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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Ian Evenden

EXPLAINED: Best folding electric bikes for a quick and convenient ride | Rare Historical Photos

The benefits of riding an e-bike are plentiful, but they don’t always extend to making the bike itself easy to transport or store.

Batteries in bikes add weight and bulk, and with things like larger wheels to more efficiently skim over hard surfaces, or wide bobbly tyres for the rougher stuff, e-bikes can become heavy and unwieldy, as anyone who’s tried to carry one up multiple flights of stairs to a flat will tell you.

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