Cross-Canada by Ebike

[newjeff]

Hi Justin,

So glad the bike remains whole, in your possession, and salt free LOL. Keep it in your store and on display it is now a classic historical item. People In the 10 to 30 decades from now you talked about will be able to see and perhaps ride the first transcontinental e-bike.

Imagine the comments when e-travel is a reality and not confined to we hobbyists 25 - 30 yrs from now!
"How did it ever make it on those overweight underpowered batteries?"
"Forget the batteries look at the antique motor"
"What are those foot things for Daddy?"
"Why did he need 3 battery chargers? He could have exchanged them at any battery service station today!"
"I don't think those batteries are available anymore."
"Just imagine that controller was his 15th edition! We are still using his updated firmware in our car with his 200th edition Cruisermatic."
"It only averaged 2.4% regen! Why if we got under 25% regen we would trade our vehicle in."
"Look at the antique extracycle! Haven't seen one like that for 20 years"

What other comments would the rest of you add for 30 years in the future?

P.S. keep the orange tarp Justin. I hope it was useful!

[knoxie]

Hi Justin

Wow! that's brave! ha ha I dipped my toes in it last week and it was pretty chilly! I was holidaying in west Wales here in the UK, if I kept swimming I would have been able to join ya

Great to hear from you and super pleased that you have decided to keep the bike, I agree with the the others on here that it should be kept as testament to what you have done.

Bet you are keen to get back now? things will seem a little odd for a while when you get back home, you most probably will find your self still looking out for charging spots when you are out and about!

Best of luck with the return trip, enjoy the ride and keep taking those pictures, we need a fix on the return journey as well you know!!

Cheers

Knoxie

[gip_mad]

Congratulation Justin, you made it! You're great, keep up the good work! I can't wait to see pictures and details!

[Lessss]

justin_le
100 W

This is too low, I demand the moderator bump up his rating !! GRIN.

Justin Explain to the Train people what you just did and what is in the boxes see if they'll sponsor your return fair ( or at least that of the bike). After all you took one electric vehicle across country and are about to take another ( Deisel electric train) the other way!

[philf]

It would surprise me if Justin didn't, at some point during the trip, wangle a tour of the innards of that train - even if just to ogle the generators and control system

Sooooo glad you elected to keep the bike intact.

[Mathurin]

"What are those foot things for Daddy?"

I prefer to think bicycles will still exist 20-300 years from now.

[TylerDurden]

I prefer to think bicycles will still exist 20-300 years from now.

"Pedal-assist".

[Joshua Goldberg]

The bike stayed on the beach, but I didn't!
Plunge

I was looking forward to you on YouTube yelling "I'm going to meet Knoxie now" and then ride the e-bike into the Ocean---Oh Well.

[Affliction]

Let us not forget the years of planning Justin did to make this trip possible and the enthusiasm he has for E-bikes. If it weren't for fellow enthusiasts across Canada offering a warm/dry place to sleep and a 120 ac outlet I feel this trip would be quite daunting. I congradulate all of you who welcomed Justin into your homes. I'm sure his experience on the road will affect the product line at e-bikes.ca. Alot of people across the country have learned alot from Justin and I'm sure vice-versa. His controller is awesome! I want 2!
I hope he does this trip again next year but this time use a purpose built bike like the yubo mundo to carry all the cargo. He won't break that rear wheel :p
Waterproofing is a problem and I hope Justin likes my idea of ignition spray inside the controllers and motors; I did this and I havn't had a water related problem since.
I hope to see Justin again next year as he is a great advocate for electric bikes.
Ben...

[paultrafalgar]

Hey, Justin, how about a video of the KilowattHour Meeting so that all of us here can enjoy it with you?
Secondly, I emailed the Vancouver Museum to see if they would mount a display of your bike or if they knew of a more appropriate venue that would, hope you don't mind, you can always say no.

[rgody]

Congratulation Justin !!!. Definetly you are writing the ebike history.

If one day you decide to cross from north America to south America (Canada to Chile), let us know. We'll be glad to receive you here !!!

Saludos desde Viña del Mar, Chile
Rodrigo
http://www.movielectric.cl

[EDWIN]

HI GUYS
We met Justin at the the station this afternoon.The stopover was to be two hours but it turned into a fifteen minute dash to the grocery store.He is in good shape and very hungery.
EDWIN

[e=mcsquared]

you done your best and past the test
now you can rest
so many miles and lots of smiles
bravo
way to go
you are the star of the show


....
awsome on ya
Cory

[altcycles]

Congratulations Justin !
You must be home by now.
You must be so happy !
What an accomplishment !
I hope to see you in Vancouver soon.
Ross

[mikereidis]

HI GUYS
We met Justin at the the station this afternoon.The stopover was to be two hours but it turned into a fifteen minute dash to the grocery store.He is in good shape and very hungery.
EDWIN

Well I hope he got food at that grocery store and has sated his hunger... I presume the "train food" was somewhere between non-existent, non-edible and non-sanely priced. (ROFL!)

[justin_le]

Well I hope he got food at that grocery store and has sated his hunger... I presume the "train food" was somewhere between non-existent, non-edible and non-sanely priced. (ROFL!)

Hee, well the train food was surprisingly OK, but the train showers were quite non-existent.

Anyways, it all arrived in the Vancouver station more or less on time this morning. Zev, Alison, and Mark were there to greet me.

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Look how ordinary my bicycle has become! It's ridiculous, the entire cargo trike was overflowing with all the gear and bike parts that I managed to ride all the way across canada with. The regen braking is well considerably more effective now that I don't have the 170lb of vehicle inertia to stop. But, I'll be refitting the Xtracycle, recumbent seat, and all of the batteries and such this afternoon.

We'll be at the Foundation (2301 Main St) for a late dinner and/or drinks this evening. See I saw my ticket originally said 7:50 arrival time and just assumed that was pm, and they planned accordingly. In any case 8:30 pm it is. Hope to see a few of you there.

Now off to the shower!

Justin

[retread]

Welcome home Justin!

[Lessss]

... and still not a single mention on a national news broadcast that this trip has occurred. The Canadian media should be ashamed of itself! I don't care if Justin refused interviews etc.. They should still have mentioned it.

[newjeff]

... and still not a single mention on a national news broadcast that this trip has occurred. The Canadian media should be ashamed of itself! I don't care if Justin refused interviews etc.. They should still have mentioned it.

..

We don't need no stinkin publicity!

We all know this was an historic event!

Welcome home Justin, well done young fellow!

Wish I lived in Vancouver just to see the unbeatable smile not to mention the incredible stories he has to tell!!!!!

By the way the Toronto sun published a story September 21 page 33 under Canada votes. Title Banana-seat revolution by a political writer.

There was not much on Justin's trip just the writer's views on the parties green positions.

They (the press) seem to think we are an underground movement trying to do away with cars!

here is the article hope it comes through.

[newjeff]

Sorry the article is in jpg format and it looks like it didn't post.

If you e-mail me I can send you a copy?

here is my e-mail address

bwicksted@rogers.com

[Johnbear]

A bunch of the Vancouver gang met up with Justin last night at the Foundation restaurant here in Vancouver, Justin has a lot of stories - We were there till around 11 and got through about 1/4 of the trip across Canada!

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[Zoot Katz]

A bunch of the Vancouver gang met up with Justin last night at the Foundation restaurant here in Vancouver, Justin has a lot of stories - We were there till around 11 and got through about 1/4 of the trip across Canada!

Yeah, we owe Alison a big "Thank You" for arranging and coordinating it. That was a good evening.
Sixteen people showed up. There were nine ebikes parked in front. None of them were stock bikes.
I'm looking forward to a good turn out on Friday's Kilowatt Hour Ride.

[Lessss]

Gas cars yes. There is no reason why an electric car needs a battery ( or a very big one) Just electrify the roads like they do for trollies, there ya go electric cars are 100% feasible. Only people that need gas are out in the boonies people, and they could get by on a slightly larger battery.

[Xase]

So I finally got around to adding the last line in my cross-canada trip stats spreasheet. Truro -> Halifax.

From one coast right to the other, zigzagging at times to catch interesting people and interesting routes (and occasionally due to getting lost), here is how it all adds up:

Total Distance: 7110 km
Total Energy Used: 100.7 kWh
Captured Regen Energy: 2.4 kWh
Net Energy Used: 98.3 kWh
Average Speed: 33.4 km/h
Energy Usage: 13.8 Wh/km
# of awesome people: countless

and of course, total energy bill: $8.57

I was at one point considering just using a flat 10 cents / kWh for the cost calculation since that seemed like about the North American average. If this was the case, and I didn't have regen, I would have gone overbudget, but the regen kept me just under the 100 kWh mark. That was cool.

I wonder just how far a Toyota Prius would make it on a coast-to-coast trip with a $10 fuel/energy budget!

...slow and steady wins the race!

[Pheno]

Hey justin, One last questin. That was one hell of a long ride, did you hook up with any e-bike groupies to make the ride a little less lonely or was that stop with the dancing french girls outside of montreal the closeset thing? Im just courious about the stories outside the technical side of the trip. lol any way good on ya take care