Zappy Wheels - The Complete Guide To Electric Bikes: Everything You Should Know Before and After Buying Your Electric Bike

The Complete Guide to Electric Bikes

Everything You Should Know Before and After Buying Your Electric Bike

By: Zappy Wheels

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A bout Zappy Wheels

Zappy Wheels is a purely online retailer of electric bikes for more than 15 of the best electric bike brands in the world.

If are searching for a high quality electric bike for the best price, you have come to the right place. We confidently believe we provide more value to our customers than any other online electric bike retailer. Here is what we offer:

• We sell all of our electric bikes at the manufacturer's minimum. That means that literally no one sells e-bikes cheaper than us.
• Coupon codes all year round.
• Free shipping to anywhere in the Mainland United States.
• We donate $10 for every electric bike that we sell.
• A free gift that includes a bike lock and Zappy Wheels water bottle.
• Super responsive & helpful customer service.

We hope to get people to switch from using gas-emitting cars, buses, and motorcycles and over to environmentally friendly and cheaper forms of electric transportation. We believe electric bikes are changing the concept of travel by providing a clean, efficient and exciting new mode of transportation that is affordable to all.

Our focus is always to put our customers and products first. We stand behind our product 100% and make sure that all of our electric bikes are user-friendly and easy to service. With rising energy costs and growing environmental awareness, electric bikes have come to prove that they are the perfect solution. Our mission is to use modern technology to improve our lives and put smiles on our faces, by empowering you to conserve money and energy simultaneously, while reducing society's carbon footprint.

That is why we have teamed up with the Carbonfund.org Foundation so that for every electric bicycle that is bought at zappywheels.com, $10 is donated to help their cause.

Carbonfund.org's mission is to end the threat that climate change and global warming poses on our earth. They fund renewable energy, energy efficiency, and reforestation projects around the world that reduce carbon dioxide emissions. These projects generate certifiable carbon offsets that will provide us with clean energy and better the environment for centuries to come.

I want to thank you for choosing and reading this book, The Complete Guide to Electric Bikes: Everything You Should Know Before and After Buying Your Electric Bike and sincerely hope you find it useful.

Electric bikes, as you may not be aware of, are not a new concept. Theyve been around for quite a while. In fact, the first one was prototyped as early as the last decade of the 19th century, but it didnt appeal to the masses back then. But once they were reintroduced in the 1990s, they became popular very quickly, especially in China. In the US and the UK, theyve only started to become popular recently.

With the active and busy lifestyles of people all around the world, due to rapid globalization and urbanization, its become difficult to ride traditional bicycles much. But e-bikes are a different matter. They provide the joy of riding as well as the power to take you almost anywhere. Theyre also zippier and more maneuverable, so its no surprise that people have started to buy them a lot more now.

Electric bikes in this day and age are elegant, powerful and very viable. So if youre thinking about getting one for yourself, think no further. This guide will help you iron out all the details and plans, and then you can go on and pick the best e-bike for yourself.

I n this chapter, I will talk about some fundamental things about e-bikes and how they can make your life better.

E lectric bikes go by various names. You may also have heard them being addressed as e-bikes, pedelecs or electric-assist bikes. Because it is short and easy, we will mostly go with e-bike in this book. An e-bike is basically just an ordinary bicycle, which has been equipped with a battery and motor for easier riding and pedaling. With e-bikes, it becomes much easier to cycle uphill and on difficult pathways. All e-bikes are motor operated and most of them do not need to be pedaled while in some others, the electric motor is used to assist you in pedaling to limit the power consumption.

Electric Bike Laws in the U.S.

As of early 2017, the electric bike law states that any e-bike is street legal if it has a top speed of 20 MPH or less using just the throttle, it has a 750W motor or less, and it has a pedal assisted top speed of 28 MPH or less. If an electric bike falls within these criteria, that means it will be treated as a normal bike and it is allowed to be used on any and all bicycle paths. 95% of the electric bikes at Zappy Wheels meet these standards, but there is still a small handful of bikes with 1000W motors or a top throttle only speed of 25 MPH. This should NOT scare you away from buying them! They are still allowed to be ridden off-road, which is typically what a larger motor e-bike would be used for, such as the QuietKat FatKat 1000W Fat Tire Hunting Electric Bike. There is nothing to worry about, as long as youre not doing donuts with your 1000W bike right in front of cops on a busy road.

T he questions that usually arise about e-bikes are "Why are they needed?" and "Why not just go for regular bikes? The answers to these questions are quite simple. E-bikes render the rider more advantages than a standard bike, be it in the aspect of speed, ease, convenience, stamina or fun or simple pleasure. There is also the matter of incapability of some people to ride regular bikes; it may be because of their physical unfitness, knee pain when riding a bike, bumpy and hilly pathways, unfavorable weather and wind conditions or lack of stamina. These obstacles can be overcome by making the choice of an e-bike. The riders only need to pedal as much as they want to and the rest is handled by the bike itself. E-bikes are faster and safe, so they take less time to reach your destination without leaving you gasping for breath, as is the case with standard bikes.