Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.
The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.
This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.
Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.
The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.
If Batman rode an eBike, he just might choose the Wing Freedom Fatty 2: always ready to rumble and packed with technology. And, yes, it comes in black. Built tough enough for the streets of Gotham, this sleek-frame entry from Wing Bikes brings Dark Knight vibes with its matte black finish and burly 20×4-inch puncture-resistant…
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We’ll dig into the numbers to find some answers.
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You can lease a car or even a smartphone these days. But can you lease an electric bike?
While you can lease an electric bike, choices are still limited and many ebike leasing options are better described as rentals or subscription services. Others are really rent-to-own programs rather than traditional leasing.
Electric bikes can be spendy. It must cost less to build your own, right?
Not necessarily.
A DIY electric bike kit with a battery starts at around $550 with prices for some electric bike kits approaching $1,000.
Twisting a throttle or pushing a thumb throttle isn’t much work.
So, is an electric bike still good exercise or are ebikes just a way to pretend to stay active?
The truth is that the amount of exercise you get depends on how you use your electric bike.
The truth is that it could be either. The amount of exercise you get depends on how you use your electric bike.
For many electric bike owners, an ebike becomes a main mode of transportation. Operating an ebike isn’t completely free. But how much does it really cost to charge an electric bike? Less than you might think.
