Easy rides on e-bikes

The TWD Mars and Smart 1s models have serious price tags, but for the money, one gets a clean design that blends in with other "normal" bikes. PHOTOS: JOHN LUI, TWD BICYCLE
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You know that joke, the one about the old person who complains about how, when he was a kid, he not only had to walk miles to school, the route went uphill in both directions?

I dream of a bicycle that will make me feel like I am always going downhill. That dream is today no longer a dream, because of electric motors that size of a tin of ham, and batteries that go on and on till you run out of road.

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