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China's New Craze: E-bikes
lawrencekhoo writes "I was in Shanghai recently, and found to my surprise that bicycle crazy China is now electric bicycle crazy. Electric bikes were everywhere, and outnumbered normal bikes on the road. You could even buy them in the department stores.
Basic
models sell for about 1200 Yuan (about US$150), and more
elaborate
scooter-like
models
for up to 5000 Yuan. Apparently, this craze has been
building up for a few years.
Something like it is even
happening in parts of the US.
According to one user, electric bikes are popular because they're cheap, and can take you all around town on one charge. Who would have guessed that China would lead the way in green transportation?"
in China it's RED transportation.
Oh, Mother Nature needs a favor? Well, maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival and now she wants to quit because she's losing? Well, I say hard cheese!
Sigs are like bumper stickers.
Color: yellow, red, green, blue, silver, etc.
So, whats the etc. for? are they trying to say it can be any color as long as its a color.
... this bike would make a particularly juicy target for thieves.
;)
That's a great point. Perhaps someone should invent a quick-release motor so you can take it with you when you need to leave your bike outside... Erm, I'm only half-kidding too...
You are probably one of them. The majority of Americans are easily-fooled boobs who believe in silly and trendy "man-made global warming" theories.
Global warming is a reality: we are coming out of an ice-age cycle, and the heating has not peaked yet.
"Of course Russia wants to oppose Kyoto "
The oil reserves have absolutely nothing to do with it. Russia opposes Kyoto because they are one of the countries not bamboozled by the junk science.
"You like to see Dick Cheney be very rich and you like to pay lots of money at the pump for your gas."
Americans actually pay way too much for gas: much more than the real value. Get rid of the special taxes (tax gas like everything else) and the price at the pump would plummet.
"But you just make America look pathetic when you actually try to deny global warming."
Learn some facts. Global warming is real, the idea that it is caused by humans is utterly unfounded.
When the average temperature went up 1 degree C between 7,200 B.C.E. and 7,193 B.C.E. what happened then? Did the mammoth blame the sabre-tooth? Or was it Republicans with time machines? Dratted Dick Cheney! He used time machine and melted the glaciers! (I only bring up Dick Cheney, who has nothing at all to do with this subject, because you did first)
"make foolish psuedo-scientific statements is just lame"
Exactly.... but you did anyway.
These bikes can carry a rider weighing up to 75-100 kg (about 200 lbs.) Thus, majority of potential users here will be excluded. They would simply break the bike :-)