Karen Weiner and Brett Thurber have devoted their careers to e-bikes. In 2010, as recent college graduates, the couple decided to open a shop in San Francisco called the New Wheel that sold electric bicycles, which were a relatively new concept at the time. They believed that these new vehicles could help people get out of their cars, making cities more walkable and drastically reducing carbon emissions. But there was one problem. Weiner, who is under 5 feet tall, couldn’t even mount... Read this story
