Hybrid bike design optimization

Grist | Jun. 1, 2007 (Opinion)

I spent last weekend building the ultimate electric hybrid bicycle for Seattle riding. My first bike was more or less a prototype that taught me all I needed to know to put this one together.

Note how similar this bike looks to the $7,000 bike featured in a recent New York Times article. Similar design parameters usually lead to similar designs. That is why most airliners have two wings, engines mounted on pylons under those wings, and three tail ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Julian Friedland - Jun 1, 2007 - 10:42 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Julian Friedland (review), Kaizar Campwala (review), Jami Dwyer (review)
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Edited by: Julian Friedland - Jun 1, 2007 - 10:51 PM PDT

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Kaizar Campwala
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Oct. 1, 2008

This is interesting, but not news in that the implications for the rest of the world (including me) are not make explicit.

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Julian Friedland
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 by Julian Friedland - Oct. 1, 2008
Julian posted this story.
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Jami Dwyer
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 by Jami Dwyer - Oct. 1, 2008

Interesting look at engineering cheaper, better clean transport for people who won't otherwise ride a bike, but some promotional language also could be read as a sales pitch, even though I doubt that's what Grist is about (I'm still suspicious from a weird hybrid bike story last night). Also, the bike won't necessarily be carbon neutral when the electric power is used, depending on where it's plugged in.

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