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Jim Turner presenting at The ASTER Foundation Sustainable Transportation Conference

Optibike founder Jim Turner will be presenting at The ASTER Foundation Sustainable Transportation Conference in Broomfield Colorado on Friday October 11th. He will be discussing “The Future of Electric Bikes”. Jim is well suited to giving a presentation on E…

Jim Turner - Inventor and Founder of OptibikeOctober 8, 2013

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The Electric Bike Book is available for download

In The Electric Bike Book author Jim Turner gives us an informative and entertaining look at the rapidly expanding world of electric bicycles. Forget the do-it-yourself garage projects with clunky motors mounted on heavy cruiser bikes. The reality is that…

Jim Turner - Inventor and Founder of OptibikeFebruary 2, 2013

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Optibike at the Steve Winwood Concert

By Jim Turner Last night my family and I were invited to the Steve Winwood concert in Denver. Steve’s manger, James has been an Optibike rider for many years and they provided us some great tickets in the center, just…

Jim Turner - Inventor and Founder of OptibikeNovember 23, 2012

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Exert from “The Power of Electric Bikes”

Exert from “The Power of Electric Bikes” by Jim Turner BATTERIES The Battery is The Gas Tank The key to any electric vehicle is the battery and how much energy it can hold. The battery is the gas tank. The…

Jim Turner - Inventor and Founder of OptibikeNovember 15, 2012

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The Relationship Between Battery Cycle Life and Mileage

A battery can easily outlast the vehicle it is in. Let’s assume you own an electric car. If your car can travel 300 miles per charge and you can recharge it 1000 times, that battery pack will last 300,000 miles.…

Jim Turner - Inventor and Founder of OptibikeOctober 14, 2012

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An Adventure- The US Pro Challenge Optibike Style

I always love an adventure with my two boys. The arrival of the US Pro Challenge in Boulder on August 25th was to present one of those opportunities. I had never watched a Pro cycling event live, in my life.…

Jim Turner - Inventor and Founder of OptibikeSeptember 13, 2012

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Battery Capacity and How it is Measured

As a consumer, the new world of electric vehicles continues to require us to learn a new vocabulary. Last issue, we learned about how volts and amps are like water flow. In this issue we will learn how to determine…

Jim Turner - Inventor and Founder of OptibikeSeptember 13, 2012

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Volts, Amps, Watts- What do they mean?

We are all familiar with miles per gallon for gasoline vehicles, but there is a new vocabulary used with electric vehicles. This vocabulary is often confusing, because we are not familiar with it. It is necessary to understand this new …

Jim Turner - Inventor and Founder of OptibikeAugust 22, 2012

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Optibike Development History

After first investigating hub motors in 1996, Optibike developed this first mid drive unit 12 years ago in 1997. This unit featured 24 volts with a 15 amp -hr lead acid battery and about 350 watts of power. The…

Jim Turner - Inventor and Founder of OptibikeJuly 30, 2012

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Optibike MBB Outperforms Hub Motors Three to One

The Optibike MBB is the highest performance and most efficient electric assist propulsion system unit in the world today. The Optibike patented Motorized Bottom Bracket (MBB) drive system gives higher top speed and steeper hill climbing ability than hub motors…

Jim Turner - Inventor and Founder of OptibikeMarch 14, 2012

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