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Hinton Bikes has tasked itself with producing a folding electric bike the size and weight of an “airline carry-on bag”. 18 months into the project, the company are working on the second version of the prototype frame alongside developing the integrated electrics – with a combined weight of sub 13kg. Co-founders Dave Henderson and Alex …

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Market figures just released by RAI show the first increase in the volume of new bicycles sold in the Netherlands since 2007. With 957,000 units sold overall, sales of new cycles during 2017 are up 3.2% on the previous year. Of that total, 294,000 were electric bikes – a market share of almost 1 in …

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Pedelecs member and longtime cyclist, Zakventis, contacted us to share his story of the “life-changing” effect of taking delivery of a Trek electric bike: I have cycled all my life, beginning with a Raleigh 3-speed bike given to me at age 12 (in 1959) with the comment: “It fell off the back of a lorry!” …

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The AUTORQ system made its first appearance on Momentum Electric‘s bikes back in 2012, when founder Ying-Tsao Tan’s ambition was to create simplified, intuitive assistance from a torque-sensing system. In 2017 Tan launched a second strand to the business in supplying their re-engineered AUTORQ electrical system to other brands. Momentum Electric say they are redefining …

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Lincolnshire-based Batribike have formed a new company with Jesper Lundqvist, CEO of Danish e-bike company Pro-Movec. With both companies operating in the market for ten years, the newly-formed and co-owned Batribike Ltd expects the new “closer partnership” to pave the way for business growth in an evolving market by harnessing “better links to manufacturing”. The …

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This week an industry group gathered in Brussels for the first time to combat the potential fallout from an ongoing EU ‘anti-dumping’ investigation into electric bikes imported from China. The collective are concerned that restrictive trade measures could be imposed on Chinese electric bikes imported into the EU as a result. The investigation stems from …

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