The Most Misunderstood Vehicle You Already Share the Road With
Ray Wookey
- Organisation:
- Energise E-bikes
- Region:
- South East
- Notice Period:
- Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Lifestyle/Professional
- Fee:
- Free
- Category:
- Science
- Updated:
- 31st March 2023
What is the fastest growing type of transport worldwide? What is the most efficient motorised transport yet invented?
Th answer: Electric bikes.
While over 90% of people in the UK have never tried one, most people will have benefitted from a pedal-assisted electric bike in some way.
The fastest growing type of urban transport worldwide is also the most misunderstood.
Are they legal? Do they cause fires? Are they too fast? Are they too heavy? Are they cheating? Can you actually get fit riding one?
Founder of one of the UK's leading electric bike retailers, Ray Wookey, takes the audience through the many myths surrounding the technology that scientists and economists believe plays a key role in improving the health of both people and planet.
Approx. 25mins. Q & A welcome. Also available via Zoom.
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Between lockdowns in 2020, Ray, aged 72, cycled over 1000 miles between Lands End and John O'Groats, raising over £7000 for Maggie's, the cancer charity.
He achieved the feat in 14 days, cycling at least 72 miles every day with zero rest days. It is estimated that he turned his pedals 1,000,000 times.
To complete the challenge, he rode an electric bike - possibly the most misunderstood type of transport in the world - but as the founder of Energise E-bikes, he is in a unique position to bust all the myths and falsehoods that have arisen about them, and to explain how electric bikes have been transforming lives all around the world, as well as why global environmental organisations think electric bikes will be a major solution to the climate crisis.
He has since cycled across the country from the Irish Sea to the North Sea via the Lake District and the Pennines, this time joined by his wife who also used an electric bike.
Ray has taken speaker engagements throughout the pandemic, including interview spots on BBC London, BBC Surrey, BBC Kent, BBC Five Live and Sky News.
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