750W Crystalyte DC Hub Motor
110V Controller
110V AC 4 Stroke 1500W Generator with rectifier and filter
Cruise speed with tadpole tandem and 8 foot trailer: 50 mph, opened up to 70
mph/
Our Asses 4 ounces off the pavement, reclined, fiberglass nose cone from a
Velomobile,
Fiberglass Aero trailer with tri-spoke aluminum wheels with disc brakes/
Aluminum tri-spoke front tadpole wheels with disc brakes/
Cro-Moly 4130
Egg Beaters
4 PC Speaker sound system
On-Board Toshiba P-20 Laptop with Cell link/
Elaborate lighting system using ultra-brite LEDs (almost 100 LEDs) on 72V
Ni-MH X 13Ah system/
On-Board coffee maker/
55 square foot canvas Sail with telescopic mast for Freewheeling Wind Power
Assist/
Burning Man 1st, Vancouver 2nd/
Joshua
www.evsolutions.net
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> "Joshua Goldberg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> we are looking at leaving Toronto July 01, there is another tadpole
>> coming
>> with us re: a chap doing a trans-Canada crossing. We are cheating, we are
>> using a DC Motor to supplement the pedals.
>
> Without some (or all) of
>
> a) external power
> b) solar panels
> c) regenerative braking
>
> you will have a net loss carrying a motor and battery.
>
> Electrically assisted cycling is only less work when
>
> a) you can charge the battery from an external source
> b) you use the battery a high percentage of the time you are riding -
> which
> means
> c) you are not going very far between charges
>
>