Big mountain race today on my 100V 5305

[methods]

I'm a physicist, well a physicist turned engineer might be more accurate. Both my e-bikes behave according to classical theory. . . .

Don't take my jabs to heart. My wife is a physicist (and a damn good one) so physicists are the butt of a lot of my jokes. The friends who I raced are also physicists and there is an ongoing rivalry between our two labs: The physicists vs the engineers. Remember that I work out in nuke-land where most of the physicists look like vagrants and speak in tongs. The entire town I live in is based around a lab full of nutty physicists, or as the blue collar folks call them, propeller heads.

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[swbluto]

Hmmm. How well do the lycra guys know the guards? Have to admit, I hope the local police never explode my battery to see if it is a bomb! Sure as hell looks like one!

Yeah the do look like bombs. I had the batteries that I bought from China sent to me at my office. The day they arrived I tossed them into my backpack and boarded the train I normally take on my daily commute home. That day I was really tired and fell asleep on the train. I was awakened by a bomb sniffing dog in my face. The police officer holding the dog's leash pointed to my backpack on the seat next to me and said "Can you please open that up Sir?" Everyone's eyes on that train car grew wide open when that bomb squad police pulled out the battery packs with the BMS and wires attached to it.

That sounds incredible. Literally. In-credible. I have a hard time believing it.

If you were armed with my ping battery, you'd be in deep kimshee as it doesn't have any labels whatsoever. It's just wrapped in anonymously gray duct tape with three wires leading out of it. I purposely conceal the battery, including its wires, in a portable canvas bags to preclude any possible worries from "the public". :lol:

 

[dogman dan]

Amazing how much the world has changed that a potentialy illegal search makes us feel safer now. Of course most folks gave up going around holding 20 or more years ago. I do wonder what the next thing to happen would have been had you been foolish enough to refuse to open the bag.

 

[methods]

Stand up for your rights
Choose your battles
Do whats right

 

[swampjeep]

It's hard to believe those Livermore Lab guys are innumerate. Add up the watts.

They were physicists, need I say more? Maybe they thought my efficiency was 2% like some of their lasers.

There is an amazing amount of disinformation circulating about electric vehicles. I fight the good fight every day but it is hard work. I have found that you have to show them. Telling them is not enough.

Today I was pulled over by the lab police and subjected to a 20 minute search. They swiped my batteries for explosives and after asking me no less than 3 times what my batteries were they insisted that "they aint ever see no batteries that look like that before". This was all after I pulled up at 35mph. . . Go figure. Guy can go 40mph on a bike so it must be explosive.

My other "buddy" also informed me yesterday that nobody will ever want an electric sports car because "it doesnt SOUND fast. . . nobody wants to go whoooosh, they want to go VRROOOOOM".

Well. . . I guess I stand corrected.

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LOL, tell this to the GM engineers here, you wouldnt' believe what we go thru so the 500hp Cadillacs dont' make any noise, even the Corvette for that matter... sound deadners, engine covers, special ribbing in the oil pan all kinds of stuff, and only for one reason... quiet engines

 

[DCM]

My other "buddy" also informed me yesterday that nobody will ever want an electric sports car because "it doesnt SOUND fast. . . nobody wants to go whoooosh, they want to go VRROOOOOM".

Then they should get one of these ---> http://www.vroombox.com :lol:

 

[methods]

I think I just threw up a little in my mouth
Excuse me while I go cut my eyes out with a butter knife

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