with six out of 15 respondents riding shared bikes daily, and the other nine using the bikes several times a week.
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And the bikes will be built by Social Bicycle, a Brooklyn manufacturer, which claims that its bikes eschew expensive docks and kiosks by incorporating communications and locking mechanisms within the bike itself.
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The pizza chain plans to roll out hundreds of e-bikes in partnership with Rad Power Bikes across company-owned stores throughout Miami, Salt Lake City, Baltimore and Houston later this year.
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Eventually, the pressure to keep deploying bikes to desirable locations led to a new rule, Healy says: Badly damaged bikes would no longer be painstakingly cannibalized for parts but simply thrown out.
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BEIJING/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission launched an investigation on Friday into the import of electronic bikes, or e-bikes, from China, prompting Beijing to warn Europe not to slip into protectionism.
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Harley had previously said retail sales for its bikes in Asia were hurt after it exited Indonesia, Southeast Asia's largest economy where bikes are hugely popular, at the end of last year.
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"Some other players tend to act first and talk later, put 500 bikes in a city, have a press announcement, then a few months later their bikes are being impounded," he said.
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It plans to introduce electric bikes in Berlin, the first city outside the United States where the Uber bikes will be available, and to eventually debut its food-delivery service in Germany.
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" Electric bikes, a particular source of frustration for doormen, are technically illegal in New York, and Mr. Orcutt of Bike New York said the city had confiscated e-bikes "in random bursts.
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" Made in England, Brompton bikes are extremely well-constructed, according to Crooks, who says that "all the things that typically fail [on other folding bikes], like hinges, are bombproof on the Brompton.
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The bikes aren't light — each weighs around 60 pounds — but are still lighter than the "hybrid" e-bikes used in San Francisco by sister operator Bay Wheels, which include integrated locking mechanisms.
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And if they're anything like the EB2111 city bike that was released earlier this year, the new bikes will be fun and affordable entry-level e-bikes for a wide variety of riders.
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When testing begins, Uber employees swarm this mini city's streets in buses, cars, road bikes, and dirt bikes (to properly train the autonomous cars to recognize "all types of motorcycles," according to Thomason).
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This weekend the e-bikes available through the Uber app (Uber acquired Jump earlier this year) were newly rentable in Staten Island, and on Monday, the bikes made a debut in the Bronx.
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Lyft reported earlier this year that its e-bikes in New York were being ridden about 15 times a day, which is three times as often as the traditional bikes in its fleet.
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Right now, Lyft is trying to argue it has the exclusive right to deploy dockless electric bikes on the streets of San Francisco, potentially pushing out competitors like Uber's dockless Jump e-bikes.
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"We're cultivating a culture of cooperative community," Dierenfield said, meaning riders, companies, city officials, and residents alike should stand up fallen bikes, follow safety guidelines for the bikes, and park the devices properly.
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And while the ruling doesn't necessarily mean Lyft's newly reintroduced electric bikes will be the only e-bikes in San Francisco, the decision could prove to be a big tailwind for the company.
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E-mountain bikes also tend to be pricey, and their top speeds, which can exceed 20 miles per hour — at which point, the bikes' motors are designed to switch off — may be alarming.
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Domino's will start using custom electric bikes for pizza delivery through a partnership with Rad Power Bikes, as it aims to become more competitive with on-demand apps like DoorDash, GrubHub and UberEats.
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I've tested a variety of bikes and even wrote a guide to the best commuter bikes, but the Cannondale Treadwell 2 is one of the most comfortable, lightweight, and attractive bicycles I've tried.
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Ofo - which operates 10 million bikes in China and has launched thousands in Milan, Vienna, Valencia and London - told Reuters last week it plans to launch its bikes in Paris around year-end.
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Bikes and e-bikes, the motorized two-wheelers used by many delivery drivers for restaurants, are supposed to ride in the same direction as the street traffic, but sometimes go the opposite way.
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On a recent evening, 442 bikes — compared with 331 cars — passed by in one hour, more than three times the 141 bikes counted in the same hour in 2011, according to city data.
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Lyft recently bought bikeshare operator Motivate, the firm behind New York's Citi Bikes and San Francisco's GoBikes, while Uber purchased Jump Bikes and partnered with Lime to provide e-scooters on its platform.
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The company sells a sixth of its bikes in Europe.
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Now, he says he bikes to work all the time.
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It's no wonder, then, that Dallas is drowning in bikes.
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Then dockless, shared bikes from Jump, Ofo, Bluegogo, and Mobike.
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It gives me one free day of unlimited Citi Bikes!
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Because it's not just about bikes, it's about women everywhere.
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The Movistar bikes have a distinguished look we found refreshing.
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He also sent me pictures of other bikes he'd stolen.
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In China, there are heaps of thousands of discarded bikes.
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The new parking rules will help operators find more bikes.
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It includes the images of five bikes made with metal.
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But I gotta say: I really, really miss those bikes.
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Police allege Mikese Morse saw the family riding their bikes.
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Wordlessly, he turns and strides off towards the bellowing bikes.
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Like the waste ... It's just literally a mountain of bikes.
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That includes accommodation, SIM cards, and even the bikes themselves.
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Autonomous scooters and bikes are on Uber's watch list, too.
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" And she'd say, "Go ride your bikes to the store.
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When you think folding bikes, you're most likely imagining Brompton.
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Both bikes put the rider in the same sporty position.
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Examples include Paris's Vélib and London's Santander Cycles ("Boris bikes").
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Bluegogo has half a million bikes in six Chinese cities.
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JUMP bikes are unlocked and locked using a smartphone app.
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For now, they mainly supply bikes to corporations, not consumers.
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Scaling electric scooters and bikes to connect to mass transit.
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Authorities have rounded up and confiscated the bikes in droves.
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The tradition continues with their bikes, power tools, and strollers.
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Bigger bikes are falling out of favor with younger riders.
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That made the white bikes something of a cause célèbre.
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Then the 3G network that we enabled on the bikes.
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Now I want to see them race on Citi Bikes.
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The bikes are quite unlike anything else on the market.
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They're manufactured by Motivate and assembled domestically by Detroit Bikes.
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I think there are cases where obviously bikes are better.
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Additional launches are in the pipeline, as are electric bikes.
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Sellers was washing dirt bikes, the tires thick with mud.
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It's much easier that we have a fleet of bikes.
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Bikes have not changed that much since they were invented.
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I had the thing where I maintained all the bikes.
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Still, not all streets have protected spaces like bikes lanes.
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They've been building bikes for two and a half years.
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Then all bikes must be able to lock to something.
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He has since moved on to Peloton indoor exercise bikes.
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These bikes, Foley said, have been years in the making.
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Police "clearing" the streets by dumping bikes in a corner.
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That's a huge pile of shared bikes in Shenzhen, China.
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Adult bikes, that is — which is all the resort had.
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And as the tech gets cheaper, so could VanMoof's bikes.
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Vogo competes with Bounce, which offers more than 6,000 bikes.
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Residents use these paths when riding on their motor bikes.
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For example, I took Jump bikes to and from meetings.
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The bikes cost £1 to unlock, then £0.12 per minute.
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Now proposed legislation in Congress would allow bikes in wilderness.
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For now, the bikes thieves have gotten away with it.
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Cyclists fall off their bikes, breaking bones and dislocating joints.
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Bdood's Instagram page includes videos of women using the bikes:
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The company has about 17,000 traditional bikes in those cities.
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The bikes are pricey, typically retailing for thousands of dollars.
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The EVO steps onto our podium of best Tour bikes.
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Peloton makes stationary bikes and treadmills equipped with interactive displays.
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In return, couriers provided their own cellphones, bikes and motorcycles.
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Healy noticed that Ofo kept deploying more and more bikes.
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We drop our bikes and go out to Thai food.
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The late afternoon parade features sweet rides like these bikes ...
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Bolt Bikes has piqued the interest of more than investors.
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Both Pace and Lime's bikes cost $1 every 30 minutes.
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So far, she's raised over $12,000 — enough for three bikes.
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JUMP bikes and scooters are also included in the mix.
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People ride their bikes in Huntington Beach, California, March 21.
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The Commission says these imports are principally of Chinese bikes.
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The Commission says these imports are principally of Chinese bikes.
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LG: Why are you so bothered by the Google bikes?
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Most of the cyclists making deliveries favor the throttle bikes.
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At the end, the bikes can be left almost anywhere.
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New York is already making room, too, for electric bikes.
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They parked their bikes inside the mouth of the cave.
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Included in the sale are ellipticals, treadmills, bikes, and more.
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On October 28, two men moved bikes into the unit.
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Afterward, they can leave the bikes without a dock station.
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I drive myself and D. over while everyone else bikes.
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At my mother's house, we ride bikes down paved streets.
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What really impressed me was how light the bikes felt.
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She still bikes to her job as a school janitor.
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The startup maintains over 3,000 electric bikes on its platform.
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The bikes were also pulled from San Jose and Oakland.
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Before 2017, San Franciscans used bikes to navigate the city.
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Do members of your family ever ride bikes to work?
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What advantages do bikes have over other modes of travel?
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Are bikes rather than jet packs the future of transportation?
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Kayakers paddled down thoroughfares normally filled with cars and bikes.
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His administration introduced Citi Bikes and banned smoking in restaurants.
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These can range from kicking soccer balls to riding bikes.
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One thing you cannot miss is the abundance of bikes.
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So now, he's giving free bikes to 240 young students.
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Note the not one, but two Peloton spin bikes available.
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LimeBike's Contee said that although the company gets its bikes at cost, they retail for $2,500 each—meaning they're still paying a pretty penny for the 34,000 bikes it currently owns across 45 locations.
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When cities have little control over companies that are dropping millions of bikes on a city, and when those companies have little control over where those bikes end up, the results can be ugly.
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Uber thinks dockless e-bikes and scooters could drastically reduce passenger car trips under three miles, but also acknowledges that it wields little control over the complex supply chain associated with bikes and scooters.
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The company will work with Portland's Black Parent Initiative to expand electric vehicle access to underserved communities, Cynergy E-Bikes to connect UberEATS couriers with electric bikes and Arcimoto, an Oregon-based EV company.
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"These new bikes will allow Lyft to address the severe bicycle availability issues that Bay Wheels has faced since Lyft removed e-bikes from service in April," the SFMTA wrote in a blog post.
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A similar bill would allow for the use of e-bikes with a max speed of 20 mph, while another creates a conversion program for throttle e-bikes to become pedal-assist e-bicycles.
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One more thing … Google Maps has added a feature that lets users see Lime scooters, pedal bikes and e-bikes right from the transit tab in more than 80 new cities around the world.
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While Mr. Trump has fanned that perception, Harley has said that it will shift production only for bikes it sells in Europe and that American bikes will still be made in the United States.
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Bikes favored by delivery workers — throttle-controlled electric bikes, which can travel faster than 20 miles per hour — are illegal, a decision that has raised concerns over discrimination against a largely immigrant work force.
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Compounding the issue is that e-bikes are not legal on the streets of New York City, which has put bikers at odds with law enforcement officers, who issue tickets and sometimes impound bikes.
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The Washington Post reported that Uber, which offers electric share bikes under the Jump brand, replaced bikes with the Shimano brakes with new models — though not before some Jump customers reported being injured, too.
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But starting today, anyone who is eligible for state or federal assistance programs can access traditional pedal bikes at a 95 percent discount and electric bikes and scooters at a 50 percent discount per ride.
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Motivate plans to roll out a pilot program of 250 e-bikes in San Francisco in April, while LimeBike will start launching e-bikes this month in Miami, Seattle and the greater San Francisco area.
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Washington, DC (CNN Business)Lyft is returning e-bikes to its San Francisco Bay Area fleet just days after it filed a lawsuit to block competitors from launching their own e-bikes in the city.
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YouTuber devinsupertramp (who we've highlighted before) managed to turn a fleet of Jetovators, or water-powered jet bikes, into the speeder bikes from Return of the Jedi ready for battle on the waterways of Endor.
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Motivate, the bike-share operator behind Citi Bike in New York City, rushed to bring the new e-bikes into the Bay Area after a spate of other e-bikes and scooters flooded the market.
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Unlike New York's Citi Bikes program run through Motivate (recently acquired by Lyft, keep up!), Jump Bikes are "dock-less," meaning they can be picked up and dropped off at any post or bike rack.
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Gobee, which had 2,000 bikes in Paris and claimed around 150,000 users across the country, says 3,400 of the company's bikes have been damaged and more than 1,000 have been stolen, according to The Guardian.
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If you were to walk through many parts of the city today, you'd likely see multiple Lime e-bikes alongside the plethora of other shared bikes that can be picked up and used on-demand.
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" SoBi also uses incentives to manage its fleet of bikes so that "instead of a scavenger hunt to find a bike each day, a user knows that there's a bunch of bikes three blocks away.
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The distribution of bikes to Abel and his classmates was World Bicycle Relief's first foray into that area; they have now distributed 78,000 bikes in Zimbabwe, according to Matt Pierce, creative director for the organization.
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E-bikes have some obvious advantages over EVs — they're cheaper, easier to charge, and don't require huge investments in supportive infrastructure — but there may come a time when electric cars start to outsell electric bikes.
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The number of shared bikes will probably be limited to 9,000.
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Speaking of commuting: Electric, dockless e-bikes might be the future.
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Uber tests monthly subscription that combines Eats, rides, bikes and scooters
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To date, Lyft operates its bikes and scooters in 20 markets.
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The UAE team's bikes are good- and fast-looking race machines.
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Some cities have put bans on shared bikes, citing safety concerns.
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This, to me, felt silly; who bikes themselves to the ER?
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We rode bikes for about an hour and it was glorious.
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Can bikes really serve as a viable option for that long?
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Below the map, you get a list of the closest bikes.
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Bikes are reduced to faint blue rectangles that look like skateboards.
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Uber looks to improve JUMP's unit economics with next-gen bikes
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Both bikes are expected to ship in October later this year.
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In the book, you stress the difference in Dutch bikes themselves.
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The Redshift bikes accelerate from 0 to 60 in 3.3 seconds.
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The cars know that they are to look out for bikes.
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What do Dutch kids experience early on, in terms of bikes?
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How do bikes fit in with public transit in the Netherlands?
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The bikes were cheap and broke down all over the place.
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Cowboy sells its bikes directly to consumers on its online store.
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And, sometimes, the big red bikes break down or are vandalized.
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The Ariv Merge is the more interesting of the two bikes.
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Cannondale sells e-bikes designed just for mountain bikers and commuters.
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The Brompton name is synonymous with folding bikes the world over.
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Like its pedal-powered cousin, the new bikes require a dock.
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Standard bikes run the risk of chain derailment at the hill.
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It then banned bikes from entering the park the next day.
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And battery fires do not only affect electric bikes and scooters.
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A screengrab of the Bluegogo app, with bikes on the map.
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Scooters and bikes blocked sidewalks, disability access ramps, and green spaces.
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A 1928 statute, they pointed out, required bikes to have locks.
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Unfortunately, it doesn't say if there are bikes or spaces available.
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Yeah, you will get access to your own fleet of bikes.
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Photographs of piles of damaged shared bikes are familiar in China.
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Because we've got the show bikes, where we have no limits.
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"I love riding bikes when I'm in Palm Springs," she said.
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Spin began by peddling shared bikes, but quickly pivoted to scooters.
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" Adds Bush, "I feel like a teenager sometimes on those bikes.
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Anyway, the setting of Knights and Bikes is interesting to me.
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LG: The bikes we're talking about today are not multi-colored.
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This makes the scooters and bikes an ideal in-between solution.
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The company also uses e-bikes and electric scooters for delivery.
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Uber was seeking an exemption on its Chinese-made electric bikes.
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That's a hefty 95 percent discount on its normal pedal bikes.
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For the first time they surpassed e-bikes by nearly 10%.
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"We have sold around 75,000 bikes so far," John Foley explains.
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Getting bikes stolen because you have to lock them up outside?
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Scooter riders take to sidewalks, just as they do on bikes.
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The company already operates about 17,000 traditional bikes in those cities.
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While exercising on VirZOOM's bikes, there are two scenarios happening simultaneously.
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They're not there to ride their bikes out in the sun.
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Go deeper: Peloton CEO John Foley on bikes, revenue and recessions
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This summer, Yellow plans to deploy a total of 100,000 bikes.
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That is compounded by the addition of e-bikes and scooters.
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The besties spent their time drawing pictures, riding bikes and talking.
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Bikes have also had their issues — wonky gears, you might say.
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Zagster's bikes have rust-proof hardware for snowy and wet climates.
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Authorities have thrown bikes in a corner or confiscated them entirely.
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Here's proof they DO make bikes big enough for Shaquille O'Neal!!
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Uber has big stands filled with its Jump scooters and bikes.
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The bikes will be available in the first part of 2020.
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Wider aisles between the seats can accommodate wheelchairs, strollers, or bikes.
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The allure of both road and mountain e-bikes is obvious.
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Traditional bikes, people might use them for zero to two miles.
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A friend and I were riding our bikes in Central Park.
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Media reports said all 18 Energica Ego Corsa bikes were destroyed.
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CycleCast streams audio fitness classes for stationary bikes through its app.
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Peloton's business model doesn't just rely on selling $2,245 stationary bikes.
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But electric bikes, being easier to ride, could streamline the process.
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And bikes in assorted sizes are available for guests to use.
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Trek bikes were used by 275 athletes, and 218 rode Specialized.
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Mountain bikes are suspended from the wall, seemingly as decorative elements.
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In total, Peloton has sold 500,000 bikes and treadmills, it said.
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The bikes are now available in Belgium, Germany, and the Netherlands.
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Why were Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin crying while riding bikes?
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There are also 1,489 bikes available to rent on the island.
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Take Monster Moto's bikes, which sell for between $22 to $3503.
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Some e-bikes can run on electricity alone with no pedaling.
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Some users said bikes were stashed behind apartments in Mountain View.
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I also found several photos of abandoned Google bikes on Instagram.
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About 40% of the company's bikes are sold abroad, per Bloomberg.
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The most expensive items are basic stationary bikes and rowing machines.
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These bikes will also now be both station-based and dockless.
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Riding bikes together, wearing coordinated outfits, and generally just being adorable.
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She bikes to a supermarket where there's a specialty cheese aisle.
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Bring patio furniture, propane tanks, bikes, and other large objects inside.
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The "garage" has axle mounts to secure the bikes in place.
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Peloton acquired a company that manufactures its bikes for $47.4 million.
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Bolt Bikes also offers the first week as a free trial.
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The bright blue bikes were seemingly everywhere in parts of Manhattan.
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As for the transportation there can be cars, taxis, or bikes.
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In Staten Island, regulatory hurdles forced JUMP to remove its bikes.
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"It's a factory that hasn't seen my bikes yet," he said.
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People had complained of bikes flipping over when riders stopped short.
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In the Netherlands, bikes outnumber people 22.5 million to 353 million.
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In the Netherlands, bikes outnumber people, 22.5 million to 353 million.
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Here's what you need to know: Which bikes have the problem?
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"Look at how many shared bikes there are now," she said.
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That would keep bikes circulating, and available wherever people needed them.
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Here's a look at Cycle World's 2016 10 Best Bikes list.
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We like to rent Citi Bikes and pedal around Central Park.
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Leigesasi, Mr. Fan's company, began making Ofo bikes in early 2016.
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Factories were making so many bikes that there was a surplus.
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Lyft bought Citi Bike last year while Uber bought Jump Bikes.
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Y'all come outside the mall, all y'all gonna have new bikes.
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It might be four bikes, y'all gotta take turns on them.
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The section of law also applies to e-bikes, advocates say.
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Imagine if they tried it with the bikes of the past.
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We elbow-bump and take a group photo with our bikes.
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Bikes and scooters exploded in recent years, and not just literally.
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Bikes and scooters exploded in recent years, and not just literally.
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I also use the Peloton bikes before I go to work.
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With a €2,000 (about $2,250) deposit, the bikes are fully customizable.
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I would be able to hunt, ride quads and dirt bikes.
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Though, JUMP recently unveiled its vision for swappable batteries on bikes.
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The company has already launched Jump bikes and scooters in Paris.
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The company renamed itself Jump Bikes and focused on electric bicycles.
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They're really well-made folding bikes that fold up to nothing.
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The difficult part is avoiding the scooters and bikes zooming by.
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It's obvious where Rad Power Bikes is getting its cost savings.
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Yards are cluttered with children's bikes, basketball hoops and satellite dishes.
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Peloton sells pricey exercise bikes and subscriptions for streaming fitness classes.
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Beeline and Velofix also provide services for bikes bought on Amazon.
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A panel of SoulCycle executives, on bikes, would judge their performances.
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Unlike those vehicles, the bikes will not have to pay meters.
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They pack the narrow sidewalks and zip around on multicolored bikes.
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Launching and operating shared bikes and scooters has lost its novelty.
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"We're making a very big bet on e-bikes," Khosrowshahi said.
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The rest of us will comfortably stash bikes and Ikea furniture.
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Wag founders ditch dogs for bikes with $37 million in funding
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Riding the bikes requires only a few taps on a smartphone.
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Most American cities aren't even built for bikes, much less scooters.
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Suddenly he reappears with his friends, all of them on bikes.
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"They take all the bikes around Steve and just pedal away!"
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There are also a lot of Citi Bikes throughout the neighborhood.
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We're guessing the subject of stationary bikes will come up soon.
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They wanted to see the parade, the coffin pulled by bikes.
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A deal with Harley-Davidson would bring together the maker of touring bikes like the Electra Glide that are symbolic of America with a leading European maker whose high-performance bikes have a distinguished racing heritage.
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When Uber shelled out $200 million to acquire JUMP Bikes earlier this year and made dockless bikes and scooters rentable in select cities, it became clear the ride-hailing giant was doubling down on micro-mobility.
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Just this simple change in how the company maintains it fleet of 40,000 bikes (and newly released e-bikes, complete with electric-assist for easier pedaling) is expected to bring in $1 million in annual savings.
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He says he first became aware of e-bikes (or "ped-elec" bikes that combine a manual pedal and electric motor) after being puzzled that they weren't more widely used by Take Eat Easy's bicycle couriers.
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As I've reported before, Google's free bikesharing system in Mountain View, California, has been plagued with vandalism—dozens of bikes have been thrown into a local creek and many residents see the bikes as a nuisance.
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Most models in the United States are pedal-assist e-bikes — they provide an electric boost only when the rider is pedaling, unlike throttle e-bikes, which can provide assistance even when the rider isn't pedaling.
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He recommends upright bikes for those seeking what he calls the "retro urban style" — or bikes resembling the European models of the '60s and '70s that have been updated and modernized so they aren't as heavy.
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Elsewhere, The Hague plans a garage for 8,500 bikes while Amsterdam - with 835,000 people and around 847,000 bikes - is working on a storage space for thousands under the city's Amstel river and linked to its central station.
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In an interview with Mashable, its co-founder Yu Xin, and VP of Ofo's U.S. unit, Grace Lin, revealed that the company is dealing with users mistreating its bikes in China by flooding cities with shared bikes.
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"After they're done riding, they just toss the bikes on the road," said Zhang Jincheng, a Beijing ofo employee who collects scattered bikes - a service bike-share firms are offering in response to complaints from urban residents.
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Still, some in the Netherlands still dream of making bikes ever more free—creating a system in which bikes are not owned by people, or cities, or by companies using them as data-sources, but by themselves.
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American factories do not build any equivalent to these dirt bikes, and raising the prices on them would have directly affected American dealers, American manufacturers of accessories and the American families who buy and use these bikes.
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The idea was that some students would share their bikes with others who would pay to use them, but the founders soon realized their fellow students were more interested in conveniently renting bikes than sharing their own.
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While shared bikes and e-bikes are meant for one-off uses, Hellobike plans to rent out e-scooters for longer swathes of time as many people might want the powered-up vehicles for their daily commute.
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While e-bikes are available for about $500, buyers can expect to pay $2,000 or more for a quality model with a reasonable range and reliable service, said Chris Nolte, the owner of Propel Bikes in Brooklyn.
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In the 1960s and '70s, Husqvarna was best known for dirt bikes -- Steve McQueen rode one -- but the company is now branching out with street bikes like the Svartpilen, which costs about $6,300, and Vitpilenm, about $12,000.
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The bike-share system has 12,000 bikes across Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and Queens and recently announced plans to expand under new ownership by the ride-hail company Lyft, which will triple the number of bikes.
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Ofo bikes are already yellow, so the changes aren't at all drastic.
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Many e-bikes are powered by gear from Bosch, a German conglomerate.
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And, who knows, e-bikes and e-scooters may both evolve further.
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Left unmanaged, bikes can stack up and create more congested pedestrian walkways.
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One of the notes left on bikes in 2004 mentioning April Tinsley.
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The wheel costs about $1,200 and can be fitted on most bikes.
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We went with the bikes we saw the riders racing most often.
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Systrom's personal Instagram feed is basically dogs, coffee, bikes, and grinning celebrities.
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Buy at Yuba Bikes The Yuba Supermarché is the minivan of bicycles.
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The company already manufacturers some bikes for the European market in India.
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Bikes and cars slow down and swerve to avoid the baby cat.
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Who knew Boris bikes made such a great backdrop for fashion week?
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Scooters and e-bikes are also capitalizing on the Election Day rush.
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Bikes with this kind of design could never be able to steer.
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They're available through the same app used to rent the motor bikes.
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E-bikes will return to New York and Washington, DC, this fall.
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Children ride their bikes along pathways and mothers push babies in strollers.
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I've rode the same bikes on the streets that they ride on.
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My ex and this bitch on bikes right in front of me.
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Bernice Dapaah started the Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative a few years ago.
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As I said, e-bikes aren't new; they've been around for decades.
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Young urban commuters in Europe are finally giving e-bikes their attention.
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Bolton didn't actually end up making or selling any of these bikes.
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In the morning, bikes and electric vans haul them to people's doorsteps.
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The bike looks fun, but electric bikes are a dime a dozen.
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This milestone comes just 14 months after Lime deployed its first bikes.
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It means that you are much faster than people using regular bikes.
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"They believe there are large scale organized thefts of bikes," Bertini said.
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In the coming weeks, you'll start to see bikes in these recommendations.
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Kind of like what it did with Jump Bikes before buying it.
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This isn't the first time that bikes have appeared in Lyft's app.
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That means cars, racecars, off-road cars, planes, boats, bikes, and more.
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And non-permitted bikes will be hauled off under the new rules.
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"Bikes have always locked to things," Ericson said in a press release.
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And now the first bike-share fleets featuring e-bikes have arrived.
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Other pieces of equipment will follow, including step machines and stationary bikes.
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Not like 100,000 bikes in New York, and then 20,000 gets stolen.
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But even experienced riders have been hurt on the Lyft e-bikes.
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People treated themselves to mobile phones, solar panels, TVs and dirt bikes.
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Another startup, 3Vbike, shut after almost all its 1,000 bikes were stolen.
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Before Lyft acquired it, Motivate had made its name in bikes alone.
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The bikes, which come in two sizes, retail between $649 and $699.
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In the morning, you'll see bikes loaded with urns going to restaurants.
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Flywheel recently announced that it plans to introduce bikes for the home.
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The app would show them available bikes nearby that can be reserved.
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Except instead of locking to itself, the bikes lock to bike racks.
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The bikes can reach up to 23.8km/h, even on hilly terrain.
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Most of the shared bikes in the past they sell to government.
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Yeah, we ride bikes as kids and then we continue to ride.
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I took kids on a bike thing, then I fixed the bikes.
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The actor is frequently spotted riding around Los Angeles on his bikes.
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But I want you to stay healthy and stay off those bikes!
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Dott also plans to launch a new type of vehicle, e-bikes.
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Wag founders Jonathan and Joshua Viner are leaving dogs behind for bikes.
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She believes bikes line the path to equitable transportation systems for all.
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FloWater customers include Google, Airbnb, Specialized Bikes and, somewhat ironically, Red Bull.
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I have borrowed bikes, cars, books, headphones, and even money without asking.
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Peloton has seen great success with its exercise bikes for home use.
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We're doing the largest smart-bike system in North America [1,500 bikes].
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It offers bikes, motorized scooters, and electric-assist bicycles in 70 cities.
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Are dockless scooters and bikes teaching regulators how to plan for AVs?
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And Lime thinks its shared bikes and scooters can do just that.
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Harley has been shipping bikes across the world from the United States.
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It allows us to test a large number of bikes very quickly.
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So I raced BMX bikes from seven years old through to fourteen.
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There are also presets for specific objects like doors, bags or bikes.
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Peloton's pricey bikes live-stream spin classes, through a subscription based service.
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Unlike most electric bikes, there's no bolt-on battery or bulky motor.
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I owe my neighbors a nice bottle of wine for the bikes.
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Kids battling a monster while cruising around a small town on bikes?
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The idea of selling SoulCycle bikes and then broadcasting from their studios.
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Terms are confidential, but Bjorling says Trek can continue making Farley bikes.
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This year, he hopes to sell half a million U.S.-made bikes.
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Supporters are slated to get their bikes in the summer of 2017.
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It surely helps that I have a lot of experience fixing bikes.
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Pace's bikes lock to objects, which the company says prevents some abuse.
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"No wonder I can't find any shared bikes in Hefei," one quipped.
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LimeBike customers are dumping the bikes in weird places all over Seattle.
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Greyp Bikes announced a new electric bike today called the Greyp G12H.
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Riders don't have to park or pick up bikes at docking stations.
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Dirt bikes, by contrast, have between 250 cc and 400 cc engines.
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I mean, I ride bikes, I do the elliptical, I lift weights.
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He was, in fact, 18, and had been racing bikes for years.
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Holt also debuted a new swappable battery for JUMP's dockless electric bikes.
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Pedestrians also complain that the bikes honk noisily and hog the sidewalks.
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Earlier this week, GM said it will sell electric bikes next year.
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Bublr Bikes, a local bike-share system, has stations all across Milwaukee.
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The tablets that come with Peloton bikes run on an Android software.
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Here are some bikes next to patio furniture and flat-screen TVs.
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The Tour de France bikes are, of course, fast, light, and expensive.
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One of Froome's team cars finally arrived, and he changed bikes again.
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Some festival-goers make their bikes look as funky as their costumes.
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Bike Radar, Kyle's Bikes, and Turbo Bike Trainer also recommend this model.
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Surrey bikes are also a unique activity to participate in while there.
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Since then, the company has developed a whole line of e-bikes.
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And Harley has been developing smaller bikes to appeal to younger riders ...
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But matte-black bikes just haven't inspired us, this year or last.
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"Our particular bikes are set up to run on Diesel," he says.
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Sales of Swedish motorcycles and less expensive Japanese bikes, however, have risen.
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I ride mostly road bikes but recently bought a Silverback mountain bike.
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Bikes also have GPS to help locate them and integrated U-locks.
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ProsConstooRead our full guide to the best exercise bikes you can buy.
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There were bikes everywhere and it seemed like everyone was in costume.
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Anyone can buy systems that hide small motors and batteries inside bikes.
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You rent a bike, thanks to Uber's recent acquisition of Jump Bikes.
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The worker loading bicycles said the vans fit about 14 bikes each.
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"The U.S. has an incredible opportunity to adopt electric bikes," Collins said.
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The bikes will include built-in front and back lights, GM said.
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The company is, however, going to step up its staffing around bikes.
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Folks who want to name the e-bikes can go to www.eBikeBrandChallenge.com.
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Writing by Stefica Nicol Bikes, Editing by Karishma Singh and Michael Perry
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And he said they could get to places that other bikes can't.
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"Eugene bike firms oppose tariffs on components, e-bikes" by Tom Adams.
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Starting today, riders in San Jose will have access to these bikes.
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If approved, this will surely eat into Uber's JUMP bikes market share.
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XPO also uses subcontractors to deliver bikes and treadmills in some cases.
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I have two bikes, a Brompton folding bike and a Burley hybrid.
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Jump already offers electric bikes in Washington, San Francisco and other cities.
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Bring your bikes, let America hear US ROAR for our new President.
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I don't like Google bikes, we won't go into that right now.
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Bounce offers a mix of gasoline and electric bikes on its platform.
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Since June, JUMP has pulled its bikes from at least six markets.
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Meanwhile, San Francisco seems to remain a solid market for JUMP bikes.
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State lawmakers reached a deal to legalize e-scooters and e-bikes.
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When did lawmakers get into the business of regulating bikes and scooters?
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In late 2017, Mayor de Blasio announced a crackdown on electric bikes.
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We'll get into that, but it's less so with scooters than bikes.
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Yeah, there's some tinier — in Los Angeles, there's these teeny little bikes.
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Above, bikes awaiting their riders at the 2018 Ironman World Championship Triathlon.
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The joke — millennials have no money and love toast and sharing bikes!
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I have never seen more than two bikes in a bike lane.
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This town, home to factories that made many of the bikes, prospered.
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A cyclist already brings such rigor to bikes; the philatelist to stamps.
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Cyclists can check in and find their spot while riding their bikes.
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Sometimes it's items of real monetary value, like computers, telephones or bikes.
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The second floor gym, overlooking the street, was equipped with Peloton bikes.
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"Our bikes are usually five to 10 pounds heavier," Radenbaugh tells me.
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Tariffs first hit QBP's Chinese-made e-bikes and motors last summer.
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Those who ride their bikes are taking their lives in their hands.
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I've heard that there are more bikes than people in the Netherlands.
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Our guide includes exercise bikes to fit every budget and every home.
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Residents scurried away with wheelbarrows of belongings and bikes hitched with trailers.
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Trump has publicly said India's high tariffs on such bikes was unacceptable.
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It is still unclear when those bikes will be returned to service.
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It's a new look for Rad Power Bikes' flagship model, the RadRover.
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Though the term ebike refers to an entire industry, the bikes vary.
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In France, the quality of the bikes appears to be an issue.
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The bikes were stolen by the same two men, the police said.
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Its roughly $250,000 bikes and $4,000 treadmills help it command strong margins.
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Lyft returned its e-bikes to the San Francisco market in June.
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After breakfast, we get ourselves and our bikes ready for a ride!
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Self-driving car technology, connected vehicles, and more electric scooters and bikes
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Uber recently pulled its electric Jump bikes from Atlanta and San Diego.
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For years, electric bikes were relegated to niche status in most countries.
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Is Karmic pivoting away from normal-looking e-bikes with the Oslo?
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Bikes will start shipping to preorder customers in March 2020, Juiced says.
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Harley-Davidson has also shown pedaled e-bikes and scooters as concepts.
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Young South Africans raced around on Ninja bikes, shirtless or in bikinis.
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The bikes are worth up to $65,500 combined in the Indonesian market.
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Motocross bikes are loud, stinky and banned on city streets and highways.
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What is he doing locked in a room with only 210 bikes?
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The freight companies will be allowed to use pedal-assisted e-bikes.
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Both bikes will be available for preorder on Indiegogo starting this week.
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Its roughly $2,000 bikes and $23,000 treadmill help it command strong margins.
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They assigned officers to patrol on foot, on bikes and on horses.
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Colin was the math whiz who played guitar and rode bikes competitively.
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The company is also re-tooling (and hopefully improving) their famed bikes.
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GoBee Bike shut down, Ofo still has a few bikes but no team, Mobike is scaling back international operations… That was a bad start for free-floating services, as many broken bikes are littering the streets of Paris.
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So bikes share came in and then scooters came in and all of a sudden they're pulling bikes off the streets because no one was using them or were not using them at the same level as scooters.
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The National Association of City Transportation Officials reported that people took 84 million trips using shared bikes, e-bikes and e-scooters in the United States in 2018, more than double the number of trips taken in 2017.
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Early adopters of Peloton's fitness bikes are in for a pricey upgrade: this week, the company announced via an email to users that it will stop sending updates to bikes using the first generation of its touchscreen monitor.
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In China, the electric bikes have been popular for the past few years, but the easy-to-ride bicycles come with major issues, like sidewalk litter, rampant theft, and mass bicycle graves filled with broken and abandoned bikes.
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While Uber does not have to pay for the costs of expensive docks, the company has to now own and maintain these electric bikes and either hire or contract people to move the bikes around and charge them.
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That's why it decided to offer Lyft an interim permit to operate up to 1,900 of its dockless, hybrid e-bikes in addition to its classic bikes offered through its station-based service, once known as Ford GoBike.
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The bikes, officially labeled Lyft bikes and accessible under the newly rebranded Bay Wheels platform (formerly Ford GoBike), are one of the ride-hailing company's new dockless mobility options, all operated by the Lyft-owned bikeshare company Motivate.
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Ofo, like its competitors, is already working to move bikes to areas with higher demand — sometimes by carting them to a new location, or using monetary incentives to get users to ride or park bikes in specific spots.
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The e-bikes supplied by Rad Power Bikes are equipped with small integrated motors to assist with pedaling, and can run for 25 to 40 miles, depending on the user, before needing a recharge, according to the company.
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"Safety is at the heart of everything we do, and after acts of vandalism on JUMP bikes, we have decided in partnership with the City, to temporarily remove bikes from operation in Providence," Uber spokesperson Harry Hartfield said.
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The pilot program for dockless bikes, using both electric and regular bikes, will start this month in the Rockaways in Queens, in an area near Fordham University in the Bronx and on the North Shore of Staten Island.
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Seattle-based Rad Power Bikes ships its bikes direct-to-consumer, and rather than working exclusively with companies like Bosch and Shimano, it also develops its own custom hub-motor drive trains with a number of different vendors.
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The Shanghai Phoenix Bicycle factory in town took on so many orders for Ofo's bright yellow and black bikes that by 2017 it was churning out 10,22 bikes a day, according to Gao Yuntian, an employee from Shanghai.
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Harley-Davidson told investors in July it expects less sales revenue in 2019 than originally foretasted, and expects to ship about 212,000 to 217,000 bikes in 2019, down 5,000 from its April estimate of 217,000 to 222,000 bikes.
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Inside, one bicycle after another hung from hooks screwed into a beefy ceiling beam: Mr. Sweeney's triathlon bike, road bike and two mountain bikes dangled alongside four bikes belonging to his wife and one of his three daughters.
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Given that the bikes are GPS-enabled and the service is integrated within the Ola app, customers will be able to plan their route better by targeting pick-up or drop-off locations where there are bikes available.
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It's worth noting, however, that Lyft had to pull CitiBike's pedal-assist bikes off the road this past weekend after receiving reports from some riders that the brakes were too strong, resulting in some people falling off the bikes.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission on Friday launched an investigation into the import of electronic bikes (e-bikes) from China after European producers complained that they are being sold at excessively low prices with the help of unfair subsidies.
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By the end of the year, all the five rental services here will have to put in geo-fencing technology in their bikes, to ensure that people park their bikes back at "designated parking zones" — basically, a virtual dock.
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Some urban commuters will be able to justify the $3,299 / €3,199 / £2,899 base price by replacing costly commutes made by car, or by saving on surcharges when taking public transportation (folding bikes are usually free, unlike full-sized bikes).
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Photo: Ringo H.W. Chiu (AP)Lyft has yanked over a thousand electric bikes from rental availability in San Francisco after at least two e-bikes experienced battery fires in the past few days, according to the San Francisco Examiner.
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Unlike the rows of Ford GoBikes available around the Bay Area or Citi Bikes in New York City, which have designated pickup and drop-off locations, dockless bikes like Jump are picked up wherever the last rider left them.
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As the bikes and scooters are driven out of San Francisco, the companies or their customers are migrating their bikes and scooters to the next place where they aren't yet rejected, thus moving the disruption to a new greenfield.
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Like Harley, Royal Enfield has been producing bikes for more than a century.
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Shop bikes on sale at Walmart: Schwinn, Huffy, Roadmaster, and more See Details
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Their characteristics fit even more neatly into rental models than e-bikes do.
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Grandparents send their grandchildren to school on sun and rain-proof e-bikes.
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The flaming bikes in San Francisco are not the first to be reported.
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"They all looked like new bikes, so are probably worth saving," Andrews added.
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You have to try to break the other bikes without hurting the riders.
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"I saw everything burning, including the vans and bikes parked outside," Vimalaretnam said.
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Mobike is unusual in its field also because it makes its own bikes.
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Motivate will start with just 250 e-bikes in the initial launch period.
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OK, so we're moving in the right direction with non-all-black bikes.
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Bikes in the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, D.C. were also affected.
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Then, in August, the pair were seen riding bikes together in Santa Monica.
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The company said it will roll out hundreds of e-bikes each month.
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In April, Lyft pulled all of its electric bikes after riders were injured.
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The market is flooded with battery-powered bikes of all shapes and sizes.
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For years, European e-bikes were used primarily by people 65 and over.
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Most good bikes use torque sensors, while the low-enders have cadence only.
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More importantly, e-bikes can rescue cities from the clutches of car culture.
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Those prices are on par with other high-end e-bikes like VanMoof.
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Dirt bikes taught him to weigh risk and reward and to fall gracefully.
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REI also offers free shipping, assembly, and tune-ups for bikes in-store.
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Some of the most attractive electric bikes hide the battery inside the tubing.
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Motivate estimates the bikes will last about 25 miles on a single charge.
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They currently have 150 customers including Sikorsky Innovation, Boom Aerospace and Trek Bikes.
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But as for Jump's e-bikes, "I'll never touch one again," she said.
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Other riders have crashed, stalled, skidded and fixed their bikes on the fly.
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Photos and footage of the incident showed overturned bikes strewn across the intersection.
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By way of comparison, New York City's Citi Bike has about 12,000 bikes.
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"Micromobility" = autononomous scooters & bikes that can drive themselves to charging or better locations.
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The company uses a lot of steel and aluminium to make its bikes.
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Google is adding a new transit option to Maps: Lime scooters and bikes.
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Today over 95% of bikes sold in America are imported, overwhelmingly from China.
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Cycling is nicer than it was, and rental bikes are more widely available.
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Both services ostensibly aim to democratize access to rental bikes by using technology.
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La Bécanerie has been using Kuzzle for connected bikes with a GPS chip.
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We're already seeing dockless bikes piling up in scrap yards as companies fold.
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In China, abandoned bike-share bikes now fill vast fields outside major cities.
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He's the president of LimeBike, which is applying some new tech to bikes.
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Are users being responsible as if they are parking their own personal bikes?
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KS: You have bikes there, and then but you put them into play.
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LG: There's Jump, and then there's Scoot, which is scooters, not electric bikes.
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Go deeper: How Los Angeles wants to manage bikes and scooters with data
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The effect is a dreamy, lazy afternoon on bikes and at the beach.
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From there, users will see available bikes near them that they can reserve.
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E-bikes do seem to offer more urban mobility versatility than e-scooters.
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Lime currently operates its bikes and scooters in more than 100 cities worldwide.
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Jump has 250 neon-red electric powered bikes scattered across the city today.
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Electric bikes, electric vehicles and power storage are all target markets, they said.
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And bikes can't be accused of exacerbating air pollution or road-based congestion.
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The Jump bikes use electrical assistance so renters do still need to pedal.
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In recent months, Citi Bike added significantly more e-bikes to meet demand.
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VICE: Right, Moo, when did Rex and yourself come up with Knights & Bikes?
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Users can locate and unlock the bikes using an app on their smartphone.
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So there's a big potential market for Uber to crack with e-bikes.
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I work out several times a week, and I hike and ride bikes.
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By next year Amour said Fortified is on track to sell 5,000 bikes.
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The commercial version of Peloton's bikes will be available to buy in spring.
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But that doesn't seem to make the bike-share bikes more crash-prone.
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On my vintage bikes, it's the carburetor's job to mix fuel and air.
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Bikes have been part of the urban transportation system for over a century.
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Yellow intends to use the funding to deploy its first 20,000 dockless bikes.
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Bikes and golf carts are the modes of transportation, and everybody knows everybody.
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He didn't say why, but he's getting some rest and riding some bikes.
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To date, the program has returned over 900 bikes to the Dunkirk community.
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Foley called the bikes "unorthodox" due to their frame shape and unique design.
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In October, Uber deployed JUMP scooters, along with bikes, in Santa Monica, Calif.
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These pictures of a massive pile of bikes in Shenzhen say it all.
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The bikes from Mobike, ofo and Bluegogo have GPS units and are trackable.
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The bikes, belonging to several brands including Mobike and OfO, were mostly broken.
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Indeed, it announced recently that it sold a record 55,000 bikes in 2015.
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We all rode our bikes, and it was very much a small town.
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There were cops on horses, on bicycles, on bikes, in cars, and helicopters.
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Danish bike share operator Donkey Republic has also launched several hundred dockless bikes.
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According to the New York Times, Motivate would soon be renamed Lyft Bikes.
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VanMoof is a company from Amsterdam that wants to change everything about bikes.
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We've got them in our refrigerators, in our beds, and on our bikes.
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A spokesperson also said the e-bikes are designed to last for years.
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But the bikes usually sell out as soon as they come into stock.
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The company sells exercise bikes and treadmills for about $2,000 and $4,000, respectively.
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Uber is raising prices on its Jump dockless electric bikes in several cities.
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London has better infrastructure for bicycles, and electric bikes are much more common.
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Of course, riders can store their bikes in their apartments, if there's room.
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"Our mission is to get a million more people on bikes," she said.
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Later, he moved bikes from Sixteenth Street to a station three blocks south.
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The days were filled with riding bikes through the woods and playing sports.
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Reporting by Stefica Nicol Bikes; Writing by Sonali Paul; Editing by Clarence Fernandez
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Their permit reportedly included approval for two tables, two bikes and jump ropes.
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Importantly, the e-bikes have been customized to hold pizza, drinks and sides.
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So, for the fourth year, we will ride our bikes from Newtown, Conn.
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