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Are you ready to cruise the beautiful coastal streets of Newport Beach on an electric bike? 🚴♀️🌊 Here’s a quick guide to the top electric bike companies in the area that can help you find the perfect ride: 1️⃣ **The Electric Bike Company** - Offering custom-built bikes that let you personalize everything from frame color to battery capacity! Talk about making it YOUR bike! 2️⃣ **Pedego Electric Bikes** - With an excellent selection of cruisers, city bikes, and mountain bikes, this brand is known for reliability and stellar customer service. Whether you’re commuting or exploring, they’ve got you covered! 3️⃣ **Newport Beach Electric Bike Rentals** - Perfect for those who want to try before they buy. With rental options starting at just $20 per hour, it’s a budget-friendly way to experience the thrill of electric biking. 🗣️ Customer reviews rave about the knowledgeable staff and the quality of the bikes at these companies. It’s great to know you’ll be in good hands! ✨ Pro Tip: Always check for seasonal discounts and group rates to save on rentals or purchases, especially if you're hitting the beach with family or friends! What’s your favorite way to explore Newport Beach? Have you tried an electric bike? Share your experiences below! 👇 #ElectricBikes #NewportBeach #BikeLife #SustainableTransport #ExploreMore #CustomerExperience

Interesting piece. What I can say for certain from my own, personal, door-to-door journey times is this: Cycling to/from work: 11-14 mins Walking to work: 50 mins Getting the bus to/from work: 25-85(!!) mins https://lnkd.in/ersDxK9U

The premise of bike share is simple: you can rent a bicycle for a few minutes, hours, or even a day, resulting in a low-cost option for commuting that doesn’t require an investment in expensive equipment. Read more about bike shares in our latest blog post, and check out Memphis' very own Explore Bike Share! 🚲

Hi, We launched new bikes with Ampler Bikes. And as the self-proclaimed number-one fan of Ampler, I take all our new 2-wheelers for a test ride to give you firsthand feedback. Though I usually prefer a diamond frame and have been riding my G1 Curt since 2018, the new Curt Anyroad in low-step is just a dream (yes, I might be a bit biased, of course, but I'm also an everyday city commuter and a weekend gravel rider). The new Curt Anyroad in low-step might be my favourite Ampler yet. So here are my test ride results from Berlin: ⚡ Firstly, the bike is just beautiful. I'd be happy to roll on it to a formal event in a dress, cruise around doing my errands in the city, or go for an off-road forest ride on the weekend. (...and I mean...It also photographs super nicely 💁♀️ ). ⚡ Secondly, it's smooth and comfortable, so riding any terrain on top of asphalt was a breeze. I took the shortcuts in Kreuzberg by the canals, and anyone who's ever ridden those roads knows that unexpected roots and stones pop up everywhere. ⚡ Thirdly, it's so light (16,9 kg) that if there is any staircase on the way (and there were plenty in Berlin), I am able to lift it and carry it to continue my journey with ease. ⚡ Last but not least, our bikes have connectivity, so I don't have to worry about someone taking my pretty bike without permission. So, as biased as it might sound, as I'm so deep in the Ampler world, I give this bike a 10/10 and hope it will make lots of commuters happy in the years to come. So take the road less travelled, or not. The Curt Anyroad can take it. 

As an Amsterdammer who's lived in Portland, my gut says hell yes, it's possible for everyone to cycle as much as the Dutch! As a Miami native, I can envision the rolodex of reasons why it's impossible to transform a major city into a bike city. But I'd like to share a personal story of hope. I've lived in Manhattan twice. When I first moved to Manhattan I inherited a Tommy Bahama beach cruiser bike. It was 2010-ish and hardly any bike lanes existed. The 'bike lane' that existed near me was on a big four-lane avenue. It was more like a suggested path for delivery trucks, parked cars and delivery bikers. It should've been more safe for those people but alas, it was not. But this was the path, so it was the one I took. It took all of 20 minutes before a cab pulled into the lane. The passenger swung the door open, obstructed my path, and froze as I slammed into the metal door. This is what biking in Manhattan was like in 2010. After 10 years I moved back and the city had invested in bike rentals & paths. Rental stations were all around Central Park. Most bike lanes had medians and parked cars that separated them from car traffic. Infrastructure was better and safer. Then COVID hit in 2020. I, and everyone else, felt terrified to go in the subway. Biking was my only way to safely adventure and gain a sense of sanity. COVID forced a cultural shift and *desire* to bike. I biked over bridges, to the ferry, around the circumference of Manhattan, and knew which bike stations would have spots to park. Biking became a lifestyle choice. The city transformed -- how its citizens moved around, how many streets were blocked off and what we saw could be with this new perspective. And this isn't new. When cities block off their highways and major streets on Sundays to encourage walking, biking and roller skating, it shifts culture and perspective. We don't need an awful tradegy like a pandemic to shift behavior. Restriction creates new possibilities. It's so easy to reject the notion or brush off the idea that an American city like Miami could transform into a bike city (per my rolodex of reasons) but it is possible. We may not know how or the amount of time it'd take, but let's just start with imagining it. Curious what European placemaking experts think humankind CityChangers.org PlacemakingX Credit: Imagine5 their Vol 2 article "What if we all cycled like the Dutch?" #socialdesign #socialimpact #sustainability #placemaking ---- 👋 I’m Michelle Arrazcaeta 💭 Founder, strategist, coach, speaker at Super Good Society 💡 Helping changemakers flourish with clarity and joy ➕ Follow or DM for more

Trendwatching: mobility diversification opponents crying wolf / portraying straw men. Dutch people riding bikes are exactly the same normal people taking trains, driving cars, or walking. To paint people on bikes as a prototype "cyclist" with one brush stroke, is as sophisticated as to claim all people wearing jeans are miners because that's what jeans were made for. This will be exactly the same in the UK, France, Spain, China, Mexico... insert any country name. As much as I enjoy sport cycling, when I am riding a city bike I am not at all interested in being "a cyclist", than I am wanting to destroy the tires of my car being "a track racer" when I drive my car in the city. Sure, there are jerks that believe that the city is their personal car racecourse. Luckily they're a minority and do not in any way represent the vast majority of drivers. To claim that would be absurd... who is a "racer" in a 65 or even 90hp car? (Although we do so willingly smooth over the offences of drivers for being "us": speeding, red light running, illegal parking, and so on). The very same applies to users of bikes, whose equal misbehaving is blown entirely out of proportion with reality, to feed a fear driven keep-everything-as-it-is type philosophy. Perhaps those using oversimplified portrayals of a idealised enemy, expose a disconnect with reality in their thoughts and claims about people who chose to move around on bikes. These tiresome claims will run out of an audience, once using a bike to get around becomes normative.

It may seem logical that fewer bike lanes will reduce traffic congestion for cars, but it turns out that's not true. Every person you see cycling is one less car clogging up the road. One way to become better informed about this is to look at other cities who have successfully built more bike lanes and seen improvements in traffic congestion as well as economic development. There are lots of European examples, but a more comparable city is Montreal. Montreal has seen a significant and steady increase in bicycle trips as its built out its bike lane network, which is now extensive. Some routes are seeing almost 5,000 cyclists per day. About 1/3 of the cyclists continue to ride in winter months, even with Montreal's colder and snowier winters. The result has been a reduction in the volume of cars, reducing traffic congestion and carbon emissions, and increasing economic development as more people are able to get to stores and businesses. If you're a driver who never plans to ride a bike to work, there's nothing wrong with that. Imagine 5,000 fewer cars to contend with on your commute because others choose to cycle thanks to safe and protected bike lanes.

Have you ever wondered, “What is the right bike for me?” There are many categories of mountain bikes, from hardtail to 200mm travel downhill bikes. If you can only afford one, what should it be? Here is my advise on choosing your ultimate mountain bike based on the trail type using the Canfield Lithium and Scott Spark 910 as examples. Read more in my latest blog post: https://lnkd.in/gR-s7p3Z

Ever wondered how a Cycle City Bike Rental differs from Bike Share Services? While bike shares are great for quick rides under 30 minutes, Cycle City offers the freedom to explore at your own pace. Bike shares: -charge by the minute -only carry one or two types of bikes -are serviced periodically -who knows when that helmet was last cleaned 😬 Cycle City Rentals: -offer discounts for longer rentals (half day, full day +) -have a large selection of bikes including e-bikes, road bikes, youth, trailers, tandems, and more -are upgraded and serviced constantly -offer friendly service & recommendations for your route Plus, our rentals come with a complimentary helmet, lock, basket or handlebar bag, and a map. So why not make a day of it? 🚲🗺️ #CycleCityExperience https://lnkd.in/gvRQHHvB

I probably have about 4 silly arguments a week on here with mostly middle aged, affluent, suburban dwelling blokes on here who love to a) complain about traffic congestion and b) blame much of it on bike lanes that nobody uses. It's proper nonsense stuff and I kinda enjoy seeing where the argument goes, not really expecting to change their minds. But anyway, while they tell us nobody rides bikes in cities, the data tells us something different. More people are riding bike shares. Why? Because when you create better cycling infrastructure, more people ride bikes. We're doing a decent job on bike lanes so far, but have a way to go on bike parking. That's kinda what's so appealing about bike share. The next challenge is going to be keeping it up. The bike shares need more bikes and more docks. We could also make the charging infrastructure better for ebikes so less of them sit empty with the red light on. Places like Toronto have a long way to go to catch up with the leading cities here, but we're finally going in the right direction. Now, time to fix some of the broken bits of public transit so the bike shares become a complement to the system, rather than sometimes what you use when the bus doesn't turn up or the subway goes down. https://lnkd.in/gEtrqEjU