We sell and service Human Power Augmented a.k.a. Electric bikes and ride them enthusiastically ourselves. See also our folding bikes at Folding Bikes West.
To order phone 800/940-6548 (not operable from all U.S. locations) or 206/547-4621 or visit one of our stores:
Please note that on February 1, 2008 we moved within Seattle to:
Electric Bikes Northwest
4810 17th Ave NW
Seattle, WA 98107 - Map
ph: 206/547-4621
ph: 800/940-6548
fx: 206/547-4841
Email form
Spring Hours
Monday through Friday: 11–6
Saturday: 11–5
Electric & Folding Bikes California
(store established 2006)
220 Wisconsin Ave
Oceanside, CA 92054 - Map
(30 miles north of San Diego)
ph: 760/757-3440
ph: 800/940-6548
Email form
Hours
Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays: 11-3
Saturdays: 10-4
Reasons given for acquiring an electric bike typically include the spectacular riding enjoyment, providing motivation to bicycle more, fitness, just gliiiiiding up hills, assuring an appropriate and healthy level work out including optionally arriving to one's destination without a single bead of perspiration on one's brow, concern for the environment and future generations, saving money, fascination with advanced technology and the satisfaction of making a unique and forward thinking purchase.
Above all our customers talk about the sense of joy, excitement and fun the actual riding offers them.
Electric bikes are for people who like to pedal. Most of our customers are perfectly capable of pedalling a regular bicycle. Most already own one or more regular bicycles. They typically buy an electric bike because they are intrigued by its unique ability to blend human and motor power and because it offers most of the advantages of the pedal-only bicycle and fewer of its shortcomings.
Most of our electric bike customers are fit, many athletic. Fortunately the electric bike also uniquely provides a safe, managable and enjoyable riding experience for persons who want to get in shape, lose weight, have some injuries and disabilities or have not ridden a bicycle for years.
What about demographics such as gender, age, education and income?
The customer base is exceptionally broad. The electric bike is not a niche market item.
About half of our customers are women. Many of our most accomplished riders are of course women.
While we sell electric bikes to those in their teens and to those in their '70s the largest customer group consists of active 'middle-aged' folks.
We have many highly educated customers (although it would seem that no advanced education would be required to discern the obvious benefits of the electric bike).
It is not our business to ask our customers to fill out data cards checking off items such as their income bracket. We can only guess that some customers may be wealthy while others may be of modest means. Household income is probably not a significant factor considering that our quality, low maintenance, well supported electric bikes start at $1,195 and that they consume electricity equivalent to an incandescent light bulb in one's living room.
Our stores can claim an owner satisfaction rate of very close to 100% over the last few years. As we do not advertise much it takes customer motivation and initiative to find us (while, of course, word of mouth increasingly is becoming a major factor in our favor). Most customers contact us because they suspect that an electric bike may enhance their lives long after the blush of the original purchasing experience has paled. We don't get many impulse buyers. Or identity buyers: Our customers were cool before they owned an electric bike.
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