Monkeylectric Blog

Making cycling safer and more fun for everyone is our passion at MonkeyLectric.  With Earth Day coming up, we hope we can encourage more of you to ride your bike more to minimize our impact on this planet. We’re sponsoring a giveaway to help foster more Earth-friendly transportation! To celebrate Earth Day, we made a [...]

K. Alice Fox cycles year round, even in the depths of winter. Considering she’s up in Syracuse, the snowiest city in America, it’s quite a feat. She caught our attention with a Facebook post of her fat bike sporting a set of M232s, the lights playing on the surrounding snow. Intrigued by the image and [...]

Photo courtesy George McCall For the past four years, George McCall has been poppin’ and sustainin’ wheelies to raise funds for and awareness about childhood cancer.  He got in touch with us last month, asking after the Monkey Light Pro to advertise his cause as he wheelies 108 laps (27 miles!) at this year’s Relay [...]

We had posted a video on Facebook featuring a tough little Monkey Light undergoing some duress—getting knocked about with a hammer, soaked in water, smashed on the ground—and taking it all like a champ. While the resilience of the light  may have impressed some, one commenter wanted more. Thus it was that the suggestion came [...]

The Burley Flatbed makes it easy to carry cargo on your bike.  We’ve got one here in the shop, and it took less than 5 minutes to install.  We currently have it connected to our Karmic Koben S e-bike for delivery runs.  Win this trailer and some of our M210s and M232s.   Open to residents [...]

  The Filmed by Bike film festival is on a mission to inspire people about bikes in a creative way. That’s why they’re headed to SXSW– the  South By Southwest Film Festival  in Austin with a Popup event. To support this cool endeavor, we’ve given them some Monkey Lights to put on a fleet of pedicabs. [...]

We got an email from Renata, of Prešov, Slovakia with information about a ride that she hopes to organize every year on January 6th. They ride in the dark, and in the biting cold of winter.  It was -15C when they rode last year. It’s called Cyklométa.  She started the event out of the desire to [...]

This was our version of Black Friday.. No shopping, just shipping. It’s great to be able to do this by bike.     We thought we’d have some fun with the Karmic Koben S and make the trip over to FedEx by bike instead of by van.  We actually had a little trouble getting out [...]

Our Thanksgiving Monkey Light and TiGr Lock Giveaway We had a lot of fun with our last giveaway, and wanted to come back with an even better one.  We’ve teamed up with Tigr titanium bike locks for this Thanksgiving edition of our giveaway! MonkeyLectric Monkey Light and TiGr lock Thanksgiving Giveaway Can’t wait? Buy one [...]