Shelby Electric Bike (Vintage Electric)
It's not exactly a Cobra, but the Shelby electric bike is styled to pay homage to one.
Silicon Valley bicycle manufacturer Vintage Electric knows good timing -- and good marketing. The company has been making e-bikes for over six years, a lifetime in the Silicon Valley, ever since founder Andrew Davidge brought a few of his first creations, bikes that he’d built in his parents’ garage, to Monterey car week in 2013 and showed them around. Reaction was good, business was better.
Now you can buy six different models, from the $3,995 entry-level “Café” model that’ll hit 28 mph and can go as far as 60 miles, all the way up to the newest entry, the one we’re here to talk about, the Shelby. Yes, as in Carroll Shelby, your hero, the guy with the Cobras and the GT40s and all those. The bikes are licensed through Carroll Shelby American (one of gawd-only-knows how many licensing entities that carry the Shelby name). The $7,249 bike was designed, and the deal was struck, to conspicuously coincide with the release of the new Ford v Ferrari movie, the hype surrounding which will surely generate interest in all things Shelby and, with any luck, boost sales.
