This is one of the most beautiful bikes I’ve seen in awhile. Jo Borras does a wonderful job covering it over on Gas2, so I’ll just repost his (always-entertaining) words…. And I have to agree on the line about what it feels like when an ebike’s electric motor kicks in:
Faraday’s Porteur eBike Gets Real (via Gas 2.0)
Introduced last year at the Oregon Manifest bike competition (which it won), the Faraday Porteur is finally (almost) coming to market. All they need now is $100,000. The bike itself is a pedal-assisted ebike that Porteur likens to having an “electric tailwind” everywhere you ride. Having ridden…
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