My interview today is with Anton Wass, CEO and Founder of Stark Future. They recently announced their electric motocross bike, one that is as powerful, if not more so, than a 450 gas bike, with a range to match. The bike is called the Stark Varg, which is Swedish for “Strong Wolf”. Stark is planning on making other types of motorcycles, but they dove head-first into motocross, because it’s the most demanding in terms of engineering and handling. Stark is one of the frontrunners in the...

In this episode, I talk with Sushil Reddy and Luis fourzan. These two are riding together on a monumental e-bike trek around the U.S. to raise awareness of the sustainability of e-bikes and solar energy. Their incredible journey started in North Carolina, went north to New York, cut straight across the northern states to where they are now, nearly three months in, in Oregon. They will then travel down the coast to San Diego, California, then head east to Texas. You can follow their journey on...

In this episode, I talk with Leo Raudys, President and CEO of Call2Recycle. Call2Recycle is a company that’s been recycling batteries since 1994, and they now have a partnership with People For Bikes that will soon launch an e-bike recycling program for bike shops, so bike owners can turn in their  old batteries that will then be recycled into new ones. They can pull most of the materials out of batteries, which cuts down on the need to mine new materials, which also means that batteries made...

My guest today is Nico Nagel of Pave Motors. He and his brother co-founded the company, and they’re a few months away from having this bike ready to ship. It looks a bit like a mini-bike, sans the lawnmower motor in the mid frame. It’s sleek and modern, and has some amazing safety and anti-theft features, as well as truly long range. You can see the bike at pavemotors.com. Please support us by hitting the subscribe button and write us a review. We want to keep bringing you these interviews.

Welcome to our first show in just a little while, sorry for the delay, we've had so many bikes coming to us that we kind of don't know what to do with them, which is a big advantage for us. Compared to our sister magazines, mountain bike action and road bike action, they have almost no bikes to test. This is a lot to do with the current situation that we have, which is supply chain issues. So there are a lot of bikes that are like 90% built but can't even ship because they're missing one or...

My guest today is Anthony Cross, the founder and CEO of Zaiser motors. They’re working on their first electric motorcycle, the Electrocycle, and I think it is stunning. The online community is torn about the design, but everyone is excited about the claimed 300 mile range. The bike is very different from electric motorcycles like any of the Zeros or the Livewire, in that it uses hub motors instead of an on-chassis motor. Notice that I said motors, plural. There will be a hub motor in both the...

My guest today is Michael Johnson, co-founder and COO of Zoomo, a company with a revolutionary business model that may help you, the consumer, get into an e-bike easier. Instead of trying to sell you a bike, you can lease it by the week, for as long as you want. They have plans for commuters, part-time couriers and even full-time couriers that start at $20 per week. They take care of all of the maintenance, security in case of theft, etc. Because of their technology, they have what must be...

I recently had a chance to test ride the new electric bicycles from Serial 1 Cycle Company, the e-bike company spun off from Harley-Davidson. The bikes are great, you can check out my first impression on our YouTube channel. I also had the chance to have a conversation, which you will hear here, with the President of Serial 1, Jason Huntsman. Jason has a strong background in the EV space, and we talk about why spinning off Serial 1 from Harley-Davidson was a brilliant idea, giving them...

My guest today is Forbes Black. He’s a very interesting guy with an eye toward the future. He has a background in a lot of interesting things that he ultimately eschewed to get into bicycle racing and ultimately e-bikes. That took him to engineering school for electric bikes and electric vehicle projects. He’s built his own unique e-bike, which I’m currently writing up for the June issue of the magazine in our feature “Readers and their rides”.  We talk about some of e-bike and EV history...

My guest in this episode is Robert Leftwich. He’s a great rider that I’ve worked with over the years, he’s an incredible BMX freestyle rider, and was a test rider for me for BMX Plus! Magazine. He’s also been an avid mountain bike rider for a long time. He now lives in Arizona and has gotten really into electric mountain bikes. He started a Facebook group called Therapy Ride Club to help find people near him to ride with, and that took off unexpectedly. It has several subgroups around the...

My guest today is Ryan McFarland. His may not be a household name, but it should be. I can honestly say he may be the greatest thing to happen to the bicycle world since, well, the bicycle. He’s the founder of Strider Sports International, actually, his official title is Founder and Chief Enthusiast at Strider Sports International, Inc. The enthusiast part is important, because he is passionate about getting more people on bikes. In this interview, we talk about how he started Strider to...

My guest in this episode is a true badass on two wheels. She’s in the BMX Hall of Fame, the Mountain Biking Hall Of Fame, and the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame. She’s a 9-time U.S. NORBA National Champion. She has a lot more amazing awards, attesting to her drive, determination and hard work. To try to outline all that she’s accomplished would take a truly long time. I’m talking about the one and only Leigh Donovan. She’s now retired from competition, and is now an ambassador for mountain...

My guest today is Steve Christini. As an avid mountain biker, he sometimes wasn’t able to climb hills he wanted to climb because his rear wheel would slip. As an engineer and evil genius, he came up with a solution no one else could have, an all-wheel drive system for mountain bikes, eventually motorcycles and then e-bikes. I just got one of his e-fat bikes, and the ride is remarkable on any surface. Listen to him tell the story of where the idea came from and how this launched a career...

My guest today is Toby Ricco of Bimotal. Bimotal is a startup company with a bolt-on e-bike conversion that I had a chance to try out recently, and I was impressed. It’s unlike any other conversion kit I’ve ridden, which is part of why it’s so remarkable. The main guy behind it is a former Tesla engineer, who walked away from his dream job to start the company. His team is made up of engineers from the likes of Tesla and SpaceX, many of whom are avid cyclists. The reason he started the...

My guest today is someone not from the e-bike industry, but a huge fan of e-bikes. Maria Emmerich is a wellness expert in nutrition and exercise physiology. She is the author of several cookbooks and three nutritional guidebooks, including the bestseller “Keto: The Complete Guide to Success on The Ketogenic Diet” https://amzn.to/3n7FrBa Maria and her husband Craig adopted two boys (Micah and Kai) from Ethiopia. They live part of the year in Wisconsin and part in Maui, and they all now have...

Hello everyone and welcome to another Electric Bike Action podcast interview. Today’s episode is a talk with Chris Rothe. Chris is a former expert BMX freestyle rider from the Bay area, who started getting into mountain bikes years ago and pushing limits, then started playing with electric motors for go-karts and eventually adapting one of those motors to a mountain bike. He fell in love with e-bikes, especially high-powered ones, and he now runs EcoBike Adventures and an 1800 acre ranch near...

Hello everyone. This episode comes on the tail of Tesla’s incredible new battery technology that will change the way lithium ion batteries are made. The new cells, called 4680, because they’re 46mm wide and 80mm tall, feature a great number of design and material changes that will cut out cobalt, an expensive material in terms of cost of mining, the danger involved, and the carbon footprint of shipping it around the world to produce batteries. The materials can be sourced locally, instead of...

My guest today is Alex Boyce, a friend I met in Europe at a bike launch. He’s an interesting and very knowledgeable guy, he’s EBA’s official European correspondent. He’s a British guy who lives in Italy and writes about e-bikes for Italian and German bike magazines. He gets access to bikes we don’t here in the U.S., which gives us great coverage of bikes worldwide. He also has a good perspective on the market in Europe, which we talk about extensively. We did have an issue in the later part...

Yamaha Bicycles has just announced 3 remarkable new e-bikes, including a 28mph drop bar road bike and two full-suspension mountain bikes with a truly unique frame design. TYou can check them out on our website, electricbikeaction.com but also look at Yamaha’s page at https://www.yamahabicycles.com/future-ebikes/ to see them and have a chance to win your choice of one! My guest today is a friend and someone I've had on the show not too long ago. It's Drew engelmann from Yamaha bicycles....

In this episode, I interview the CEO of Superstrata, a company that is 3D printing custom, unibody carbon fiber composite bike frames, forks and wheels, and selling them as complete bikes. They’re more than fully funded on their crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo.com https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/superstrata-bike/x/10396890#/?i=hmhc We talk about how he got started in this, how legendary bike designer Bill Stephens was brought in to design the frame, how they custom fit every bike to one...

In this episode, I interview Drew Englemann of Yamaha Power Assist Bicycles. Drew is an industry veteran, from working in the tranches to now being one of the main people at Yamaha.Yamaha has a bunch of interesting stuff coming up, and we talk about it. The link Drew mentions is: https://www.yamahabicycles.com/future-ebikes

Damon electric motorcycles exploded on to the scene with their debut this year at CES. The Hypersport is one of the fastest, longest range electric bikes on the market, with a range of over 200 highway miles and a 200mph top speed, and unmatched collision avoidance and safety features. On this episode of the podcast, I’m talking to Jay Giraud, co-founder and CEO of Damon Motorcycles. We thought things were getting incrementally better in the electric motorcycle world, then we learned about...

In this episode, I interview Drew Englemann of Yamaha Power Assist Bicycles. Drew is an industry veteran, from working in the tranches to now being one of the main people at Yamaha.Yamaha has a bunch of interesting stuff coming up, and we talk about it. The link Drew mentions is: https://www.yamahabicycles.com/future-ebikes