With spring in full force and more local residents commuting daily, a reporter at METRO Magazine came to Varsity Bike & Transit to see what all the buzz of electric bikes was all about. As the provider of the largest variety of electric bikes in the Twin Cities and more than 7 different options available, it’s no wonder why he came to Varsity Bike & Transit. The writer reviewed the very cool Ohm XU700, which allows the user to set their “assist” level, meaning the amount of push the electric motor will add, and includes a throttle you can use to boost the bike to top speed (20 mph) instantly. It’s a pretty wild feeling when you’re riding it.

Kim Carlson, Star Tribune eco-blogger, gave her top tips on how to go green for Earth Day this year. One of the tips – “get out of your car and ride a bike.” Is there better advice? The best part of the Twin Cities Live segment was that it featured an electric bike from Varsity Bike & Transit, and the very awesome Detour bag made entirely from used juice boxes available at Varsity.
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Forget about Tony Stark being Ironman. Rob DeHoff is Ironman. In a recent FOX morning show segment, M.A. Rosko stated, “it’s almost like Ironman peddling on a bike” while referring to Varsity Bike Owner Rob DeHoff as he accelerated on an electric bike. Although, the FOX morning show segment explained how electric bikes are becoming less of a novelty and more common in everyday usage, you can’t help but laugh at (and feel bad for) the cameraman who Rob “Ironman” DeHoff was riding circles around. It looks like he’s done this before.

At the kick-off of this year’s Living Green Expo, WCCO’s Holly Wagner interviewed Varsity Bike Owner Rob DeHoff to learn about the benefits of electric bikes. No, electric bikes are not scooters. They do, however, eliminate sweat, get you from point A to point B in a decent time frame and ride just like any other bike.

In preparation of President Obama’s visit to New York a couple weeks ago, the police with no friends in the scheduling department on the force pulled the duty of driving up and down Houston Street, cutting locks, and carting the bikes away. Why? It seems that some genius military strategist believes that bikes could be used as improvised ‘pipe bombs.’ Fast forward one week, and look to Times Square on a busy theater night. Some jackass parks a car loaded with non-explosive fertilizer and fireworks on the sidewalk and evades police for nearly three days.

It sounds like one of terror suspects being interrogated in one of our secret camps offered some valuable intelligence, but the translator (who likely has never been to New York) confused ‘Houston St.” with “Time Square” and “bike” with “car.” Poor guy. I know the military is stretched thin for translators, but what happened to all those bikes?

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