Lock
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This thread started as a "fresh" thread on a "fresh" Yahoo "Groups" online forum... but I have "jumped ship" yet again (that Yahoo "Groups" stuff was just waaay tooo horrible/aweful for words), and I am "back aboard" ES, to again sit at the feet of the Ebike Masters here, to beg their forgiveness, and hope if I am good (well, OK, not TOO mean, at least not to fellow ebikers here) that the Gods of ES will let me stay! Pretty please?
Cheers
Laughlin ("Lock") Hughes
Toronto
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Well... Lessee... It all started when I was born, in Vic...
Hehe... SORRY, KIDDING!
Really, the subject is the "power-assisted bicycle"... (The name used in Canadian Federal law, and most Canadian Provincial laws, including Ontario...), aka the "ebike", short for "electric bicycle"...
My own interest in ebikes really started with electric BOATS, for service across Toronto harbour (one nautical miles, where there are no hills to speak of).
I knew the possibility existed for fast and silent propulsion of boats, including ferryboats, without the noise and "stink" of the diesel engine...
So to re-educate myself with electric motors, etc (before I went through accounting (CGA), and before I graduated with a "Certificate on Marketing" from Ryerson (Polytechnical Institute, before it was a "University"), I first went to University to become an electrical engineer, or "EE", as I had for years as a kid played with electrical "things"...), I bought myself an electric standup "scooter" to play with...
I suppose the very first day I had the thing I knew I had something "special" in my hands...
This was years before Canada, and then the provinces like Ontario legalized the "power-assisted bicycle". My first stand-up scooter did not have pedals (as current laws stipulate), unfortunately, but instead could be "kicked" with your feet... Which I was quite happy to do, to extend the range of the 24 volt (two x 12 volt) 10 amp-hour lead-acid batteries under the deck (place where you stand on your feet)... I believe it was an early version of the Currie "Flyer SE" (top speed near 18 mph... near 29 kmg, with freshly charged SLA batteries and with a "light weight" rider (kid))...
That "scooter" flew with me once... Folded up into a bag, Air Canada staff looked down over their counter and pronounced it "too small to charge me for a bicycle"... So it flew with me as "luggage"! Anywhooo... That scooter rode around Toronto for some years, and most folks *loved* the thing, and trying it out for themselves...
Then one day the "sky came crashing down"...
At the time I was living on Toronto Islands (Wards), and the Parks Supervisor (Hi Warren!) told me he had had several "complaints" (without his naming names)... And that henceforth I was no longer to bring the little scooter onto the Toronto Islands (I had been using it to get to work/clients in the city)...
So for me, that's how this "fight" in Ontario all got started... But at the time most folks in Ontario had never even heard about electric scooters (or bicycles), so there was nobodies shoulder I could cry on...
To be continued...
L
Cheers
Laughlin ("Lock") Hughes
Toronto
________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Well... Lessee... It all started when I was born, in Vic...
Hehe... SORRY, KIDDING!
Really, the subject is the "power-assisted bicycle"... (The name used in Canadian Federal law, and most Canadian Provincial laws, including Ontario...), aka the "ebike", short for "electric bicycle"...
My own interest in ebikes really started with electric BOATS, for service across Toronto harbour (one nautical miles, where there are no hills to speak of).
I knew the possibility existed for fast and silent propulsion of boats, including ferryboats, without the noise and "stink" of the diesel engine...
So to re-educate myself with electric motors, etc (before I went through accounting (CGA), and before I graduated with a "Certificate on Marketing" from Ryerson (Polytechnical Institute, before it was a "University"), I first went to University to become an electrical engineer, or "EE", as I had for years as a kid played with electrical "things"...), I bought myself an electric standup "scooter" to play with...
I suppose the very first day I had the thing I knew I had something "special" in my hands...
This was years before Canada, and then the provinces like Ontario legalized the "power-assisted bicycle". My first stand-up scooter did not have pedals (as current laws stipulate), unfortunately, but instead could be "kicked" with your feet... Which I was quite happy to do, to extend the range of the 24 volt (two x 12 volt) 10 amp-hour lead-acid batteries under the deck (place where you stand on your feet)... I believe it was an early version of the Currie "Flyer SE" (top speed near 18 mph... near 29 kmg, with freshly charged SLA batteries and with a "light weight" rider (kid))...
That "scooter" flew with me once... Folded up into a bag, Air Canada staff looked down over their counter and pronounced it "too small to charge me for a bicycle"... So it flew with me as "luggage"! Anywhooo... That scooter rode around Toronto for some years, and most folks *loved* the thing, and trying it out for themselves...
Then one day the "sky came crashing down"...
At the time I was living on Toronto Islands (Wards), and the Parks Supervisor (Hi Warren!) told me he had had several "complaints" (without his naming names)... And that henceforth I was no longer to bring the little scooter onto the Toronto Islands (I had been using it to get to work/clients in the city)...
So for me, that's how this "fight" in Ontario all got started... But at the time most folks in Ontario had never even heard about electric scooters (or bicycles), so there was nobodies shoulder I could cry on...
To be continued...
L