The smartest, safest, and most beautifully crafted electric-assisted bikes.
23/08/2021
A touchscreen...on an .
When introduced the touchscreen phone, he changed the world of smartphones.
But touchscreens are now everywhere, from elevators to vehicles.
On Calamus ebikes, the touchscreen allow you to:
1. Set rider .
Different settings for different riders, because the is customized.
2. Track your bike's
Why diagnose the problem after it has occurred when you can do it before, and prevent the problem from ever happening?
3. Navigate with maps
No need to pull out your phone. Get the maps right on your bike screen.
And the best part? The touchscreen is 100% .
21/08/2021
A bike that listens to you.
The Calamus lets riders switch back and forth from eco mode to turbo mode - and that's just the start.
3 ways in which the Calamus app allows you to your experience:
1. Adjust lights and vibrations: Want stronger lights? Want softer haptic vibrations? All adjustments are a tap away.
2. Set destination: When you do this, you directly see the route on your bike touchscreen.
3. Track your : No matter where it is in the world.
And the part?
The app allows us to constantly give you .
19/08/2021
Seamless. . Eye-grabbing.
That’s what we wanted our bikes to look like.
And we’re happy with our final result.
Calamus boast of a unibody structure that flows from top to bottom.
All the routed cables are internal - this not only reduces clutter, but also improves the bike’s .
..while also making the bike .
But a picture speaks louder than words, right?
Have a look.
Let us know what you think in the . :)
16/08/2021
Our next episode is special.
It has 2 life-long friends talking about a subject they deeply care about: .
No mode of transport is perfect.
The Hindenburg airship crossed the Atlantic ocean safely 30+ times - and then it had a crash.
Airplanes, trains, cars...they can all be improved.
The are no different. EVs are, relatively speaking, a new form of transport. There's a lot of - and a fair amount of uncertainty.
How to navigate this?
This episode asks:
- Do EVs have any down sides?
- Are there past mistakes that the sector must not repeat?
And much more.
Hear our founder Nilesh talk to Jasvir Dillon, an in deep tech and mobility: https://lnkd.in/eb7i3GPH
13/08/2021
What do actors and vehicles have in common?
They both need "range."
There's a out there: ebikes aren't for longer journeys.
That they don't have range.
Let's break it.
Fact 1: Most are short.
Percentage of journeys less than 15 KM in the : Over 83%.
Fact 2: Ebikes have come a long way
Calamus ebikes offer a range of over 80 KM on a single charge.
This will cover everything from work , grocery runs, and mini trips to nearby towns.
Talk about an package.
With our , you can go on journeys where the only breaks you will take - will be to recharge yourself.
And never your bike.
10/08/2021
Safety - is it a FEATURE?
Here's our answer: absolutely not.
Safety is a . This is the mindset that has driven us to build the world's safest e-bikes.
To achieve our , we discovered - and inserted - industry first features in our e-bikes.
Haptic vibrations. Blind spot assist. Those are the technical terms.
Here's the simpler explanation: 360° awareness for you, the rider.
Here's what imperils the rider on the road (most of the time): what they can't see.
That is, what is right behind them.
What our do: alert you to incoming from behind.
It's a little bit like having eyes on your back.
On a Calamus Ultra , you stay safe out there.
09/08/2021
Cities - they just exist, right?
Wrong!
Like anything else, are designed.
And anything designed has a designer - or thousands of designers.
In our latest podcast, we talk to one such designer - Sara Stace.
Sara has 24 years of experience shaping cities.
She’s an on urban design, using land to maximise the options for people, and much more.
Cities are not static monuments - they are processes.
Tune in to our to learn what shapes these processes - and how you can lend a hand!
Link:
Listen to this episode from Inspiration in Motion on Spotify. What does the future of pedestrian transport look like? How will active transport and micro mobility shape the current urban streetscape? Sara Stace is a city shaper, strategic thinker and innovator with extensive knowledge about cities,....
04/08/2021
€1, generate €3.6.
This is not a financial scam - this is the magic of bike lanes.
found that for every €1 invested in bicycle lanes, they created €3.6. How?
With bicycle lanes, people:
- Became healthier. This saved the country many health costs down the line.
- Moved more efficiently. Bicycle lanes made travel more , giving people options and saving them time.
Countries can get stuck up on the upfront costs of biking - but the long-term view clearly favors more bike lanes!
28/07/2021
There's one way have an edge.
In developed countries, past mistakes are "frozen." Here's an example:
50 years ago, western countries demolished buildings to create more space for cars.
This increased congestion!
Lesson: no matter how much space you give to cars, they'll take it all up.
Developing countries are more and learn from their developed peers' .
Instead of widening roads for cars, cities should widen them for .
That's a more , human-scaled, and healthier way to move.
And guess what?
Their compact form ensures they don't cause congestion!
26/07/2021
Today is a big day.
The first episode of our podcast is now live!
We couldn’t have asked for a better guest to start with.
His name is Chris Bruntlett, and his resume is off the charts.
He is:
The well known writer of Curbing Traffic, a book that reimagines transport and urban design
The marketing manager for Dutch Cycling Embassy, one of the biggest cycling advocacy groups in the world
One of the most influential intellectuals in the world on subjects like sustainable transport, cycling, inclusive cities, amongst others.
In the episode we talk about all this and more.
You’ll find the episode informative, entertaining, and thought provoking.
Exciting guests are coming up next. Make sure you follow the podcast!
Listen to Inspiration in Motion on Spotify. Humans are the only species that started on one continent and spread across all seven. Wherever we are in the world right now, we need to move. It’s a prerequisite to our existence and it defines our role in this world. To move is human but to move susta...
23/07/2021
The world of is changing faster than people think.
New cars with combustion engines will be banned in by 2040.
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“We should start something together man!” said one engineer to the the other (best friends and room mates)
Believe it or not, that is exactly how it started. It may sound too cliche in the start-up era but we dreamed to be build an amazing Electric vehicle company.
So we began learning, researching, talking. We found that the number of people in India still without personal transport is massive, and this is majorly in tier 3 cities and lower. People cannot afford the luxury of having a motor vehicle in rural/tier 3 cities. We kept researching for some time until we realised that what if we made bamboo electric cycles. Why bamboo electric cycles you may ask?
People thought we were crazy(we still are) that we will make bamboo cycles that too electric.
You see what people don’t realise is, iron bamboo happens to be as light as aluminium, as strong as steel and more flexible than carbon fiber and best part is it can be easily grown in India, oh also it grows completely in a day. I know it sounds revolutionary, but bamboo cycles have existed for more than a century. It’s as beautiful as it is revolutionary.
So we built a frame.
Soon realised that it is not feasible to produce at a small scale especially to get to the prices we were looking for.
We soon shifted towards making an electric cycle that everyone can afford without any compromise to quality, safety and reliability using the best of components and materials.
Soon came along another crazy engineer and joined the party, together we decided we would build a cycle that is not only the best but also affordable.
