Electric bikes – spring is here!
Yeah, actually worked up a sweat on the big hill today, my cycle computer said 15.5 degrees C at 8:45! Nearly 600km on the odo, and last night, for the first time ever, I overtook another cyclist! I have seen …
Category: Electric Bikes
The trials and highlights of building and using E-Bikes
Electric Bikes – latest picture
Time to post the latest version of the bike. I’ve probably done 500km on it now, mostly in it’s current form – except I just added mudguards at the weekend!
Electric Bikes – Winter Riding
The odometer is creeping upwards on the bike, I am now taking the longer routes to and from the shop just for the fun of it, but the battery state was worrying me a little. Even after a full …
Electric Bikes – Windy Whitby
I am not ashamed to say that one of the main reasons I didn’t use my bike very often was the wind. Didn’t matter which direction I was going, the wind would be in my face. I don’t like invisible …
Electric Bikes – Winter
When I started building these bikes, there was a fair chunk of summer left to enjoy, but by the time they were roadworthy, the NZ winter had well and truly started. For those that don’t know about NZ weather, the …
Electric Bikes – cost
I have just done a spreadsheet of all the costs involved in getting these bike on the road, which breaks down as follows 1. Actual cost of parts used on the converted bikes. This includes connectors, and a few other …
Electric bikes – more thoughts
Last week I went to my first call out from the shop on the bike – the customer was quite amused by it! At the weekend, Lynn and I did a 27km round trip to Porirua, with a detour on …
Electric bikes – commuting statistics
I have just completed by 5th commuting ride, and the 4th since I topped up the batteries and reset the cycle computer. Total distance on the charge so far is 32 km, total elevation gained is 436 metres, average speed …
Electric bikes – first commute
After our electrifying success charging the batteries (god that is sad!) this morning I rode the bike to the shop. 4.8km by the main roads, but that would mean mixing it with buses, schoolchildren delivery vehicles and 40 ton trucks, …
Electric bikes – battery charging
We went for a longish ride today, and the battery I had been testing with and using for the last two weeks finally gave up the ghost, with a few hundred metres of uphill tracks to go! Boy are these …