Dec 22, 2017 We all know that the Swedes know how to live well and they’re saying that ebikes will be the 2017 Christmas gift of the year. There’s a thought. Merry Christmas from the team at Hinton Bikes! [Edit: Hinton Bikes was renamed Flit in October 2018. You can find out more at www.dev.flit.bike] If you have […]
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Nov 30, 2017 We were very excited this month to have a chat with Exponential Investor’s Andrew Lockley about the European ebike boom and how we will be contributing to it. Although we fully support the sometimes overhyped move to electric cars, and even electric planes, we believe that electric bikes are an often overlooked way of
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Oct 31, 2017 We have two big pieces of news this month: we finished our first prototype folding ebike frame and were invited to show it at the Hello Tomorrow summit in Paris. OFF THE DRAWING BOARD As you know, we’ve been working hard to design and build the lightest possible folding electric bike that’s still easy to
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Jun 30, 2017 North America has been a much slower adopter of ebikes than Europe or China. Compared to the 1.5 million ebikes sold in Europe in 2015 and the whopping 32 million sold in China, in 2016 the USA only sold about 250,000. That’s about as many as the Netherlands. Canada and Mexico, albeit with smaller populations, didn’t
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May 26, 2017 Although the ebike market in Europe is booming, China is where most ebikes are sold: 32 million in 2016 alone, that’s about 80% of the entire global ebike market. But this isn’t the whole story. As everyone and his dog knows by now, China has been through one of the greatest economic booms
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Apr 28, 2017 Ebikes are just a niche product, right? Not so. Analysts reckon that more than 200 million were being ridden worldwide in 2016 and that 35 million of them were sold in 2016 alone for a total of $15.7 billion. That is estimated to jump to more than $24 billion by 2025. The eagle-eyed amongst you will
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Mar 31, 2017 “EBIKES ARE JUST FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE TOO LAZY TO PEDAL, RIGHT?” We’ve been asked this question a few times recently. The truth is that ebikes do take some of the effort out of your journey. If you’re a keen club cyclist looking to get in as many hours of training as possible then
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Feb 22, 2017 GETTING AROUND OUR CITIES IS FRUSTRATING As cities across Europe become ever more crowded, congested and polluted, more and more of us are looking for alternative ways to get around. Having worked and lived in big global cities like London and Beijing, the team at Hinton Bikes [Edit: now Flit] couldn’t agree more. We cycle every
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Jan 27, 2017 Dave, Alex, David, and Hongwei decided to start Hinton Bikes [Edit: now Flit] for a simple reason: we think that ebikes are a great idea but we don’t see anyone building the kind of ebike that we want to buy. We love bikes as great ways to get around our cities, and to see them
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