{"id":14550,"date":"2014-05-07T02:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=14550"},"modified":"2014-04-04T21:41:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T04:41:43","slug":"electricbike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/electricbike\/","title":{"rendered":"ElectricBike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the least-noticed but fastest-moving sectors of technology is electric bikes. Every week a new innovation is released, altering the field, making it difficult to keep up. By far the keenest intelligence on new ebike stuff is Eric Hicks. Eric attends the bike shows, visits the workshops of the leading inventors, and most impressively, he personally rides and reviews in great depth just about every ebike made. He publishes his very fair and impartial findings and reviews on his blog, ElectricBike.com. He really knows his stuff and is eager to help others decide which ebikes to get. ElectricBike is where I go to find out what&#8217;s worth considering at the moment. His archive covers just about any electric bicycle built, including a lot of small-time builders and prototypes.<\/p>\n<p>I used Erick&#8217;s suggestions in finding a touring electric bike that would take me 50 miles a day. (I got a Gruber pedal assist, which was perfect for what I wanted.) A year later even better choices were available. <\/p>\n<p>As of 2013, ebikes are huge in China, big in Europe but still only the bleeding edge in the US. An electric bicycle is a great choice for urban commuters, and okay for fanatic mountain trail riders, but not quite prime time for long road touring. What&#8217;s the difference between an ebike and an electric motorcycle? Good question. ElectricBike is the place to drill down into this emerging world of cheap electric powered transportation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2014\/04\/ebike2.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2014\/04\/ebike2.jpg\" alt=\"ebike2\" width=\"475\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2014\/04\/ebike2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2014\/04\/ebike2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/files\/2014\/04\/ebike2-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ebike clearinghouse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14553,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14550\/revisions\/14553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}