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Test-Driving the Overweight, Overpriced “Ultra Motor” A2B Electric Moped
TweetGet up to speed on the Ultra Motor A2B electric moped here. They were offering free test drives to all comers in Golden Gate Park over the weekend, so why not try it out, right? The thing weighs...
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San Francisco’s 42nd Annual Cherry Blossom Festival Parade, 2009
TweetAs expected, there was a great turnout for the 42nd Annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival in Japantown today. Sunny skies and the Grand Parade made today the busiest of the four-day...
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Trek’s New $2200 “Ride+” Electric Bike Costs About $500 Too Much, It Seems
TweetWell, here they are - they’re the new (to America, anyway) Ride+ electric bikes from Trek. First off, check out the SF Streetsblog to see yesterday’s scene of San Francisco Board of Supervisors...
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Worst Consumer Product of 2009 – the $2700 Ultra Motor A2B Electric Bike /...
TweetReports are positive so far from those San Franciscans taking extended test drives of Trek’s new electric bike. Having said that, let’s award Worst Consumer Product of 2009 to another kind of...
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Best Buy Sends a Parade of Electric Bikes Down San Francisco’s Market Street
TweetThis is how outbound Market Street appeared in San Francisco this morning as Best Buy sent a parade of expensive $2500 A2B electric scooters (the Worst Consumer Products of 2009) and also...
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Jay Leno-Approved A2B Electric Mopeds Appear on the Streets of San Francisco
TweetIt took a while, but this photo is clear evidence of an A2B electric moped from San Francisco-based Ultra Motor USA apparently being used by a regular San Franciscan. Heretofore, I’ve only seen...
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Ultra Motor’s A2B Electric Bike, the Worst Consumer Product of 2009, Spotted...
TweetWell well, has it really been a half-year since an example of the ridiculous, overweight and overpriced A2B electric bike / moped thing has been spotted on the Streets of San Francisco? Yes....
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The Mean Streets of San Francisco are No Place for an Ultra Motor A2B...
TweetMaybe it was a chuckhole or maybe it was going around the open car door and onto the train tracks that caused this fellow to take a tumble on his crappy Ultra Motor A2B electric moped on Market...
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That Horrible Ultra Motor Ltd Company is Still Around, Still Selling Their...
TweetNow don’t get me wrong, I think test-driving an A2B electric scooter in Golden Gate Park can be fun, but the problem is that these rigs don’t really make sense for the vast majority of people,...
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The Perils of Electric Moped / Scooter / Bike Ownership – A2B “Bicycles” are...
TweetI think I saw an ad for these A2B bikes just today in the SF Weekly. They were never very popular but I did my best to discourage purchases, to the dismay of the Ultra Motors people. These days,...
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