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    The Ebiker Joke thread...

    Oh oh... It's time for a nasty ebiker joke... Currently in town, on Nathan Philips Square, right outside Toronto's City Hall, the art of Ai Weiwei... by one account "one of China's foremost contemporary artists". There are plenty of pics online about his art exhibit, but the sign I saw today...
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    How to Solar Charge an Electric Bicycle

    Sorry ddk... It was a question for "tomtom123" from NYC actually, but yours is still "useful" info anyway. In my little burg currently businesses "paying the full rate" (disc's "kick in" for "off peak times") pay 7.8 ¢/kWh, if I understand correctly, so yer dollar would cover about 12.82 kWh...
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    How to Solar Charge an Electric Bicycle

    Watt are the "size" (and number of) your PV panels? And how many hours of daylight do you have... And can the panels be oriented to face and follow the sun? L
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    How to Solar Charge an Electric Bicycle

    Hi ddk! You said: Hence the idea of LOTS of panels which are a shared "public utility"... And you said: In my burg in southern Ontario, Canada, we have 44% (the usual percentage of daylight hours with bright sunshine) meaning 2038 hours over 303 days (all are averages for the years 1971...
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    How to Solar Charge an Electric Bicycle

    Ummm...How to solar charge an electric bicycle? (See title of this thread) Sunlight, I hope? (Hehe...) Anywhooo... It's all very wonderful to heavy-up a vehicle with solar panels, and maybe provide some cover from the sun, rain, wind (plus electricity, of course), but seems to me a nice...
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    The life of the peripatetic ebiker

    Well... Did show up (at 5min after to appointed time) for the fellow to have a look again, and maybe to fix (hopefully) my trike (frame)... I though it might be an easy/quick fix (weld, etc) job, and I disassembled the trike for him (unbolted and removed the back basket) and this is watt we...
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    How to Solar Charge an Electric Bicycle

    Hey ddk... BTW re electric slot cars... Our TERA Prez mentioned yesterday a "big problem" with hooking up to an (low voltage) electric rail... No passing! And I gotta admit, that is true. But hey, not much different than today, with our "bumper-to-bumper" traffic, in watt used to be termed a...
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    The Ebiker Joke thread...

    Well, well... The "green lady" just drove by! These folks: http://www.mytidylady.com/ Guess the boss or somebody drives a lovely white one of these: Hey! They spelt Sorrento (two "rr"s) wrong! (Looks like a pretty little town in southern Italy). The Kia "Sorento" (car) offers the owner their...
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    The Ebiker Joke thread...

    OK... It's ebiker joke time again! Seen just now in my town, a driver training (education) vehicle (automobile): Slightly ebiker modified: Hey, ebikers like a bit of a chuckle, right? L
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    North Americas most Electric Bicycle UNFRIENDLY City

    Well, well... In the news online recently, "Chariots energize electric vehicle market", from Las Vegas, Nevada, seen here: http://www.reviewjournal.com/autos/drive/chariots-energize-electric-vehicle-market The word "pedicabs" only mentioned once. The pic accompanying the article of rows of...
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    How to Solar Charge an Electric Bicycle

    Hiya ddk! So, quick question for you please? Have ya EVer seen or played with an electric slot car toy? EVer though it might be nice to take at least some of your trips hooked up to a rail, with power at least some of the time, from PV solar panels? Mounted on canopies that might keep off some...
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    Lac-Megantic Explosions, Fire Sparked By Train Derailment in

    Oh goody... In the Calgary, Alberta "Herald" newspaper earlier this week, the article "Green leader lauds oilsands court ruling", sub-titled "Elizabeth May advocates public input", online here: http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Green+leader+lauds+oilsands+court+ruling/9009127/story.html ...
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    How to Solar Charge an Electric Bicycle

    Sigh... Had lunch yesterday with a business lady and former landlord (lady) of mine (and the proud owner of her first ebike) that paid for my lunch (again!), to try and interest her in the solar canopy "experiment" thingee... But she insists I need a thing called a "business plan". I am more...
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    The life of the peripatetic ebiker

    Ya Sir! Good point, thank you! I actually have an appointment at 8 tomorrow am to ride the sorta broken trike (hey! sorta like watt I am! Hehe...) gingerly/gently over to a close-by "auto" frame, etc. repair shop where I explained today about my idea to "mod" the frame... So yah, nuts and bolts...
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    The life of the peripatetic ebiker

    Well, well, well... I wonder watt the record is for fastest time for a new weld to break... Now gotta stop the hunt temporarily (for a nice piece of ash, or two or three - see above re battens) and look for a piece of metal I can attach to the trike basket frame to get me a three-legged...
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    In China

    Oh oh... Now we're going to lapse into Chinese astromylogistic zodiac signs... (The new year begins on February 10th shortly after the New moon in Aquarius, the humanitarian of the zodiac.) Technically, I am a "snake"...And it's true, I prefer to slither around in the cracks... Between "what is...
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    Lac-Megantic Explosions, Fire Sparked By Train Derailment in

    Hi Portland! I actually LOVE "plastic"... But used as "fossil fuels" for transportation, and burned and exhausted into my face/air (and yours, and your kids and your friends and neighbours?), not so much... In many cities in Ontariario (including my little one-horse town), we currently have a...
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    The life of the peripatetic ebiker

    Maybe file this under "Sneaky ways to promote the electric bicycle"... This short article and picture/photo just submitted to a local newspaper/web site. And my piece: 101 Coxwell Avenue Coxwell Ave, south of Gerrard Street East Toronto Ontario Laughlin ("Lock") Hughes Ermmm... Wish me...
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    Lac-Megantic Explosions, Fire Sparked By Train Derailment in

    And in todays local "rag" (aka "newspaper"), article online here: http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/10/06/rockers_join_forces_in_line_9_protest.html The title "Rockers join forces in Line 9 protest", and the subtitle "Upwards of 2,000 people attended a protest concert against Enbridge’s...
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    Electric Paraglider + Electric Hanglider

    Ohhh... SAILplane? Works for me... L
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    In China

    Careful Nep... Expect to see maybe sometime soon bunches of Aussies staggering around claiming they are thirsty from visiting and tasting that too salty lake... L
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    The life of the peripatetic ebiker

    Bought today, watt EVery good ebiker should have in their "toolbox": EVerybuddy here has a piece of natural chamois in their "kit", right? Basically got tired of chucking trees (paper napkins, usually leftovers from homes for the coffee-addicted) in the garbage/recycling... Not, back to the...
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    In China

    Ermmm... That's a "flat"? Or at least, the phone ringing tends to "fall flat" whenEVer it rings, sorta guaranteed to be while you are doing something else... L
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    In China

    Sooo mate... Folks in China now have to learn some visitors may like to hoist a schooner with a sheila beside the billabong? Cor blimey! Hehe... L
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    Prop Pusher E-bikes

    Ummmm... More "retro" than 1913? :lol: L
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