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
Global warming is upon us at a frighteningly accelerating pace. The heating up, anticipated until recently to take place over several generations, may now occur during a single one.
We advance no presumptions why anyone should do anything about global warming or any suggestions about what can be done.
But we do marvel over being alive when the end to this apparent and ephemeral human existence can be clearly perceived (should one be so inclined). We are filled with trepidation over the ultimate existential significance hereof. We are completely puzzled over our species—so technologically and organizationally brilliant—being unable to achieve even a slowing down of what has now become inevitable.
What does this have to do with selling bicycles? Nothing more or less than were we selling shirts, bread or screw drivers.
We are merely adding our individual voices in our own venue. At one time, before our society became entertainment and distraction saturated, would not most of us have added our voices? We express bottomless sadness and abject horror over the planet we are leaving our grandchildren. We express rage over our own self absorbed, cowardly non-action in the face of the end of human and animal life. But of course we humans were lost long before this.
In this instant we offer no apologies for expressing our personal views in a commercial context. It won't happen again—obviously.
How do we carry on with our lives in the face of the tipping point having been reached and the horrors of global warming now being irreversible? Perhaps we shall get by in some fashion—not in denial but with the perspective that the situation is 'Hopeless But Not Desperate'?
Copyright © 2007 Folding Bikes West
Written by Eric Sundin during the United Nations Conference on Global Warming in Bali.