A New Koben S

We’ve been waiting to announce this one for months, but the bike industry had other plans in mind. Bike-sharing is taking off in…

The Best Batteries Make The Best E-Bikes

We believe the best batteries make the best e-bikes. So what exactly makes for the best battery? Historically, ground-breaking technical advancements in batteries have come at glacially slow rates. Today’s batteries have much in common with the Sony’s first…

The IKEA of Bicycles

that’s a SLADDA bike for the money.

The Stupidity of Smartbikes

The annual pilgrimage of tech writers and technophiles to Las Vegas each January is every hardware company’s dream and/or nightmare. If you show off something cool, you could be the hit of the show, or the must-have-product of the year. You could win big or go bust in Vegas. The…

The Branding of Karmic Bikes

building a brand versus building bikes

Branding is such a weird word. It’s not something people usually think about, but it’s pervasive and we’re all affected by it to some degree.

The Karmic Battery, reborn.

These last 60 days have gone by so fast. The euphoria of closing a big Kickstarter campaign has worn off, and we know there’s still plenty of hard work ahead. We hit a big bump in the road when the “Lifetime Rebuildable Battery” failed to make the leap from the lab bench to the…