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M55 electric bike takes the work out of cycling

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - 7:14am

The M55 EVO-001 is, according to the manufacturer, the "Ferrari of electric bikes." Well, I don't know about that. But it is one slick electric bicycle. It's got an electric motor on board to make pedaling a strictly optional activity,...

Formula-One-designed bike will set you back $34,000

Thursday, February 25, 2010 - 10:01am

What makes a bike worth $34,000? Well, it helps if it was designed by Formula-One engineers. It also helps if it's the "most technically advanced training device ever." The entire bike is made from carbon fiber, and it's loaded up...

Yale engineering geeks actually reinvent the wheel

Michael Trei

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 12:08pm

Some designs are so fundamentally perfect, that there's little point in trying to improve them. The wheel probably sits right at the top of that list, to the point where the expression 'reinventing the wheel' is used to describe this...

Exercise gets geeky with a laptop mounted on your bike

Michael Trei

Thursday, February 11, 2010 - 2:42pm

Finding time to exercise can be tough if you spend your working hours sitting at a computer, so blogger Chris Gardener mounted a laptop on his stationary exercise bike, so he could pedal and work at the same time. You...

RollerGen charges your devices with pedal power

Michael Trei

Sunday, February 7, 2010 - 7:56am

When I was a kid, I had dynamo powered lights on my bike. They worked great as long as you were moving along, but quickly dimmed if you slowed down or stopped. Now a California company called High Tide Associates...

Honda bicycle simulator teaches safety without all the scrapes

Kevin Hall

Monday, November 23, 2009 - 10:24am

Some lucky folks in Japan will be able to learn about bike safety using Honda's fancy simulator setup you see above, rather than flying over their handlebars and developing forehead welts the size of golf balls. (Thanks, dad!) While it...

New fixie concept bike: ugly, and useless

Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 4:40am

No denying that fixed-gear bikes have a certain appeal, but this new stripped-down bike has little to make it appealing beyond the lack of a chain. There is so much wrong with this bike &#8212 where do we begin? The...

Is a motorcycle still a motorcycle if it has four wheels?

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 8:32am

The 2010 Cosmos 4RW V8 Muscle Bike is one crazy-looking motorcycle, but I can't help but think it's not technically a motorcycle. I mean, it has four wheels, albeit very close together. I don't think it'd be possible for it...

Yikes! It's the foldable Yike Bike

DVICE Staff

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 2:03am

A snip at around $6,000, and available mid-2010, the Yike bike is an electric cycle that comes from New Zealand. The most awesome thing about this 21-pound bike (apart from those cool red, amber and green lights on the handlebars)...

Hidemax bike looks like it's too flexible to ride

Michael Trei

Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 8:41am

Bike design has seen a lot of refinement over the last twenty years, but a new tweak is only going to be successful if it follows the basic laws of physics. Any structural engineer will tell you that a round...

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M55 electric bike takes the work out of cycling

Formula-One-designed bike will set you back $34,000

Yale engineering geeks actually reinvent the wheel

Exercise gets geeky with a laptop mounted on your bike

RollerGen charges your devices with pedal power

Honda bicycle simulator teaches safety without all the scrapes

New fixie concept bike: ugly, and useless

Is a motorcycle still a motorcycle if it has four wheels?

Yikes! It's the foldable Yike Bike

Hidemax bike looks like it's too flexible to ride

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