Tuesday, January 3, 2017

I love ebikes

Here's me ebiking to work at Boss Fight Entertainment in McKinney, TX, on a custom ebike built from parts acquired from ebikes.ca. In this video, I was only running at around 40v 20a, and the rest of the power was coming from peddling (me!). I eventually pushed the controller to its limit (100v), and switched from A123 LiFe cells to the much more "touchy" LiPo chemistry.


Dallas turned out to be a wonderfully ebike friendly area. There are endless miles and miles of golf cart trails, bike/walking trails, and virtually unused streets all over the Dallas metroplex. Also, I was almost invisible in Dallas as an ebiker. (Which is both good, and bad.)

3 comments:

  1. That looks pretty fast, what are the typical speeds an ebike goes at?

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  2. Typical (and legal) in the US is up to 20mph in most states. At 40v I think the max speed was around 22mph without pedaling. At 100v I could go way over that if I wanted (and was crazy enough) to do so.

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  3. I took my ebike out for a spin on NYE to test out my new GoPro 5. Made it about half way to White Rock from Plano before I remembered I had to be at a party that night. Hopefully I can get a full recording to there in the next week, given we've had warmer weather lately

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