Does This New Electric Bike Get Your Wheels Turning?

There are plenty of ways to get around a city, to suit nearly every lifestyle: trains, cars, rollerblades and subways. But, the one you may not see on the streets of most urban cities is the electric bicycle.

While motorized bikes, powered by gas or otherwise, are fairly common in places like South America and Asia, powered bicycles haven't really taken off stateside. This is due in large part to their design: Heavy electric bicycles have a high learning curve compared to regular bikes and can, quite unceremoniously run out of batteries. Quite the headache for the urban commuter looking to make it to work with a little extra power in their wheels.

That is, until a promising startup…
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