E-bikes: Fashion trends in personal electric transport.

In what is an experiment into listicle/gallery/magazine hybrid-monster territory, I will be posting pictures of the e-bikes I see around my Chinese city, with accompanying words about them, in an ongoing series. Interesting as I find these bikes, I’m equally interested into how to best join the photos and words and categories into something easy to approach as a reader. If you have feedback on how to better achieve that goal, please feed it on back.

The cargo e-bike:

Used by post and package delivery people, and some who seem to just enjoy driving a wheeled metal surfboard. This bike is low-slung, board-straight, and exceedingly practical. I love it. A basket up front provides built-in storage, but bungie-cord a bin on the back benchseat and you have the cargo capacity of some hatchback cars. Foot pegs provide a driving posture more akin to a cruiser motorcycle then the common electric vespas, and this also frees up the floorboard as more cargo space. Beneath that floor are your batteries, and I’d say from the available space it would fit at least four of those, providing a range of 40–50 kilometers (less with a heavy load) at a speed topping out about 50 km/ph.

So there’s the gist, a photo of an e-bike and a description. There will be multiple photos for some types of bikes, with multiple subsequent descriptions. If you know how to present multiple entries for several bikes in a nice way on Medium I’d love your input, or if you know a service to make nice galleries or magazine style layouts that’d be great to try as well.

Cheers.