by admin | Feb 20, 2014 | Optibike News
The use of electric bicycles as an alternative means of transportation dates back as far the 1890’s believe it or not, beginning with rudimentary DC motors mounted on rear hubs. Today, it is estimated that between 10 and 20% of all bicycles used in many major cities...
by admin | Jan 22, 2014 | Optibike News, The Electric Bike Book
This is Part 3 in our Understanding Electric Bike Batteries Series. In this lesson we learn the difference between high energy and high power batteries and why electric bikes need high energy batteries. In Lesson 1 we learned how energy is measured in watt-hrs and...
by admin | Dec 3, 2013 | Optibike News, Other fun stuff
Guest blog post from Kevin Bell at Boulder B Cycle To run a successful bike-sharing program, like Boulder B Cycle, a number of key components need to come together—chief among them are system balancing, maintenance, and marketing. Our partnership with Optibike this...
by admin | Nov 12, 2013 | Fitness, Health, Weight loss
It’s that time of year again, Holidays are just around the corner and you know you will want to make a commitment to yourself again, as you do every year, to finally lose the weight and keep it off. With all the gimmicks and lose weight quick schemes, it’s hard to...
by admin | Oct 29, 2013 | Blogs by Optibike Team, Fitness
Hey everyone, Kyle here (Production Manager at Optibike) following up from the last blog post “The World’s Highest Performing Electric Bike”. I talked about how Optibike is made of only the highest quality of parts made in the USA and how these bikes are great for on...