Transportation
The Coming Battle Over Electric Bicycles
E-bikes are poised for a boom, but are we ready for them?
Around this time last year, Andy Clarke, president of the League of American Bicyclists, was pedaling home when he experienced a quirky moment of convergence.
Just as he passed a fellow cyclist mounted atop a jaunty penny-farthing bicycle, with its comically mismatched wheels, an electric bicycle zipped past them both. Technologically speaking, it was the past, the present, and the future of the bicycle, all riding side by side, if only for a second.