When will some enlightened company like Panasonic start importing electric bikes for sale in the US? The market may be small now, but with gasoline at $4.00 a gallon (and sure to rise further) people are already looking for another way to commute.
I have ridden and raced road and mountain bikes since 1984, but wearing "corporate, professional attire" and trying to commute to work is just not possible. Hard to pack a suit, keep it wrinkle free and clean on a bike. For those of you that say, "oh just ride a bike" and stuff like "just pedal" and other lame comments - I have and use my bikes for recreation and I am all the motor I need when I am playing on my bikes. But an electric bike becomes a form of transportation, NOT recreation!
Write to Panasonic - write to your local bike shop - and ask someone to start importing these great commuting tools! They have had high quality electrics in Japan for YEARS and all we have are the junk kits and companies like Giant and Zap (both made good products) who come and go because they don't sell here. Maybe now with wallet draining gas prices, they will!
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When will some enlightened company like Panasonic start importing electric bikes for sale in the US? The market may be small now, but with gasoline at $4.00 a gallon (and sure to rise further) people are already looking for another way to commute.
I have ridden and raced road and mountain bikes since 1984, but wearing "corporate, professional attire" and trying to commute to work is just not possible. Hard to pack a suit, keep it wrinkle free and clean on a bike. For those of you that say, "oh just ride a bike" and stuff like "just pedal" and other lame comments - I have and use my bikes for recreation and I am all the motor I need when I am playing on my bikes. But an electric bike becomes a form of transportation, NOT recreation!
Write to Panasonic - write to your local bike shop - and ask someone to start importing these great commuting tools! They have had high quality electrics in Japan for YEARS and all we have are the junk kits and companies like Giant and Zap (both made good products) who come and go because they don't sell here. Maybe now with wallet draining gas prices, they will!