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Innosphere encourages members to pedal for sustainability
April 20, 2012 - In honor of Sunday’s Earth Day, Rocky Mountain Innosphere members rode their bicycles to work Friday for a good cause. Fort Collins-based Ridekick International, a member of Rocky Mountain Innosphere, donated $1 to the Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Association for each employee who rode a bicycle to the Innosphere on Friday. Ridekick sells electric-powered bicycle trailers that reach up to 19 miles per hour without pedaling.
January 20, 2012 - Initiatives promoting electric bicycles feature regularly on the Springwise virtual pages, as do ideas to help the modern day cyclist transport their belongings easily. Now Colorado-based Ridekick have combined the two with an electric trailer that gives cyclists a boost from behind, with storage space for bags or shopping.
Electric bicycle trailer from Ridekick offers a useful boost
January 13, 2012 – Fort Collins, Colorado-based start-up, Ridekick, has a new take on the electric bicycle: they offer something that’s not a bicycle at all. Instead, they think an electric powered trailer that can be easily attached to most conventional bikes is a better solution. The Ridekick is an option for the cyclist who wants either full time, or perhaps, only occasional electric assist, but neither wants to go out and buy a brand-new electric bicycle, nor permanently retrofit their existing one. So, how does it work?
January 12, 2012 - Here is an idea for the ages. One smart person has come up with an idea as fresh as can be. I have to admit that I envisioned this well before I saw and heard of one, but that is a moot point. I have seen two styles of E-trailers, one by Pat, at San Diego Electric Bike, and this Ridekick. I will test Pat’s in the future, but today’s subject is this mass-produced Ridekick.
Kick the car habit with Ridekick electric bicycle trailer
January 10, 2012 - Your neighbors and friends may turn green with technology envy once they see you riding around town with the Ridekick power trailer, a newly designed electric charging unit that attaches to bicycles from behind. Adding 40 pounds of cool torque to travel further distances with or without pedaling, you are sure to get a lot of looks from pedestrians and drivers alike.
December 28, 2011 - The Ridekick hitches to the back of the bike and shoves it forward via the rear axle, so it should feel somewhat natural to use. The 500-watt motor takes six hours to charge and will carry you for up to 15 miles (longer if you pedal some of the way). The whole shebang weighs in at 40 pounds (18 kilos) empty. But the best part about having a motor in a trailer is that you now have… a trailer. Inside it has 42 liters of space to carry up to 34 kilos (75 pounds) of anything you like (we suggest beer). Not only is a trailer better than a backpack in terms of comfort, this one even pulls itself.
December 27, 2011 - Ugh. Cycling. We’ve got cars now people, which means that you don’t have to pedal your butt off to get from place to place. But if you absolutely insist on punishing yourself like that, consider upgrading your bike with this trailer, which can give you an assistive boost whenever you need it.
Electric bike trailer boosts bike power up to 19mph
December 26, 2011 - “This electric trailer pushes your bike.” That’s the Ridekick tagline for their inventive electric-powered bike trailer designed to make bicycles zoom off at up to 19 miles per hour. The trailer has the potential to extend the practicality of using bicycles as primary transportation, as the Ridekick removes the need to peddle a cycle and provides space to carry goods. Could the days of balancing grocery bags on our handlebars be over?
December 24, 2011 - At the beginning of this year I went on record with this New Years resolution: “I’m going to eliminate as many of the reasons as I can that require my wife to spend time in a car, beginning with the grocery shopping. I may start with some shopping panniers, but ultimately I may have to go for a long-tail bike, or a bike cargo trailer.” By that I meant, I would do more of the things using a bike that she currently does with the car, so that she doesn’t have to. I’ve gotten almost nowhere with this resolution. In 2011, just about every grocery run for our household was still done by car by her. I suck. But I think I’ve found a solution to this challenge, as well as my other ambitions to use the car less. The solution is not panniers or a long-tail bike. It’s the Ridekick electric trailer.
September 26, 2011 - Cyclists like to spread the love. They want everybody to ride a bike — male or female, young or old, athletic or klutzy — so it’s no surprise that they’re constantly churning out new products like the ones below. Tested at the annual International Bicycle Expo this month in Las Vegas, each of them makes cycling more exciting, practical, comfortable and fun for some kind of rider. Whether you’re a commuter, cruiser or high-performance racer, there’s probably something here for you.
September 17, 2011 - Ellen is the 80-something year old former vice mayor and Nazi holocaust survivor who still uses her bicycle to get around. “You know breathing is getting a little more difficult for me,” she explained, reminding me that she’s recovering from lung cancer, “so this electric trailer helps me bike a little easier.”
September 17, 2011 - There are many Interweb sources out there where you can find info on the latest carbon, TT or electronic gizmo found at Interbike. Fahzure won’t bother you with a rehashed product literature feature; at Spoke(n) we’ll focus on the truly new and the the dreamers.
September 16, 2011 - Jim Thomas looked as if he was riding a bicycle in the Sands Expo and Convention Center on Wednesday, but a 500-watt motor inside an electric-powered bike trailer connected to the two-wheeler was actually propelling the electric-bike shop employee from Philadelphia.
Thomas was testing the Ridekick Power Trailer, and he liked what he saw.
September 12, 2011 - RideKick is a new motorized trailer that pushes your bike and carries cargo. It retails for $699 and attaches to any bike. Currently it uses an SLA battery to get about 12-15 miles per charge for now, but they’re developing a Li-Ion battery that will double the range. It’s good for about 19 miles per hour without any pedaling.
Who Needs Gas? Riding with the Ridekick Power Trailer!
September 1, 2011 - Before we go any further: those of you who feel that riding with any sort of electrical assist is “cheating”, if you feel that you’re not getting the benefits that you should from riding, if you think e-assist is only for the old and infirm, if you sneer at those who do ride with a bit of assistance from a battery – in short, if you look at those people the way a large number of upright riders look at *all* recumbent riders, then maybe you should stop reading now. Go outside, lower the pressure in your tires, set the seat recline as upright as you can – we don’t want any “cheating” via lower rolling resistance or aerodynamics, right? The rest of you, read on – you may just decide that this little Ridekick trailer is in your future!
August 23, 2011 – As a more-than-casual bicyclist in Portland, Oregon – one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world – I enjoy covering news of electric bikes and related products. Unfortunately, most e-bikes are fairly expensive – more than than the combined cost of both bicycles I currently ride – so the appeal is somewhat limited. The RideKick, however, seemed to have the potential to economically covert an existing bicycle into a sort of e-bike by using an electric-powered cargo kit to push a rider.
July 21, 2011 – Ridekick International has received its first official shipment of its battery-driven “power trailers” off the production line. To mark the milestone Wednesday, the company awarded the first of the units to the lucky winner of a random drawing earlier this spring – former Fort Collins mayor Ray Martinez.
Loveland-made Ridekick provides an electric-powered boost for bicyclists
June 29, 2011 - When a mom just can’t keep up on her bicycle against her speedy children and husband, the new electric bicycle aid, Ridekick, might be the answer. ”When we think about how we use our cars, 50 percent of the trips we take are within a five-mile radius of home,” said Dee Wanger, part-owner of the company, Ridekick. ”We use the car to go grocery shopping, a single driver for a single bag. It makes better sense to use a bicycle form of transportation, especially in a place like Fort Collins.”
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