Re: electric bikes


"Doug" <jagmad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:fca26a0e-430c-4041-9472-46a658f028f1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 8 Mar, 06:23, Uncle Spam <michaelnewp...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/7378117/The-Japanese-love-affai...

Hmm! Unlike us they have recharging points for electric bikes, and
solar no less!. Give it another 20 years or so and we might possibly
follow suit.

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Two years ago I was amazed by the number of bikes on the streets in Japan. Near the river in Tokyo I came across an underground bike park with a stairway leading out which had a wheel slot next to the stairs in which was running a form of conveyor belt - you simply pushed your wheels into the slot at the bottom and the conveyor did the work of getting you bike to the top. Elsewhere there was a multistory car park; except it wasn't a car park it was a bike park. In Kyoto the local authority (it didn't look like the police) arrived at the station with a flat bed truck and hoovered up all the bikes hanging off railings etc - they filled that flat bed.

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