Bike chains are messy and noisy, and can fail when pushed to their limits on powerful ebikes. Where some manufacturers replace them with belts, French e-drive innovator Cixi ditches both in favor of ...

It may look like another stealthy e-bike, except for its glaring lack of an obvious drivetrain. Look/Cixi After discussing the benefits of belt drive technology in a recent article, I couldn't ...

Now this is cool. Dynamic Bicycles has developed a line of chainless bikes. All axles and gears are fully enclosed, which means no oil left prone to getting on your clothes - and without a chain, your ...

For more than 140 years, the bicycle chain has barely changed. Inspired Cycle Engineering (ICE), a UK-based recumbent trike maker founded in 1999, thinks it's finally time. ICE has launched PERS ...

Bike2 has built a chainless electric bike motor that it hopes will become a major part of bicycle manufacturing moving forward. The chainless e-drive system will allow manufacturers (at whom it's ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) &#8212 Pedalers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains. If you've ever been riding down the street and had your pants cuff ripped asunder, there may be a ...

We're all accustomed to how bikes work nowadays. It's a bit weird to imagine a different way of pedaling or biking as this is what we've always known as the standard. And for a good reason, biking ...

It’s called the Cixi Vigoz, and it even has Isofix mounting points for a child seat in the back. It also has pedals.

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