| As Electric Bike Technology Leaps Ahead month | | | | happening everyday. |
| after month, Britain and Western Europe are slowly | | | | There are now a handful of really innovative British |
| waking up to this new and exciting form of | | | | bike makers like the following as electric bike |
| short-distance transport. Is it truly revolutionary, or just | | | | technology leads ahead further: |
| another passing fad? | | | | Powabyke produces thousands of ebikes for local |
| Fads don't normally sell in multiples of millions, yet | | | | commuters, authorities and police forces. The |
| electric bikes are selling better than iPods in some | | | | Bath-based company recently backed 66 year old |
| areas of the world like China. In fact most of Asia | | | | Eddie Sedgemore - the man told he would never walk |
| seems to be catching onto the concept, streets ahead | | | | again - in breaking the World Record for the Longest |
| of the rest of the world including Europe and North | | | | Distance on a Motorized Bicycle, criss-crossing the UK |
| America. | | | | covering almost 2,000 miles on a Powabyke. |
| The innovators in China have seen mass-produced | | | | Go Cycle is a the result of Richard Thorpe's work at |
| electric bicycles through their early development, and in | | | | Karbon Kinetic - a firm focused on creating light |
| recent years exporters have seen the best of these | | | | electric vehicles. The Go Cycle e-bike is the first of |
| shipped and sold worldwide. But the Europeans and | | | | many products to be rolled out; here the Gadget |
| Americans are now playing catchup especially as | | | | Inspectors get excited about this electric innovation. |
| people are realizing how much they could save. | | | | Cytronex has introduced what it dubs as "the World's |
| Electric bicycles are no longer in prototype stage; there | | | | Lightest Electric Bike". Weighing in as little as 12.9kg |
| are a few dozen and growing number of UK | | | | (about the weight of a small child) Cytronex bikes are |
| producers of British electric bikes, carrying on the work | | | | becoming more and more popular, particularly around |
| originally developed by their Chinese counterparts. | | | | the South. They're eBikes have been featured on BBC |
| Further innovations in strength and lightness of the | | | | Radio Solent, the Gadget Show and several |
| bikes construction, their batteries and visual appeal are | | | | publications including the Daily Echo. |