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Drifting from Motorbikes to Electric Cruiser Bicycles:

6/12/2016

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A few years ago I enrolled at Wakefield College to study motorcycle mechanics, mainly because at the time I was massively obsessed with the TV program ‘American Chopper’ During my term at college I slowly realised that although I love vintage motorcycle styling, I don’t really agree with their propulsion systems (Especially modern ones) instead I was finding myself increasing drawn to Electric Vehicles. During my spare time there I would search through vast pages on Google images across the internet for E-bikes that looked like vintage motorcycles, it was only after six-months of research that I discovered there was in fact a sub-genre of E-bikes called – Electric Cruiser Bicycles

This is basically a sub-genre of E-bikes focused on overtly emulating vintage 1920-50’s lightweight motorcycle styling, yet applies it to – Electric Bicycles. As you can imagine I was thrilled at this discovery, but had no idea where to showcase this information, Some friends recommended I start a website but thought this would be expensive? plus I’d be getting ahead of myself, first you need to build your audience… So instead I opted for a more cost effective approach – a Facebook page!

Wherein I would create individual photo albums dedicated to one-off Custom builds, including the companies currently producing ‘electric cruiser bicycles’ alongside correct links to webpages and social media outlets. Needless to say, it gained some notice; a few companies actually started branding their electric bicycles E-cruizers’ which although wasn’t my decision still made me smile –a lot!
https://www.facebook.com/electriccr... 

Then in December of 2015 I approached a custom bicycle builder E-Zine (digital magazine) about publishing an article on this emerging custom culture, to which they replied ‘only if you write it, and also get the appropriate photo permission’ (Which I successfully did)
http://kustomizedbicyclemagazine.com/... 

Recently however, this Facebook page finally reached a landmark of 1100 ‘organic’ page likes (Basically Not-paid-for) and in the future I hope to publish two books on this custom E-bike culture, one being the first ever A-Z guide to electric cruiser bicycle companies, the other being an in-depth one focused on Custom one-off builds and the individual creators of them.

Also, I wouldn’t mind being a writer for the E-bike industry, But would need to prove my writing credentials first with qualifications, experience and published material. So any advice on article writing (for motor-vehicles) would be very much appreciated, the how-to’s, and techniques.

Regards
Jaimes Lewis Moran
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local publishing in seacroft

6/1/2016

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​Otley word feast, Armley press, Valley press, all are well known local publishing organisations, but did you know that Seacroft has one too?

It started out as an informal group gathering, all with a love for literature, music and art and thus the SCLAS group was established in 2009 (*Seacroft community literature & Art Society)  They usually meet at the Seacroft village hall on Tuesdays from 1.30-3pm. And in case you aren't aware, they've spent many years publishing small pamphlet's and books on the local area of Seacroft and its residents (*me included)

Recently they decided to launch a LTD publishing company called 'Seawark' press, and hopefully in the coming months they will enter a new venture in their history; selling their varying books on Amazon.co.uk alongside their first ever E-book editions!

Either way,  it's getting exciting!
- Jaimes Lewis Moran

Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/SeacroftLitandArt/

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