![]() ![]() Under this law, passed in 2002, a class of vehicle called a low-speed electric bicycle was created and that we market today, giving us the benefit of not needing all the standard motor vehicle requirements like turn signals, headlights and a speedometer that a motor cycle or motor scooter would need. LP: When eBikes came about a federal law was passed that classified them as bicycles and not motor vehicles. LP: Those had internal combustion engines and they became very popular here for a short time in the mid 1970’s, but they faded away because they were not particularly efficient, and you had to have registration and license and so on.ĭnA: Why don’t you need a license for an eBike? ![]() Being a cyclist I thought that I wouldn’t ride something that looked really foreign and we achieved that by integrating the battery and other electronics into the frame and bikes design, so it looked as much like a normal bike as possible.ĭnA: What is the difference between an eBike and a moped? LP: I started IZIP as a brand (Pizzi spelt backwards, less one z) and we started designing electric bikes that looked like bicycles. I noticed that eBikes had gone mainstream in the Netherlands and had spread to Germany. LP: IZIP is a brand that I created in 2005 and it was still pretty early on in the eBike phenomenon. He was way out in front in the eBike revolution.Ĭurrie is not really a brand its a technology and we put it into all our drive systems, which we call Currie Electro-Drive. Malcolm Currie, who invented a propulsion system he hoped he could sell to bike companies. LP: Currie Technologies is a development company created in late 1990s by Dr. The bike was designed by Taiwanese-born, Art Center-educated Daniel Shiau, above, who joined Currie Tech early last year.ĭnA spoke with Larry and Daniel and learned about how a lifelong bicyclist became an eBike evangelist, the challenges of reinventing the (bicycle) wheel and just how far an eBike can take you.ĭnA: Your products come with two brand names, Currie Tech and IZIP. The E3 Metro, designed to be utilitarian, recently won 2014’s prestigious Cycle Design and Innovation Award at the Taipei Cycle Show, one of the world’s biggest bicycle fairs. One of the Southland manufacturers that saw the potential for the putting the ‘e’ in bicycles is longtime cyclist Larry Pizzi (below right), president of Currie Technologies and founder of the brand IZIP, the Simi Valley-based eBike company that will display its E3 Metro at KCRW’s Reinventing The Wheel event Sunday. But the electric motor-assisted bicycle is coming into its own. Main brands of Bike Attack are: SCOTT, Cannondale, Orbea, Bianchi, Aventon, Intense Cycles, Izip, Diamondback, Virtue, E-Lux, Surface604, Magnum, Addmotor, Bosch, M1 Sporttechnik, Tern, Monday Motorbikes, Kasen, Mokwheel, Favorite, Vonax, Cooler Kub and many more.Ask a hardcore cyclist about eBikes and he or she will likely be dismissive. Bike Attack has the most experience and technical knowledge in the electric bike industry, and is popular as a distributor, manufacturer and e-Bike retailer.īike Attack Electric sells, services and rents a wide variety of Electric Bicycles: pedal assist bikes, e-bikes with throttle, hybrid bikes, ladies bikes, road bikes, mountain bikes, folding bikes, fat bikes, city bikes, speed bikes, cargo bikes, box bikes and commuter bikes.īike Attack Electric's long history working with many different brands and manufacturers since 2007 gives them a huge advantage over other retailers who joined the trend when Bike Attack was already ahead of the time.īike Attack sourced the best brands with the longest warranty and services all their bikes and countless other bikes bought to them from their competitors. It's long history dealing with different kinds of electric bicycles and manufacturers turned Bike Attack into The E-Bike Specialist in the USA. Bike Attack Electric started the electric bike trend early on in Los Angeles and Santa Monica selling the first electric bikes in the country in their stores and online. ![]()
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