It doesn't seem like it was all that long ago that if you decided to strap an electric motor and battery to a bicycle, you were looked at like a crazy person. A few decades ago, a guy named Erik Buell started a motorcycle company with some pretty unique ideas and he was looked at like a crazy person too.

Bikes are awesome, but after a while the initial thrill of excitement can wear off. We wanted that excitement back again. We wanted a challenge. Do you remember the first time you rode a bike? With all the excitement that brought with it. The opening up of new opportunities to use this new skill and ride to places you'd never been before. To learn new abilities and try new things.

Scientists say a microlattice design can absorb 27% more energy than the foam helmets on the market now.

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There are few professional sports as closely bound to technology as cycling. A bike isn't just equipment, as skiis or a tennis racket might be—it's a partner in a symbiotic relationship between the machine and athlete. And it's remarkable to see how drastically certain parts of that machine have changed in the last century, while others have stayed largely the same.

Swedish journalist Johan Nylander was invited as the only Western journalist to cover an international bike race from China into North Korea in September. Here he details his travails working with North Korean authorities.

Lawmakers, manufacturers and transportation experts have focused much of their attention on electric cars, with still-disappointing results, but consumers in many parts of the world are embracing electric bikes, which in addition to the usual pedals have small battery-powered motors to speed things along.

Designed in America with new features, more power, and even MORE portability than ever

The baycycle project, currently seeking funding on indiegogo, is an easy-to-use system that connects any bike to a pontoon-like base, marking a new frontier in aquatic sport and travel: water biking.

Disgraced former cyclist Lance Armstrong has told the BBC he will testify with "100% transparency and honesty" at any future inquiry into doping.

You know what kind of sucks about riding a bike? Other than all that pedaling? Bike helmets. Sure, they keep that overrated "brain" from getting splattered, but they take a lot of the open-air-joy out of things, and they're not comfortable. A pair of Swedish women have developed a remarkable solution: the invisible bike helmet.

Here's a new wrinkle to the ongoing Lance Armstrong fall from grace: an Italian cyclist is now claiming that Armstrong paid him $100,000 to throw a critical race in 1993. Roberto Gaggioli told the Italian newspaper Corriere della Serra that prior to the '93 Philadelphia International Championship, a single-day cycling event held since 1985, Armstrong handed him a cake box that had something a little more impressive than a cake inside.

The dangers faced daily by London cyclists hit the headlines last month when six were killed in 13 days, prompting protests and even calls for lorries to be banned from the streets during rush hour. But away from the furore a number of British technology firms have been racing to perfect safety systems that it is hoped can save lives. Cycling deaths hit a five-year high in 2012, with 118 cyclists killed on British roads, and safety standards in the capital are coming under particular scrutiny.

There are a lot of ways cycling is good for the body and the soul.

Uber will begin testing a new service in Manhattan tomorrow, but the new service isn't designed to get you around: instead, it's launching a courier service called Uber Rush, which will let you hire bike and foot messenger to pick up your items and bring them to another location in the city. The service will only operate in Manhattan to start, and couriers won't be able to travel north of 110th Street — no higher than top of Central Park.

Earlier this year a motorcycle unlike any Harley has made in decades began coming off the line,known as the Street.

As part of Boston's new program "Prescribe-a-Bike," doctors can now write prescriptions for low-income patients to get a yearlong membership to the city's shared bike system Hubway for just $5. Doctors at the Boston Medical Center are writing these prescriptions in an attempt to combat the obesity in their community

A thief who stole a state-of-the-art electric bike was caught out after unwittingly calling its owner to buy a battery charger. Ben Jaconelli’s £2,500 Go Cycle was stolen when he left it locked on Kingsland Road in Hackney, east London.

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The best defense against bike thieves is to own a bike that no one would want to steal and use a lock that's just good enough to make it inconvenient. But if you must have nice things, a good bike...