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October 4, 2025 • 19 mins
Originally aired on October 4th, 2025. Doug's insightful interview with Wayne Arrington, for your listening pleasure.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, welcome back Doug Bikes show on Sports Talk
seven ninety eight thirty four, and has promised falsely earlier
because I messed up on the time, has promised I'm
gonna click us into Wayne Errington from Air Ride Bikes.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
What's going on, Wayne?

Speaker 3 (00:19):
How's it going today? Doug?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
You know, I'm doing all right.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
And just I like to introduce my new sponsors to
this audience with a kind of a good, solid interview.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
So they'll know who they're dealing with.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Just like, I feel really confident that you're going to
take care of them. By the way, were you able
to ride to breakfast this morning? I'm just kind of curious,
you know.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
I didn't. I yeah, I need a group of guys
every Saturday morning for breakfast.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
That's awesome.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
So yeah, I did not ride in them.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
That's okay, that's perfectly all right.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
It would have been so cool if you had, but
it's certainly not required.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Right Well, you.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Know, twenty nine to twenties kind of busy road, and
that's what I.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Oh my gosh, yeah, I wouldn't like.

Speaker 3 (01:05):
Okay, I don't want to get a run over out no.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Way to work, Okay, So I'm going to issue a
bad pun alert here. So tell me Wayne, how long
you been peddling electric bicycles?

Speaker 3 (01:18):
So I started this project, Doug about two years ago.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
A quick story here.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
I owned several other businesses and I had just sold
my previous business. Was on the Tennessee River at.

Speaker 4 (01:31):
The boat show.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Wow, and this guy had an electric bike there, and
I'm standing there looking at this bike.

Speaker 4 (01:36):
Is man, it's really cool.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
And he walks up about that time he says, have
you been on an electric bike before? I said, man,
I hadn't been on a bicycle in thirty years.

Speaker 4 (01:45):
And he's like, okay, would you like to take a test?

Speaker 3 (01:48):
I said, love to well. Being in Tennessee with the
hills and everything, Yeah, I got on this e bike
and up the hill with very little effort.

Speaker 4 (01:57):
I was blown away.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
That's kind of nice.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
Wow, Wow, I gotta have one of these. And so
the rest of the stories that now I'm selling e bikes,
you know. So, so you had quite an experience to
try one.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
So just in that little short time, even I know
there have been improvements made.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
But what bring us up to speed on?

Speaker 1 (02:19):
If you'll recalling and I'm sure you read about it
and saw it like everybody else did.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
For a while there, it looked like a lot.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Of these things. There were fire hazards in the garage.
There was all kinds of problems with them. Talk about
how they've been improved since that they're early stages.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Right well, and there's still a lot of that that
goes on, Doug. And the key to that is is
for the batteries. You want to make sure when you're
buying a knee bike that did it you L certified, okay,
because there's a lot of those bikes being sold online
today that still had that issue. So so that's the key.

(02:56):
When you're you're getting an EE bike, you want to
make sure that you L certified.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, that's Underwriters Laboratories. That's a big deal in electricity.
If you don't see that on there, it probably came
over here about eight nine, ten thousand miles on a
ship in a big old box.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
There you go, man, and we make sure all of
the bikes that we carry RUL certified. So you're not
gonna have that problem with fires and you're burning your
house down.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I don't even talk about that, Wayne. So let's jump
ahead the whole reason you called me last week. Was
to talk about these new hunting bikes you've got. Let's
kind of start right there with them. And there's a
lot of features on this particular model you're talking about
that would make even the heavyweight hunters among me and
my audience take note.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Right, absolutely, absolutely, So I just picked up a new brand.
We carried three different brands of e bikes in here,
and I picked up a new brand here a little
over a month ago called Rambo Bikes. Sounds good, and
this is an awesome, awesome bike. If you remember the movie,
you know the bike's a lot like that, Okay, and

(04:06):
you can't beat it. Uh, we're talking about a bike
with all wheel drive. Has two thousand.

Speaker 4 (04:12):
Watt motors on this bike, good lord.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
I mean it's putting out one hundred and eighty newton
meters a tort whereas the typical E bike starting out
twenty five thirty newton meters a torque could have. I mean,
if this bike could get traction, it.

Speaker 4 (04:28):
Would literally climb the tree for you.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
So full suspension. You can switch between front wheel drive,
rear wheel drive, or all wheel drop and it's just
an awesome, awesome bike.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
Drive.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
One of the things you and I talked about on
the phone was the and this is not only is
it stealthy, you're just gonna You're gonna sneak up on anything. Absolutely,
but you've also got the power if you're up in
there with a little I don't you And I talked
about those little trailers you can put on these bikes.
Now and ye throw a big old buck on there,

(05:06):
who cares? Throw a second hunter on there? Who cares?
Because that bike's going to be able to get both
of you into the woods and out of the woods
with your deer, isn't it.

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (05:15):
And not only the trailer to haul your game out with,
they also make a trailer you can put your kayak
on well, going up the beach, yeah, down out of
Matagordae or something like that. You throw your your kayak
on the back of that and get back into the
back country.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Man.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
I mean the range on these things are incredible.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, how far can you go with?

Speaker 3 (05:41):
So they come with they come standard with a twenty
ant battery and they quoted as I haven't actually tested this,
but they're saying you can get somewhere between sixty five
and one hundred and ten miles.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
On good Lord. Now, I'm not going that far deer
huh ever, right.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
Right, But you know it really depends on how.

Speaker 4 (06:02):
Your riding is. Yeah, of course you to the rider.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
If you're an all wheel drive, you're not going to
get as much mileage out of it as sure just
using rear wheel drive on but you can bump that
up to a thirty amp battery, and they're claiming on
a thirty amp you can get ninety five to one
hundred and forty miles on these.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Debscrive to Dallas.

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Oh my gosh, absolutely just absolutely incredible on distance with
these bikes.

Speaker 1 (06:31):
Wayne Errington from Air Ride Bikes here on the Doug
Pike Show, brand new sponsor of the program on this
second Saturday of BO season. These things are just ideal
I think for bow hunting, and long time ago, many
many years, probably thirty years ago now, Joe Doggett wrote
a piece called Biking for Bucks for Field and Stream,
and I was mad at him because he thought of

(06:52):
that title first.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
It's a really good title.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
And not only is it convenient, like that story of
his said, you're you're sneaking up on deer in places
where you wouldn't want to try to drive in there
on a truck, you wouldn't want to try to walk
in two miles in the dark before dawn. But on
that bicycle you can cover that ground. Well, I guess

(07:17):
as quick as you can keep the little headlight in
front of you from showing you a big tree in front.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Huh right, how fast do those things go?

Speaker 4 (07:26):
You know?

Speaker 3 (07:26):
That's an excellent question, Doug. So most most e bikes
that are what we call street legal are regulated to
a maximum speed of twenty eight miles an hour. Okay,
but these being off road bikes, they're they're really not
street legal because the one thing is the thousand watt
motor capacity and you're having dual motors on it, where

(07:48):
street legal bike is maximum is seven hundred and fifty
watts on it. So speed wise, I mean, I've had
this bike up to thirty miles an hour in a
holy cow one hundred yard run and I ran out
of roads down. But on the control panel it looks

(08:11):
like when they tested out, I said the maximum speed
on what they call the hell Cat was thirty seven
point eight miles an hour.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
Good golly cruising on a bicycle.

Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yea, it is holy Cow.

Speaker 1 (08:22):
I don't know if I want to do thirty seven
miles an hour on a bicycle, especially in the woods,
that might be a little tough.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Right, maybe on the asphalt road to get to the gate. Right,
I'll tell you what. Let's let me do this.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
Can I put you on hold and then come back
because I got another five or six good questions I
want to ask you about it. Yeah, about more of
the cruising bikes since we're coming up into the holiday
season and whatnot, and maybe buying one for ourselves or
buying one for a family member. Wayne Errington from air
Ride Bikes, I'm gonna put him on hold and we're
gonna take a little break here.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Hang tight, Wayne, I'll be right back.

Speaker 4 (08:56):
Man.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Let's get Wayne Errington back on the phone from air
Ride Bikes.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Wayne.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Thanks for sticking around, buddy. I appreciate it, man.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
Yeah, no problem, glad to be here.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Does So, let's get go ahead real quick here. You're
talking about the black Horse golf course. Yes, I'm actually
working on the device right now to pull a pull
cart behind your oh, and I'm hoping to get that
out to the golf courses here real soon. So when

(09:25):
you're talking about using your e bike on a golf course,
you're actually.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
Speeding up play.

Speaker 3 (09:30):
So I'm sure golf courses will be able to get
more people through the course throughout the day if they
put them on e bikes. But again that's something I'm
working on here.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
Okay, I like the way you think, no question about it.
So let's get out of the let's get out of
the woods.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
And kind of back on the street and talk about how, uh,
just these kind of bikes can make it simpler to
get to the grocery store for bread and milk or
just a just a ride around when weather gets nice.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
How many cruising models you got out there?

Speaker 4 (10:02):
Oh? Wow, that's a good question.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
So I'm going to say probably, I mean what I
call street legal cruising models. There's several different ones in there.
I've probably got sixteen different models, wow, okay.

Speaker 4 (10:17):
Or what I call street.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
Legal, I mean some of those or fat tire bikes,
some of those are folding bikes, some of those little
kids bikes. Some of are what we call true commuter
bikes designed to.

Speaker 4 (10:30):
Go to work.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
We have what we call two up bikes where you
can have two people on them.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
We have cargo bikes that you.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Know, to go to the grocery store with all your
family on the back of it, kind of like a
second suv, you.

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Know, yeah, wow, So.

Speaker 4 (10:49):
A lot of options.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
Probably breezier, but you know again, in the fall of
the spring, it'd be really nice to be just riding
behind the driver of an e bike, get a little
breeze in your face.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Let me ask you this. You know you kind of
went over.

Speaker 1 (11:06):
Let me jump in here before I forget this. You
you glossed over the fold up bikes? What are the
advantages in the disadvantages of folding e bike?

Speaker 3 (11:16):
So we sell a ton of folding bikes to our vears.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
Oh yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
Something that they can fold up and put in a
big plastic cub and and shoving their rv Uh. That's
probably our number one selling bikes today. Uh. And it's
the r veers that are by them, so matter of
fact that we've got a couple of people coming in
this morning to look at them.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
How how small do they fold up? Can you what?

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Can you put it into a small a small car trunk?
Could you put it in like a preus trunk since
we're all electric here previous trunk? I'm not sure how
big that is?

Speaker 2 (11:55):
Who knows definitely.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Get them in the back of a small suv. Sure, yeah, yeah,
I think I forget the exact dimensions on it, right,
twenty nine inches high. People put them in a fifty gallon.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
Plastic tub.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
Oh okay, put them in on the RVs and stuff.
But you can certainly ghet them in the trunk of
most cars.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Okay, fair enough, And let's talk about price.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Now we haven't mentioned money, but there's got to be
a range of pricing on e bikes that you consider
quality enough for you to have them in your store.
What's what's country level and what's all spruced up with
a giant Rambow Because I already got a friend of
mine who emails that I'm eyeball in that thing wherever
it is.

Speaker 3 (12:41):
Right right, So our bank store, I mean, we start
up with kids bikes. We've got an electric bike that's
made by Rambow that starts out about seven hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Oh wow, Okay.

Speaker 3 (12:54):
Our most popular bike that we sell is twelve ninety nine,
and then we charge one hundred and fifty dollars to
set it up and everything. So that's probably our best
selling entry level bike. And then when you start getting
up into the Rambow bus. Go come on, you have
six Yeah, they have sixteen different models, no Rainbow, and

(13:19):
I say starting out at that sixty nine mark. Now
the top of the line is what they call the Hellcat,
which we spoke a little bit about every.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Bell, every whistle. That's what I want.

Speaker 3 (13:29):
You got it a little over six grand for that
pickle bike.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
What's the longevity of these things if they're well maintained,
which they should be. And by the way, I like
the fact that you put those things together. It costs
a little bit of money, but I would I wouldn't
want to end up trying to put my own e
bike together and look down and there's a part left
in the box.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
We get some people bringing those in here at least
once a week that they've tried to do it to
the bells and it just didn't work out.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
For It's not like putting a picnic table together for
my Kia.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
Is it right?

Speaker 3 (14:07):
But talking about longevity, So we carry a bike made
by Troxus.

Speaker 4 (14:12):
This bike carries a five year warranty.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
Fender defender on this bike.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (14:18):
Uh, it is an awesome built bike. They can only
do that because the quality components.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
They're using in them.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
Uh, we're using buffant motors, Shamano shifters and trailers.

Speaker 4 (14:30):
Uh, tectro hydraulic brakes.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
Wow, Samsung sell batteries.

Speaker 4 (14:35):
So it's a quality doubt.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
Uh. The only thing I hate about it is when
I sell it, I don't ever see it again because
it's not breaking down.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
Yeah, it's like buying a lure that that never breaks
down and never falls apart exactly.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
So that that's the disadvantage of me selling that bike.
I don't I don't see that service revenue coming.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Back too bad. Well, yeah, that's good and bad, you know.
You know what I'm talking about. Right, So where exactly
are you on Tomball Parkway?

Speaker 3 (15:05):
So we're in the four corner shopping center in Tomball,
which is at the corner of twenty nine to twenty
and to forty nine business. There's a movie theater in
that shopping center. There's a Specs which everybody knows about
in the shopping center. So yeah, that's where we're at.
We're open here on Mondays. I Bowl Monday morning, so

(15:28):
I don't open the shop till two thirty, but two
thirty to six on Monday Tuesday. We're Tuesday through Thursday.
Were open from ten to six Friday and Saturday ten
to four. Okay, the actual address is two eight four
eight five.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
T X two forty nine.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
To forty nine. Sounds good. What kind of bowler are you?

Speaker 4 (15:53):
I'm an average bowler.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
That's a sand bager for sure, right, yeah, yeah, just
something his average.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
Have you ever heard of a guy named Red Shrum?

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Name sounds familiar. I can't play.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
He and I went to high school together, and he
was probably one of the only kids who really bowled
a lot and ended up becoming really really good at bowling.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
And still I'm sure he's still that. He may be
bowling this morning. Who knows.

Speaker 1 (16:22):
If you competitively bold, which it sounds like you do,
but you're not really talking about it, you've probably bumped
into him somewhere around town.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
No. Actually, I bowled in a senior league.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Okay, boy, he would be too, right now, I guarantee
you right.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
So, yeah, my wife and I started this about a
year ago.

Speaker 4 (16:42):
Oh wow, I hadn't bowled. It's been forty years.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Since I bowled, and then we started with this league
here about a year ago.

Speaker 4 (16:49):
So it's been a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (16:50):
I thought I was going to try to do that
a long time ago. Today i'd probably have to bowl
an eight pound ball. Man, I'm so tired and weak.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
I'm hitting little white balls. I love hitting golf balls.

Speaker 4 (17:00):
So oh, there you go.

Speaker 1 (17:01):
I'm gonna leave the I'm gonna leave the bowling to you.
I don't know that my shoulder could take that anymore.
Wayne Errington Air Ride Bikes up there on two forty nine,
just right there in tom Ball.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
You can find him. I would call first.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
Those hours are a little bit a little bit confusing,
but I think that at your age and with all
the other businesses you run, they're pretty generous, so that
somebody wants to get in there, they'll certainly find you
find the lights on.

Speaker 4 (17:28):
Huh right, Absolutely wonderful.

Speaker 2 (17:31):
Well, welcome to the family, man, I'm glad to have
you on.

Speaker 3 (17:34):
Thank you. Let me give you my website. Really cool,
let's do that.

Speaker 4 (17:37):
Well, it's air Ride Bikes.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
So that's spelled A R R I D E E
I K E S dot com.

Speaker 2 (17:46):
Yeah, you beat me to it. Don't worry.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
I'm gonna be saying that a lot, and I'm probably
gonna get more emails than just the one I got
so far.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
Because I think, did I think I look at.

Speaker 1 (17:56):
Air ride bike or not air ride, but just I
look at e bikes kind of is out of sight,
out of mind. But every time somebody starts talking about
them going, you know, I kind of want to look
at that, especially for these little for hunting and for fishing.
Unbelievable for somebody who's a little bit older and can't
walk very far through a state park or through anywhere

(18:19):
that there might be some nice scenic views at the
end of a long hike, jump on an ee bike
and let the bike take you up the hill.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
That's I really like, go ahead for.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Those people that have a little hard time getting around
or aren't quite balanced. We also carry a trike o nice, yeah,
which makes it really really nice for those people that
may have a handicap there, So I understand.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
Yeah, it's it's the industry has come a long ways
in a very short time, and I'm really glad to
now I know that that the UL listed batteries, the
underwriters laboratory batteries are the ones that are gonna work,
and the other ones are coming in from god knows
where around the world where they don't care whether an
American garage catches on fire or not.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
So there you go.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
I appreciate it, Wayne Is. This is gonna be fun.

Speaker 4 (19:09):
Man.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
I'm gonna take care of you by looking forward to it.
My pleasure. Thanks man. See you all right, audios have
great uh huh.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Oh you too, man, audios. He's gonna go bowling, you
know he is. He's got a breakfast in him. He's
wrapped up this that he needed to do this morning.
That closest bowling alley is is gonna be. He's gonna
be screeching tires getting over there.
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