"The New Electric Bike I Want this Week" Meets "Where are they now?" Zooz BMX is back!
[This week's minipost.] I am excited about this bike! I've been sitting on the Where are they now? draft version of this post for a while. After seeing the original crowdfunding campaign not make it for the Zooz, I feared that the bike would turn into vaporware, but I've been watching and have been elated to see that the electro-BMX-hooligan bike hasn't faded away. You see, I love my current e-bike as a commuter. For how and where I ride it, it is the perfect machine. But once in a while I think back to my first factory-built e-bike. It was this bike in silver: The 24volt Currie E-zip Trails (bought on closeout at Best Buy) I was a dozen years younger and 35 pounds heavier than now. And it was a terrible bike, but I did not know it. I started commuting to work on it and quickly came to think of it as this: But I was wrong. It was designed for someone 100 pounds lighter than me who would ride it timidly. Riding home from work one day, the bike and I got air - about 12...