I took Cave Creek Road to Bell and Bell to work, just like yesterday. Uneventful, same as then.
To see what the alternate route would be like, I took 44th Street south to Greenway Road, then that east to Greenway Parkway, and that east to 31st Ave, and south on that to home from there.
Surprisingly, the road was in very good condition, with many stretches in excellent shape, and one long stretch brand new. Like Bell Road, Greenway and especially Greenway Parkway are 45MPH for most of the stretch I rode, and three lanes westbound for most of that. Almost everyone went around me in the other two lanes, usually changing lanes many car lengths back, often signalling the lane change (which is really unusual around here). A few only went just far enough around me to not hit me, but all of them were far enough away to not worry about much. Only one honked at me, and they did it exactly as they were at my left rear quarter passing me, then they gunned their engine and went from about 50 to over 70, maybe 80MPH and almost ran right up the rear end of traffic ahead of them before they barely managed to slow down.
It was a nice enough ride, and in all 17 miles, I only had to stop twice before getting onto 31st avenue, probably 9 miles continuous at 20MPH before the first stop, and several more miles before the next one. I managed to make two of the lights on 31st Ave without stopping, but the 1/2 mile stop signs on a couple of the roads plus a 15MPH school zone didnt' help.
Before I got to 31st Ave, Wh/mile was 27.5; it got a lot less efficient after that, down to 29.6.
Motor never got hot on the wya home, but it definitely got hot on the CCR uphills.
Ride data CCR/Bell to work:
54m 58s trip time
14.54miles
21.5mph max
14.6mph avg
31.6Wh/mile
8.113Ah
424.08Wh
51.84Amax
58.0Vstart
52Vrest
47.8Vmin
0% Regen
0Ah Regen
-13.6A peak Regen
Ride data GW/31st home:
1h 1m 29s trip time
17.14miles
23.0mph max
16.7mph avg
29.6Wh/mile
9.657Ah
504.42Wh
51.67Amax
58.3Vstart
51.9Vrest
47Vmin
0% Regen
0Ah Regen
-8.47A peak Regen
Oh, and I forgot to mention yesterday that the "airless" tire on the rear SUCKS with the weight of both packs plus my stuff for work loading down the rear. It's enough to make the already mushy-feeling tire actively wobble around, almost like having a tire slip off the rim when it's flat, if you've ever had that happen. It's scary at speed going downhill or in a narrow strip with traffic next to you. It's much less of a problem with less weight on it, but it is still bad enough that I don't like it at all.
If it weren't for the probability of a rear flat, and the essentially complete inabilty to fix that on the road due to the way my rear rack/pods work on DGA, I'd just put a normal tube in the tire again. It *can* be fixed on the road, but to get to anyting on it you have to take the wheel off, and that means laying the bike on it's back (after unloading the pod completely), and taking the brake pads off because the arms cant' retract enough to clear the tire.
Oh, well.
To see what the alternate route would be like, I took 44th Street south to Greenway Road, then that east to Greenway Parkway, and that east to 31st Ave, and south on that to home from there.
Surprisingly, the road was in very good condition, with many stretches in excellent shape, and one long stretch brand new. Like Bell Road, Greenway and especially Greenway Parkway are 45MPH for most of the stretch I rode, and three lanes westbound for most of that. Almost everyone went around me in the other two lanes, usually changing lanes many car lengths back, often signalling the lane change (which is really unusual around here). A few only went just far enough around me to not hit me, but all of them were far enough away to not worry about much. Only one honked at me, and they did it exactly as they were at my left rear quarter passing me, then they gunned their engine and went from about 50 to over 70, maybe 80MPH and almost ran right up the rear end of traffic ahead of them before they barely managed to slow down.
It was a nice enough ride, and in all 17 miles, I only had to stop twice before getting onto 31st avenue, probably 9 miles continuous at 20MPH before the first stop, and several more miles before the next one. I managed to make two of the lights on 31st Ave without stopping, but the 1/2 mile stop signs on a couple of the roads plus a 15MPH school zone didnt' help.
Before I got to 31st Ave, Wh/mile was 27.5; it got a lot less efficient after that, down to 29.6.
Motor never got hot on the wya home, but it definitely got hot on the CCR uphills.
Ride data CCR/Bell to work:
54m 58s trip time
14.54miles
21.5mph max
14.6mph avg
31.6Wh/mile
8.113Ah
424.08Wh
51.84Amax
58.0Vstart
52Vrest
47.8Vmin
0% Regen
0Ah Regen
-13.6A peak Regen
Ride data GW/31st home:
1h 1m 29s trip time
17.14miles
23.0mph max
16.7mph avg
29.6Wh/mile
9.657Ah
504.42Wh
51.67Amax
58.3Vstart
51.9Vrest
47Vmin
0% Regen
0Ah Regen
-8.47A peak Regen
Oh, and I forgot to mention yesterday that the "airless" tire on the rear SUCKS with the weight of both packs plus my stuff for work loading down the rear. It's enough to make the already mushy-feeling tire actively wobble around, almost like having a tire slip off the rim when it's flat, if you've ever had that happen. It's scary at speed going downhill or in a narrow strip with traffic next to you. It's much less of a problem with less weight on it, but it is still bad enough that I don't like it at all.
If it weren't for the probability of a rear flat, and the essentially complete inabilty to fix that on the road due to the way my rear rack/pods work on DGA, I'd just put a normal tube in the tire again. It *can* be fixed on the road, but to get to anyting on it you have to take the wheel off, and that means laying the bike on it's back (after unloading the pod completely), and taking the brake pads off because the arms cant' retract enough to clear the tire.
Oh, well.