Tucked away within the Austin industrial hall is a company that has been doing brisk enterprise throughout the nation, promoting kits that permit bicyclists to transform pedal-powered bikes into electrically powered bikes.
Originally based mostly in northwest suburban Schaumburg, eBikeling moved to an industrial constructing at 5658 W. Fillmore St. in 2018. In addition to promoting bike conversion kits and changing bikes, the company sells alternative components. It additionally repairs e-bikes and electrically powered scooters.
While eBikeling does most of its enterprise on-line, the company will get walk-in clients from Oak Park, Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood and even from as far-off as Indiana and Wisconsin.
The company touted its customer support, aggressive costs and its on-line presence as main causes behind its success. The demand for its conversion kits shot up in the course of the pandemic as many individuals had been caught at house. eBikeling is planning on doing extra video tutorials on conversions, in addition to to develop its product line.
Cyclists can journey electric bikes by both paddling them the way in which they’d another bike or utilizing the electric motor to assist them alongside. This implies that any pedal-powered bike might be transformed into an e-bike, as long as the proprietor installs the proper components.
eBikeling was based by Selahaddin Ganioglu, of northwest suburban Hoffman Estates, in 2008. According to Berkay Doma, the company’s General Manager, Ganioglu thought that bikes and automobiles had been more and more shifting towards electric energy, and the demand would solely improve. The company title, Doma stated, got here from combining the phrases “e-bike” and “cycling.”
Doma stated that eBikeling moved to its present location as a result of they needed to be nearer to Chicago. The warehouse house within the industrial part of Austin south of the Eisenhower Expressway was inexpensive and had sufficient room to swimsuit their wants. It additionally had the benefit of being nearer to a freeway than the Schaumburg location.
e-Bike conversion is the core of the company’s enterprise. Doma stated that, whereas ideally they’d’ve preferred clients to carry their bikes to them, the truth that most of their clients are outdoors Chicago makes that impractical.
“We prefer to convert your bike, because we do it professionally,” he stated. “One person has a chance to fail due to the wrong assembly. But because we sell all over the country in 48 states, people purchase [the conversion kits] and we provide them with instructional videos of the installation process, so people can install them by themselves.”
The movies and instruction manuals can be found on eBikeling’s web site. Murat Soyhan, the company’s model supervisor and head of customer support, emphasised that, if adopted accurately the conversion course of usually takes n greater than an hour. He stated about 1% of the company’s repairs concerned fixing botched conversions.
Doma estimates that between 95% and 98% of the shoppers purchase merchandise on-line, with Soyhan mentioning that they get lots of orders from Ohio.
Doma and Soyhan touted some great benefits of e-bikes, noting that their merchandise are water-tight and so they promote snow tires and different gear that makes them viable in winter.
“We are not limiting you to paddling,” Soyhan stated. “You can pedal and you can use motor power.”
“You don’t have to pay for gas each week and this is a sport, basically,” Doma stated. “Each day, you’re exercising.”
eBikeing is open on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For extra details about the company or to order their merchandise on-line, go to https://ebikeling.com/.