This Week’s E-Bike News Headlines
The Electrify Expo Featured E-Bikes Galore!
Griffin ventured to Los Angeles for the Electrify Expo over the weekend of June 21st-22nd. The show, which has eight stops planned in its 2025 run, features e-bikes, electric scooters, full-size EVs (including cars and trucks), electric skateboards, and even e-watercraft.
Highlights from the show included:
- The Mokwheel Onyx, an all-terrain fat-tire e-bike with a beastly 1000W mid-drive motor and an impressively robust suspension.
- The P-51 Ace, a full-suspension moto-style e-bike with a 200mm long-travel fork, a 750W hub motor, and a high-capacity 20 Ah battery.
- The Cargocycle Straight (CS) and Angled (CA) models, two front-loading cargo e-bikes with Bosch mid-drive motors, belt drives, and Enviolo continuously variable transmissions (CVTs).
- The LeMond All-Road Prolog, a featherlight carbon-fiber e-bike with a high-end MAHLE drive system suitable for paved roads or gravel.
- JackRabbit’s OG2 Pro and XG Pro, two pint-sized and highly portable hybrid e-bike/scooters with upgraded battery capacity and powerful motors.
- Atlas PowerLifts, a manufacturer of heavy-duty motorized vehicle racks capable of handling e-bikes up to 150 lbs.
Griffin also saw folks enjoying Ride1Up’s diverse lineup, a fleet of highly customized JackRabbits, a new S2 e-bike from moto-style brand Super 73, and some useful flat protection products from Tannus.
Our Take: We’re always excited to see what new products are on the horizon; we look forward to testing and reviewing some or all of the items listed above.
The Electrify Expo has a handful of other stops on its tour, which ends in October. The Seattle show takes place in July, while San Francisco hosts the August event. September’s event will take place in Chicago, while the Expo ends in New York. We highly recommend checking it out!
The Trump Administration’s Proposed Budget Bill Proffers Public Lands for Sale
Many of the proposed areas, which include properties governed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), feature wilderness and recreation sites for activities such as mountain biking, camping, hunting, and fishing.
Public land in eleven states is threatened, including areas in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.
Our Take: As proponents of the bike industry, enjoyers of many trails built on BLM property, and residents of areas that would be affected by this legislation, we strongly oppose the bill and any sale that threatens public lands. Once such land is sold, it is gone forever.
We strongly encourage anyone who feels the same to take action and contact your local representatives via the form on the People for Bikes website.
People for Bikes Announces 2025 City Ratings
The highest-scored city is currently Mackinac Island in Michigan, which has a permanent population of only 663 residents. It’s worth noting that the island is closed to e-bikes. The best city with a high population is Davis, California, with an impressive score of 81 and a total population of 66,800 residents.
The lowest-ranked city (of over 2900 locations) was Gulfport, FL, which shared its score of 3/100 with other cities in Idaho, Texas, and New York.
Our Take:
We’d argue that our city is better-suited to biking than its score of 33/100 would suggest, but regardless, it’s fun to check out the rankings. We give kudos to the cities that scored highly (especially those that improved!) and encourage locations with low ratings to put a bigger priority on bike infrastructure, access, and safety!
