Cooper Bikes was based in 2009 by Mike Cooper, son of John Cooper, the person behind the Mini Cooper. Initially, the model targeted on traditional British metal highway bikes and concrete bikes, earlier than partnering with Germany’s TechniBike in 2017. This noticed it shift to creating electrical bikes. As a racing firm, Cooper was all … Read more
Offering e-bikes to Portlanders is a well-liked local weather change technique. (Photograph: Jonathan Maus/BikePortland) The second spherical of potential grantees for the Portland Clear Power Fund have been chosen and there’s excellent news for everybody who cares about lowering our use of vehicles and getting extra individuals on bikes. All 4 of the really useful … Read more
Eire’s efforts at chopping greenhouse fuel emissions are nowhere close to goal with the newest information anticipated to point out an annual improve in emissions of 6%. This determine is the provisional calculation for 2021 when the goal was a 4.8% discount. Severe doubt now hangs over the Authorities’s capability to chop emissions by 51% … Read more
Patrick Rhone’s latest essay in MinnPost appeared to decry the selfishness of advocates for improved bike infrastructure on Summit Avenue. Whereas accusing bike advocates of advocating for bike lanes that solely an elite, privileged few can get pleasure from, Rhone paints automotive infrastructure as our foremost precedence, as he describes totally different marginalized folks that may … Read more