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E-bikes give regular cycles an extra kick for hills and long stretches
JOEL MASON’S
By Katie Shaw Kitsap Week
A tribute to Bob Seger
Tickets $10 advance • $15 day of show
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TRIBUTE TO ELTON JOHN
Friday, June 27th | 8:00 PM
Tickets $10 advance • $15 day of show
MMA | Cage Warrior Combat Saturday, July 19th | 7:00 PM Tickets start at $35
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oulsbo resident John Scheunemann rides his bike up and down the daunting slope of Forest Rock Lane for his daily commute to and from Central Market. The hill is typical of most Pacific Northwest terrain: steep and unforgiving. “I decided to get an e-bike because of the hill; that was the impetus,” Scheunemann said. “I was biking home, and I’d
an electric bike enthusiast just be dying by the time and vice president of sales I got to the top of the hill. and marketing for the I tried [the e-bike] out e-bike company e-JOE. in Seattle, on the steep streets coming up from the ferry, and it pulled me E-bikes up, no problem.” Electric bicycles have Electric bicycles can become popular worldbe ridden like a regular wide, but remain relabicycle, but with the tively uncommon addition of an in the United electric motor to States. Modern Cover assist the rider. European and The battery and Story Asian city motor provide an designs and comextra kick on hills muter cultures are or long stretches, known to be much more making it a valuable tool bicycle-friendly. In 2012, for recreational riders or 29.3 million e-bikes sold commuters. worldwide. About 90 perScheunemann isn’t the cent of these were sold in only local resident praisChina, but European couning the value of e-bikes. tries were big buyers as Poulsbo’s Phil Herzog is well, especially Germany also spreading word. (about 380,000 in 2012) “The worst day on a bike is better than the best and the Netherlands day in a car,” Herzog said, See E-bikes, Page 5
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