Remember those "bottle"-type dynamos that rubbed against the side of your bike tire in order to power the lights? Well, they've gotten a high-tech makeover, in the form of the fork-mounted CadenceX ...

As we become more and more reliant on electricity, power outages hit us harder and harder. The solution is simple: build a bicycle generator. A magnet DC motor is spun 50 times for each revolution of ...

The bicycle is a great invention. It is an extremely efficient method of transportation, even more so than walking. So why not harness that efficiency for other things? [Tony] had that same thought so ...

How to Build a Practical Household Bike Generator We built a pedal-powered generator and controller, which is practical to use as an energy source and exercise machine in a household – and which you ...

A bicycle born out of auto industry technology, the Mando Footloose makes claim of using the world's first chainless series hybrid technology for an e-bike. Like other pedal-assisted electric bikes, ...

Keep your iPhone fresh as you pedal. If you want to power your bike’s lights and charge your iPhone as you pedal, you should have specced a dynamo hub when you got the wheels built. But either you ...

One of my bikes has a bottle dynamo that presses on the tire and powers the front lamp. The Siva Cycle Atom is a modern-day equivalent, only it won’t rub away your tire or slow you down, and it’ll ...

An curved arrow pointing right. This bike will give you 24 hours of power after a one-hour workout. The project was created by 5-Hour Energy founder Manoj Bhargava with developing countries in mind.

To put it as simply as possible, the Volume Generator is a beast. Forget your track bike, the Generator will chew it up and spit it out. It comes with an eight-speed internally geared hub, hydraulic ...

The hassle with biking gadgets is they draw energy. Even if you’re running everything off your phone (Strava, music, GPS, video, the occasional pic, message, or phone call) the serious worry is that ...

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