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Shanghai Customs

Switch eSCRAMBLER: the best-looking street legal electric motorcycle yet?

Switch eSCRAMBLER: the best-looking electric bike yet?

4 YEARS AGO / NO COMMENTS / ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLE

Electric motorcycles still seem like a brave new world in some quarters, but the technology is maturing fast and the novelty is wearing off. Shanghai-based Kiwi expat Matthew Waddick has been building street-legal electric customs for years now, and knows this well. “Electric bikes are not new anymore,” he says. “You can’t wow people just…

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Honda electric motorcycle by Shanghai Customs

How to turn the Honda Cub into an electric motorcycle

6 YEARS AGO / NO COMMENTS / ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLE

With a population of 1.4 billion, China should be a goldmine for bike builders. But it’s not: motorcycles are banned in many of the biggest cities. In Shanghai you can still get a license plate for a bike, if you have 450,000 Renminbi (Yuan) to hand. Which is about US$67,500. On the other hand, you…

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Electric street tracker motorcycle by Shanghai Customs

Get Amped: Shanghai Custom’s electric street tracker

7 YEARS AGO / NO COMMENTS / ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLE

Despite a mind-boggling population of 24 million, Shanghai seems like a questionable location for a custom bike shop. Chinese laws make it expensive to register imported vehicles, and the bigger the capacity, the harder it gets. Still, this hasn’t deterred Kiwi Matthew Waddick and his crew at Shanghai Customs. When they launched three years ago,…

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