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Find Your Electric Bike, Folding Bike, or Bionx Motor Kit at NYCeWheels!

An electric bike or your own non-powered bicycle with a bicycle motor kit installed lets you enjoy the outdoors, and provide the fun you deserve.

Where hills, headwinds and longer distances were once limiting factors, an electric bicycle removed these boundaries and left nothing but wide open freedom and fun - smiles are guaranteed.

Aside from an electric bike, folding bikes and kick scooters are integrated into other forms of commuting with great ease, expanding your mobility and decreasing the length of your daily commute with nothing but positive results.

We welcome you to transform your life, the lives of those around you, and soon enough the very communities that you live in.


Daily news & updates:

The Xootr Kick Scooter Migration

It's finally summertime in New York City! With the warm weather comes the great Xootr kick scooter migration. We're now hearing birds singing, bees buzzing, and scooters whizzing by on York Avenue. It's a fact: less people want to take the musty underground subways to work when they can enjoy the sun and ride a Xootr kick scooter. We're selling portable scooters faster than an ice cream shop can sell cones on the first day of spring.

The Xootr MG push scooter is still our most popular, and the bright red and bright blue decks look great under the sun this time of year. We still have customers that love the retro-skateboard deck of the Xootr Cruz, as well as the solid aluminum deck on the Xootr Street.

Also, you can outfit your Xootr scooter with more accessories than a jewelry store on 5th Avenue. The accessory kit for Xootr scooters includes a rear fender brake, a carrying strap, and a carrying bag. If you haven't ridden one of these scooters yet, you should swing by our shop and take one for a test ride. Still don't believe me? Here's a quote from Jake, who stopped in to our shop on Saturday:

"I honestly can't think of any other way to travel. I own two Xootr scooters and I'm in the market for a third. I ride one every single day, and in my opinion, it's the only way to get around New York City."


Electric bike section including OHM, eZeebikes, EcoBikes and Sanyo Eneloop electric bike

Electric bikes

are for the most part bicycles with a motor, charger, speed controller and lithium battery. The electric bicycle is not intended to be a motorcycle or moped but rather an assisted bicycle that is easier to pedal and more fun to ride than a non- powered bike. (although if need be, on selected models you can ride without pedaling up to the legal speed limit of 20mph.)

Our electric bicycle selection includes the electric powered Ecobikes, the OHM bikes from Canada, Sanyo Eneloop electric bicycle and the high performance line of eZee bikes.


Folding bike selection including Brompton, Dahon, Xootr Swift and Strida

Folding bikes

are designed for portability and ease of use. The folding bicycle is popular with commuters, for airplanes, boating and RVs. Here in New York City, much like in any place with limited space, fold-up bikes make a ton of sense and are therefore our best selling product.

Our selection of compact folding bicycles includes the Brompton bike, the Strida, and a nice selection of the better quality Dahon folding bikes.


Electric bike motor kits

Electric bike motor kits

are designed to retrofit a standard non-powered bicycle or trike with an electric motor, usually powered by high performance Lithium batteries. It is in general less expensive to purchase a ready to ride electric bicycle but the electric bike motor allows you to use the bike you already know and love.

Our quality selection includes the BionX electric bike motor kit and the proven eZee electric bike conversion.


Adult and kids kick scooters including the Xootr kick scooter and Goped push scooter

Kick scooters

or push scooters the most portable, most compact rides we offer. Xootr Adult kick scooters are made of lightweight aluminum, they weigh in at around 10 lbs and can easily be taken up 5 flights of stairs, down to the subway or on the bus and fit under a desk or in the trunk of the smallest plane or sports car.A kick scooter is perfect for short range commuting.

Our Xootr kick scooter is the choice of tool for the short-range NYC commuter.


NYCeWheels is a New York City based dealer and full service shop.
NYCeWheels is located on the Upper East Side in NYC, 1603 York avenue, New York, NY 10028.

NYCeWheels is open MON-SAT 11am - 7pm and provide free test rides of our electric bikes, folding bikes, and kick scooters (assuming that it isn't raining.)

We ship our electric bikes and folding bikes fully assembled and tuned-up, ready to ride, throughout the country.
Outside of New York, California, Florida, Texas, New Jersey and Oregon are our leading states
We also ship internationally - the UK, Germany and Spain are leading the electric bicycle pack there.


Archives, Daily news & updates:

Brompton US Championship

Those of you who want to ride their beloved Brompton Folding Bike in the US Championship race should sign up today! Registration just opened and only the first 100 applicants qualify! The winner gets a paid trip to Oxfordshire for the Brompton World Championship!
Michelle, Bert, Shoi, Izzy and Mark have all registered, so if we get enough of you Manhattanites to join us, we can get a bus down there together..... more

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Electric bike conversions

Are they the best option or should you get a ready to ride electric bike? Lately, we seem to be selling more BionX electric bike kits than electric bikes that are ready to ride. Electric bike conversions can cost more than an electric bike but offer some features that might appeal to you.

If you own a bicycle that is very unique, an electric bike conversion is the way to go. These electric motor kits can fit bicycles with rear suspension, usually not available in a large variety of "ready to ride" electric bike. Another advantage; if you are a very tall or a shorter rider, you can get the bicycle that perfectly fits you and install a "do it yourself" electric bike conversion Most electric bikes come in "one size fits most"

We just finished an article, outlining features of the electric bike conversion. Its a good starting point if you are trying to decide how to join the electric transportation crowd.

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BionX

The word Bionics means part man, part machine. An electric bike conversion kit works the same way, using motor assistance to aid human pedal power. One of our most popular electric motor kits is made by BionX. Over the last ten years, BionX has become an established name for high quality electric motors and batteries. So what, exactly, makes the BionX electric motor kit for bicycles so great? We're here to break it down for you, piece by robotic piece.

Compared to other electric bike conversion kits, the BionX motor kit is quite unique. With different levels of pedal-assistance and an intuitive torque sensor, BionX provides varying levels of power that depend on the rider's pedal power. There is also a throttle included for slight speed boosts. Regenerative braking and pedaling allow the rider to extend their trip by charging the battery on the go.

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Folding Bike Travel Guide

Whether you're an every-day commuter, or a vacationer on a boat, there's no doubt that a folding bike makes life easier between long trips. As more people spend their time traveling, they need a reliable bike that is both portable and convenient. Folding bike travel is perfect for a mobile lifestyle.

Here in New York City, people are always looking for efficient forms of transportation, and lately, we've seen a move for greener vehicles: electric bikes, kick scooters, and folding bikes. Small apartments don't really accommodate full-size bicycles, so folding bikes are convenient for the city-dweller with a compact lifestyle. The Brompton folding bike is our most popular brand, and is the most compact folding bike available. The award-winning IF Mode Folding Bike is a brand new, maintenance free folding bike. It is our only folding bicycle riding on full-size 26" wheels.

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March Madness and Electric Bikes

Spring has forcefully sprung, as our shop came to life yesterday. We put our eZee Quando folding electric bike out on the sidewalk, a floor model that has been discounted to $1300. Come in and grab it while it lasts! Speaking of electric bikes, we had a visit from Helene, one of our old customers with a Giant electric bike. She told us about her bike's theft and ended up leaving with the Ecobike Elegance electric bike. A pretty nice upgrade, going from Nickel batteries to Lithium.

Brompton folding bikes were also quite popular today. We set Patti up with a bike for her husband. She got a Brompton S2L in black (the same bike that I ride). However, while we talked about Brompton bikes, I dug out a pretty cool looking S3L in black and red (black main frame, red extremeties). She didn't end up buying it, but it has an awesome color scheme.

We also had a visit from Heng Liew, our BionX electric bike rider from Malaysia. Speaking of the BionX electric system, did you know the new rear rack batteries come with an extra DC output cable, programmable for both 6 and 12 volts? I guess they didn't discontinue this option after all.

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Semantics 101: Electric Bike vs. Electronic Bike


If you're as particular about linguistics as we are, you may be wondering why electric bikes are sometimes referred to as electronic bikes. Is an electric bike the same thing as an electronic bike? The terms are similar, and department stores may be using them interchangeably these days, but there are some slight differences that separate an electric bicycle from an electronic bicycle. In our article about electronic bikes, we lay down the law with science and language, so you can tell these two apart.