“I want to ride my bicYcle. I want to ride it where I like.”

I was pleased as punch to FINALLY buy myself a new bike seat. I’ve practically been cycling on a plank of plywood these past months. It’s a wonder I didn’t develop ass callouses like a monkey.

In anycase, whatever sense of splashing out on my clunking bike and injecting it with vim fast evaporated when I saw Schwinn’s new red hot electric bikes slated to debut this summer.

One battery charge takes less than 4 hours and lasts for 60 miles. Their seamless design doesn’t have any of dorkiness of most electric bikes (take Peter Parker’s ride in the disappointing yet supremely heckle-able Spiderman 3) either. God bless them they’ve even gone to the trouble of making sure a girl can ride in her summery skirt and save herself the perspiration of slugging up hills. All three models come in an optional low step thru frame. Bliss.

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