my name is mwd

It troubles me slightly that one of my favourite pastimes, motorbiking, is not the most green of hobbies to have, even given the relative efficiency of bikes compared to cars. So, I occasionally wonder whether I should setup an electric bike company, as all the interest in realistic electric vehicles has so far been dominated in the car field.

However, perhaps Electric Motorsport’s GPR-S (no, not a phone, despite the name) means I don’t have to. It looks a bit ugly, but for $8000 you can get a bike that’ll do up to 70 mph and do up to 60 miles on a single charge. Not quite ready for touring the world, but a good start.

Still a way to go, but at least the bike world is starting to see the credible options that the car world is promising. One thing that is nice is that they’re innovating on a single front, which I think gives it more chance of success – a lot of things like this try and go too new I suspect to get accepted.