I love being ahead of the curve

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I bought my EZee Sprint bike about 4 years ago - it's a bike with an electric motor and battery, and a throttle. Vroom vroom! When you hit a hill, turn on the throttle, work a bit, switch to a lower gear, and don't kill yourself. Downhill, turn off the throttle and just go with it. On the flat lands, work a bit, and then when you want a rest, throttle up and zoom past the people you are with!

So now, everybody's looking at electric bikes:

TECHNOLOGY has eliminated many of life’s milder physical demands, like getting off the couch to change the channel, or going to the store to buy a book.

The latest exertion to be conquered: biking uphill.

Electric bicycles — a regular pedal-driven bike with a motor for steeper slopes and an optional extra boost — is an idea that has been around for more than a century. But while e-bikes have caught on in certain parts of the world, particularly China, where tens of millions are sold each year, they have never quite captured the imagination of auto-obsessed Americans.

That may be about to change. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month, Sanyo, the Japanese electronics maker and a major producer of car batteries, showed off a sleek, lightweight e-bike called the Eneloop Hybrid Bicycle.


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