A folding electric scooter only earns its place in a multimodal commute if you can actually get it through a turnstile and up station stairs without wanting to hand it to a stranger. That single requirement rules out plenty of hardware that looks perfectly transit-friendly on a spec sheet. We spent weeks putting ten of … Read more
Most people buying an electric scooter under 500 dollars fall into one of two camps. Either they want a cheap first scooter for a one or two mile campus run, or they want a daily commuter that will survive a few thousand miles of pavement. The trouble is that the spec sheets for both look … Read more
Most electric scooters are marketed on flat-ground range and top speed, and both numbers evaporate the moment the road tilts. If your daily route has three or four real climbs on it, the best electric scooters for hills in are a different category of machine from the commuter models that dominate the bestseller charts. The … Read more
Walking the last mile to school with a backpack is one of the least glamorous parts of being a teenager. An electric scooter changes that walk into a ride, and the right one turns a two-mile commute into something a kid will actually ask for. After sorting through the current scooter market line by line, … Read more
Most bike racks on the market are built for bicycles that weigh 35 to 45 pounds. A heavy e-bike can weigh two or three times that, and when the trays and clamps flex under the extra load, the bike starts to sway, the clamps bite into paint, and the rack itself can work loose in … Read more
Most sedans have no hitch receiver, which leaves the best trunk bike racks for sedans as the only realistic way to carry bikes without drilling holes or dropping a large sum on a hitch install. I spent six weeks fitting nine different racks to a family of three sedans, a compact, a midsize, and a … Read more
Most apartment dwellers do not have a bike problem because they ride too little. They have a bike problem because the bike occupies the one square metre of floor that was going to hold the dining table. The fix is rarely a bigger room. It is a mounting system that moves the bike off the … Read more
The best floor pump for a road bike is one that reaches your target pressure without fighting you, seals cleanly onto a Presta valve every time, and has a gauge you can actually read while the hose is attached. The Topeak JoeBlow Sport III is the one we keep coming back to: a 160 PSI … Read more
A weekly grocery run is the hardest thing to do on a bicycle. Panniers cap out fast, baskets tip under a case of water, and balancing a bag of eggs on a handlebar is a coin flip. A cargo trailer changes that math entirely, and after six weeks of comparing twelve of them, the best … Read more
Riding with a toddler changes how you see your bike. The best bike child seats for toddlers turn a solo commute into a school run, a park trip or a grocery stop without a second car, and they do it while keeping the smallest passenger properly strapped in. After six weeks of comparing ten of … Read more