News — Electric Bikes

U-Man Power is pleased to announce the addition of Josh Gillette to the shop. Josh has an extensive background in the interwebs and social media as well as being a darned good electronics technician. He has been hanging with us at the shop for awhile and is an up and coming bike mechanic. Josh wants to do bicycle design and mechanics and is working towards that by apprenticing at the shop and will be taking formal schooling at Appalachian Bicycle Institute.We are excited to have Josh here. He is an avid e-bike fan and that is where his expertise lies....

As you know we are East Tennessee's center for e-bikes. Along with our partnership with complete e-bikes by Hummingbike we are now the Tennessee dealer for BionX. We understand and can install and trouble shoot these incredible systems. BionX systems augment your pedaling to give a seamless e-bike experience. If you are needing a custom solution for your recumbent or existing bike....this is it. If you are needing a complete e-bike we recommend a Hummingbike. Come by and talk to us about getting a Hummingbike or electrifying your existing recumbent or other bike/trike.

 We've been told by the factory to clear out all older model e-bikes.   This means crazy savings for everyone who has been putting off purchase of an ebike.  We have about 5 Stowaway folding ebikes with the lead acid batteries. Normally $699 we are marking these down to $499. We also are getting rid of our delta style e-trikes.  These are traditional looking with the basket in back.  Marking these down from $1199 to $699. That's a $500 savings!!!!!! And the Patrol lithium ion 26" 7 speed ebike cruisers are marked down from $1299 to $999.  Wow.  Everything is sub...

 Traffic is way UP in the shop.  But too many tire kickers.  To transform you from a tire kicker into a buyer.....we are taking $60 off any trike or e-bike in the shop until September 30.  

 U-Man Power is now the Knoxville area dealer for Hummingbikes.  We will have 8 of these bikes in the shop after Thursday.  These bikes are legal to ride in Cades Cove.  The National Park Service has told us that it is ok to ride them during the 'no cars' times in the Cove!!!   Four of the bikes are folders so you can rent them and take them in your trunk!!!!!!  The other four are cruiser types. The new bikes can run at 18mph for 1 hour.  But we don't recommend using them this way.  We will be adding a rental...