Electric Bikes
Cris Weaver of Boulder, Colorado urges Mother Earth News readers to choose electric bicycles as a form of alternative transportation.
December/January 2005
By the Mother Earth News editors
From Dear Mother — Dec/Jan 2005
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I read your magazine on a regular basis, but I have never seen anything about electric bicycles. I commute on one manufactured by Optibike in Boulder, Colo., and have had tremendous luck with it. With your article this month on hybrids, I think you should cover the human/electric hybrids that truly are the future of transportation and that get the cost equivalent of 1,500 miles per gallon! My bike even came with a year’s worth of wind power included in the price. I do not even own a car since buying my bike! Help spread the word!
Cris Weaver
Boulder, Colorado