| Re: electric bikes on centuries
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:01:31 -0500, "Roger Zoul"
<rogerzoul2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Perhaps. We'll see. My guess is it won't happen. What kind of electric
>bike do you envision that will ever do a century that will actually make
>them not stand out? How big of a battery and motor are we talking here to
>push someone 100 miles over possibly hilly (around here) terrain? Zipping
>along at 30 mph alone would make anyone stand out.
The comment was based on the original premise, and the people I was
talking about would have been riding with their spouses, so make that
somewhere in the 12-15 mph group. What, you only drive your car near
the peg on the speedometer? Guess that makes you stand out too.
Second, I don't expect that the bike will actually exist soon. If the
technology comes about to run some of the electric cars at the auto
shows, the bike may show up a few years later. So it would be about
2015 or so, and not my immediate concern. The various transportation
designs that have small motors at the individual wheels would IMO
yield a perfect base for such a bike motor, but it isn't feasible yet
for the market. (My understanding that there is a Japanese car that is
functional with small, powerful electric motors at each wheel, but
which are prohibitively expensive).
Curtis L. Russell
Odenton, MD (USA)
Just someone on two wheels...
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