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The Best Ride of My Life – Short Story (Part 1)

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My name is Robert Williams and I am 35 years old. I am a father, business owner and for about 8 to 10 hours a week, I was completely different, I was a cyclist. I remember when I got my first bicycle. It was back in the year 2000 when I was 11 years old. I still remember the day, it was my birthday and before that, I was scared of bicycles.

I love birthdays because we used to get a lot of birthday presents. This year I blew out 11 candles and my mom gave me my first bicycle and now I had to learn how to ride it. I used to watch older kids while they ride their bicycle and I was curious how they do it.

It looks easy but then I remember my mom used to say when she was a little girl, she learned to ride a bicycle but she fell a lot of time and my elder brother told me the same thing and this was stopping me from riding the bicycle.

Robert cycling

For an entire week, I didn’t touch the bicycle but my father forced me to learn it. Once I completely learned how to ride a bicycle, it was a great feeling. You might know how I feel like when a kid has two wheels. It sets you free and you can go anywhere and anytime you want and explore how large the world is.

Life’s Turning Point.

Cycling has become my hobby and I especially enjoyed riding a bicycle with my friends and go on a long cycling weekend trip. I continued it for years before an unexpected turning point. 10 years ago, I was diagnosed with a lung condition that almost ruined my life.

My lung condition was so bad that the doctors told me I don’t have much time to live. I was living on an oxygen tank to survive from the disease. A man who was riding a bicycle since the age of 11 has to give up on everything and even struggled to breathe.

Giving up a hobby which I continued for 19 years was a hard thing to do. You can imagine riding a bicycle with a ball in your mouth and how it can affect your breathing, that would be me if I try to ride a bicycle.

Continuing with my illness and having to let go of riding a bicycle, my life was rolling down. My friends still used to continue riding a bicycle and sometimes shares the story with me to make me feel happy.

So, to be able to ride the bicycle once again, enjoy with my friends again, set free again on two wheels and enjoy the large world again was like a dream to me. I always wish to have a second chance in my life.

10 Years later when my friend suggested that I can ride the bicycle again, it meant the world to me. I wasn’t sure what he was talking about, he only said he has a surprise for me and I have wait till the next day and I can assure you that after the surprise it completely changed my life.

Having my first e-bike

The next day I was eagerly waiting for my friend to come up with what he promised. It felt like the time has passed and I had a hard time passing some of my free time and waiting for my friend.

So, I started watching television and grabbed something from my American fridge freezer to eat. Just after a few minutes, my buddy arrived with an e-bike with him. It felt like I have got a new life and I can ride once again.

Cycling was just h hobby for many others, but for me, the battery-powered e-bike completely transformed my life. It enabled me to cycle once again when I otherwise couldn’t. It helped me to improve my mental health and also found me a new career but that’s the story for the next part.

‘It gave me a second chance’

The Story Doesn’t end here – Continue reading Part 2 of My Story on Afact.org.au

Six folding electric bikes that fit practically anywhere

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A few years ago, it was just an image to be able to carry your vehicle whenever you want. Now, it is a reality and you can carry your electric vehicle whenever you want. These kinds of bicycles are increasing day by day and people are preparing them for two-wheeled commuting in places where there are heavy traffic and low parking space. Some of the big companies are innovating these Technologies and there are other small startups as well as University research groups who are investing their time and money in improving this technology. These Following E-Bikes might be not be a Good Fit to buy since they’re mostly Prototype, If you’re looking to Buy E-Bike for yourself Please take a Look at Best Electric Bikes under £1000 list created by 9Bikes, Most Trusted Source for Getting your Electric News

Ford’s mode which flex fits in your trunk

Ford-MoDe-Flex-Bicycle-Prototype

We can surely be dependent on the major developer of auto parts for developing a folding electric bike virtual fit even in the trunk of a regular car easily. This electric bike is so flexible that at folds nearly two half of s size and makes it possible to store the bike inside the trunk of a car and like a lot of modern high tech bikes, this bicycle will fold using a signal from an application developed by ford and this application will also enable the driver to plan a route as well as avoid traffic and calculate the cost of parking and keeping and touch with weather news.

Tern bicycles electron

Tern bicycles electron

This bike is one of the most compact bikes you can buy on this planet. The frame of this bike is lightweight and the 400 Watts per hour battery will help you use the bike for AS as long as 62 miles on a single charge. because this bike is so compact, this bike can be stored under your desk as well as in the trunk of your car. That is a great way to prevent the bike from being stolen. This company will start a crowdfunding campaign for some time in order to raise money for the production cost as well as innovate more. You can be the first one to get dibs on this bike if you purchased it while the crowdfunding is active.

The Gi FlyBike

The Gi FlyBike

One of the best things about the bike is how quickly at folds which is just one second. The co-founder of this company says that they need to produce a realistically next-generation bike and those were the primary objectives of this company and this design. All the parts which are unnecessary are omitted in this bike and this can be easily observed with the wheel only having one arm which reduces the weight of this bike.

The URB-E

The URB-E

This bike can recharge anywhere. This bike has a genius design so that the commuters who want to travel from one point to another using flexible means of transportation can rely on this vehicle. The frame is a little strange looking but the unusual looks do not matter because it makes up for them using performance. This bike and travel up to 15 miles per hour with a range of as high as 20 miles on a full charge. You can plug the charger of this bike on a simple wall outlet and can charge this bike anywhere.

The Impossible Technology bike

The Impossible Technology bike

The name of this company says it all. This company designs product switch we think can solve problems which are insurmountable. This is one of the most incredible designs in bikes we have ever seen and the engineers have worked hard. The folding ability of this bike is that you can hold it in a way that it even fixes in your backpack.

The Volkswagen bike

The Volkswagen bike

This bike not only fits in your car’s trunk but also fits in the spare tire compartment of your car. This bike and travel up to 12.5 miles per hour and the maximum distance it can travel, is 12.5 miles. This bike was launched way back in 2010 and is still a hot thing.

Swapping cars for bikes, not diesel for electric, is the best route to clean air

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One of the best things to do today to tackle air pollution because it is severely damaging the environment. There is an air quality plan which is revised by the government but it is not that effective in the long run because there are a good amount of issues which it fails to tackle. One of the answers to this problem is increasing the number of people on bikes. We do not know whether this will be Really effective if we use it but it is guaranteed that if we miss this opportunity this will have a bigger impact than the rest.

road with bikes and car

If we focus on switching from a diesel vehicle to a petrol vehicle then it is not a big deal but if we focus on switching from diesel as well as petrol to a bike then this will result in people changing only the things which they drive and not be inconvenient for anyone else. This will help in the improvement of air quality by reducing the emissions which are placed in the long-term. We know that the quality of air won’t change immediately but this is something which will help in the reduction of those bad particles in the air in the long-term.

You can say that encouraging people to ride more bikes over time will help reduce air pollution and this is the biggest opportunity which the government can get. Even if the average length of the traveling distance was 7 miles, only two percent of the people were making commute using a bike. if the people switched from car to bikes, just will provide more breathing room as well as convenience to other computers as well as reduce air pollution at the same time.

If you try and calculate the number of people you can transport using cars and compare them to that with the bike, The biggest difference will be that you can transport 2,000 people an hour in a 3.5 meter Lane and you can transport 14000 people in the same lane if they are using the bike. This is the biggest part which will lead to lessening congestion. The only thing which switching from diesel to electric vehicles will help is early that’s which are related to air pollution and all it will do is encourage more physical activity in people.

In England, according to the statistics, only 55% of the women and 67% of the man met the physical activity recommendations and all those results were similar to Scotland, Northern Ireland. A study from the University of Glasgow found out that when you cycle regularly, the chances of Cancer are reduced by 45% and the chances of heart disease are reduced by 46%. You will also be able to reduce the risk of dying by any other cause by 41%.

Sir Liam Donaldson, said that the potential benefits of physical activity to health are huge. if there was any medication which existed and did that, it would be a wonder drug or a miracle cure in the field of science and medicines.

There are a good amount of benefits to the conditions of the local economy as well. It is evident that if a person is traveling by for bike rather than traveling by car, there is a high chance that the person traveling by bike will spend more in a store over a month than those people traveling by car.

Conclusion: We know that it is important to replace all the vehicles by electronic vehicles but it Is not that feasible. One of the best things, which is realistically possible is replacing cars by bikes. We hope that this article enlightened you. Have a great day.

This Electric Bike Runs on Lightning Network Bitcoin Micropayments

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lightning network bitcoin bike

This is one of the two products created by Matthias, a German developer who is focused on developing lightning network-enabled technologies in order to serve the customers. There are only two projects created to date which are not able. These products are related to lightning. This is one of the first platforms in the E-Commerce industries which supports transactions in the form of lightning in the traditional Web Store format. There is another product which allows the user to pay for a boost in the electric motor so that the user does not need to pedal the bike a lot and the user can do less work in exchange for some Bitcoins. This invention was recently announced by Matthias on Twitter and the code for this product has been published on his get hub.

This bike rental system consists of several components. Both of those components operate totally on the cheap Raspberry Pi hardware. All of the code is stable and is really easy to read so that commercial developers can take those codes and improve those codes accordingly. The front of the software consists of a server related component which will authorize the battery of the bike in order to give a boost to the bike for a defined amount of time depending on the payment and II component is attached to the bicycle which consists of an electrical wireless receiver and an LCD screen.

This bike is known as the lightning bike and the system of this bike a simple enough to understand for a normal human being. All there is to the system is that there is a need to make a payment of as low as 250 satoshi’s or which is not even two cents at the current rate. Every 250 Santoshi payment you make will be giving you a minute of a battery boost for the bike. This is all there is to the system according to the users perspective.

This is what Matthias said himself,

“Once the payment has been made, the system will power on for the selected time and you can start driving !!! After the end of the paid time, the system switches off and the power supply is interrupted – of course, you can continue driving, but only with muscle power. The program returns to the home screen and you can book a new time again. If it did not work, the start screen will be displayed and you can try it again.”

So, for the developers and some users who are interested in reading something which they do not understand, this bikes software has been written in a language known as Python and all of the code used in this bike is open source.in the hardware part, Raspberry Pi is used. The Raspberry Pi used in this hardware is version 0. This is one of the smallest devices which Raspberry Pi has to offer. For a server, larger Raspberry Pi model is used.

There is a long debate going on whether Bitcoin should be used to pay for something as low as chocolate but there have been some proposals for solutions. One of the solutions is that the BTC blocks should be increased in size in order to accommodate with low transaction fees.

Another is the lightning network which is what Matthias demonstrates. This demonstration made much more sense and the speed and the efficiency of this network is something which cannot be ignored. The rental bikes system is popular in a lot of areas and is a growing demand. This thing makes a lot more sense. Financial infrastructures cannot implement the low payment like two cents per minute in a lot of cases and currencies like Bitcoins can fill that void.

From Starship Captain to Electric Bike Pitchman: a Conversation With William Shatner

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Pedego Electric Bikes

This guy is popularly known as Captain Kirk, and he has a machine for the younger generations, he says that developing new technologies in order to save the world and help others is the best thing that the young generation can do. According to him, it is not about closing down the governmental policies as well as the government itself but it is about helping the government research new things and enhancing their original research and development into new ideas.

One of the best things is doing that and that is where all the young entrepreneurs should be at. William Shatner as one of the most genius actors of all time because he was able to stay relevant as an actor, author, musician, as well as a person who willingly supports products like travel website as well as solar panels and virtual reality companies to electric bikes.

This guy called the entrepreneur via cell phone in order to discuss the partnership which he has with Pedego Electric bikes. This conversation went a lot further than it was meant to be. So our question was what made him step on to get the idea about

Hopping onto an electric bike

His answer was that the idea of an electrical bike is that he does not have to pedal home. He told us a story about his past. He said that he was traveling through a coastal highway which was hilly and was and Washington State and when he passed to buy courage, they were a man and a woman and the woman was crying.

What the message from his story was that the woman crying suggested that she could not go any further because of a lot of fatigue and therefore couldn’t make it to the next town. This was the picture that he carried it with him whenever he went by biking because there are a number of times when you start a ride enthusiastically and you have to turn around because after a certain distance you cannot make it any further. This would have changed you wouldn’t have to turn around if you had an electric bike. That is the reason and an answer to this question.

The next question was related to the pedego commercials which were really hilarious. The question asked was whether shooting them was as fun as it looked.

The answer by him was that it was absolutely fun and everybody was bringing the correct equipment. The director of the advertisements was really terrific at his job and the material was really good as well as all the bikes were fully functional.

One of the things he lied was the person who was getting the rectal exam because he thought that in the person was hysterically funny. It sounded obvious that he believed in the products which he endorsed. He talked more about the company and said that attached a great company with a good product which functions beautifully and he was so honoured to be associated with that company.

The next question was whether he had any advice for budding entrepreneurs

His answer was that the future of the budding entrepreneurs is full with ripe Technologies and it is a matter of time that Technology will not be the only factor which will help the company to advance but which company has a superior Technology will be factored. He further said that the superiority of the company will be dependent on the people who are managing the company. That well not factor what is made of glass or Titanium but what the management of the company is doing well matter the most. This is what true entrepreneurship looks like.

Yes, there will surely be a need for new technology in each and every era.