Do electric bikes make you fitter?
Posted by admin on September 5, 2013
eCycling up Mt Wellington
Posted by admin on January 31, 2011

More importantly, it was a very enjoyable day of e-bike riding, amazing scenery and a great opportunity to meet the enthusiastic and committed local dealers of Glow Worm Bicycles."
Chat with e-bike guru Maurice Wells
Posted by admin on January 28, 2011
Electric versus postie bike
Posted by admin on January 4, 2011
Continuing our comparison of various forms of transport, I thought we'd take a look at postie bikes. The Honda CT110 is a great little motorbike that is small and agile and easy to handle. It's perfect for small trips around town, but can also manage 80kph (just) on bigger roads. Let's look at some figures.
Honda CT110 Postie Bike
Price: $1200 (secondhand)
Running costs: $280/year rego (in Tasmania)
$125/year comprehensive insurance (from NRMA, 3rd party isn't much cheaper)
$? maintenance
$2.15/100km (based on 60km/L)
Emissions: 3.8 kgCO2-eq/100km
If you refer back to our previous post looking at petrol-powered bikes
Electric versus petrol-powered
Posted by admin on January 4, 2011
Today we had a customer who was looking for a petrol-powered bike. He didn't seem concerned with the environmental cost of a petrol bike (much better than a car, though!) but it got me thinking as to how an it would stack up against an electric bike on purely economic terms.
Rotary Bicycles in Brisbane sells what appear to be good quality road-legal petrol-powered bikes. Let's compare their Sport model against our eZee Torq.
Rotary Bicycles Sport
Top speed: 25 kph
Range: 123.5 km
Weight: 30 kg
Running cost: $2/100km
Emissions: 3.5 kgCO2-eq/100km
Price: $2200
eZee Torq
Top speed: 30 kph
Range: 50 km
Weight: 25 kg
Running cost: $0.15/100km
Emissions: 0.53 kgCO2-eq/100km (using Victorian brown coal, the dirtiest in Aus)
Price: $2300
So for much the same initial outlay, the petrol-powered bike has a significantly better range, but is a bit slower and heavier. But the big difference is that it costs over 10 times as much to run, and is at least 7 times more polluting.
Bottom line: an electric bike is cheaper and more environmentally friendly to run.
Meet A2B designer Norbert Haller
Posted by admin on December 14, 2010
Jay Leno likes his A2B Metro
Posted by admin on November 2, 2010
Here Jay Leno's reviews the A2B Metro.
A2B Metro Review
Posted by admin on October 28, 2010
The first ride on the A2B Metro was a ball. I learned a lot about how a light electric vehicle works for urban commuting.