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I enjoy reading your journals and have followed all your previous trips. You 2 amaze me! I am so happy to read your journals as you show all the stuff that I like to eat and places you visit are fun. Even after accidents you just get up and go again, much like me, no pain, no gain! Biking is so enjoyable. And with electric assist, it is even more fun! I have had electric bikes since 2007 but on tour I only used my pedal bikes until now......let our old bodies go further!
3 years agoThanks Ellen, I will go read the article now, then I am sure I will have many questions.
3 years agoOh, sorry to hear that you are in so much pain!!! I know when I sleep at night and if I move a certain way my foot gets cramped. OMG it is so painful so I have to move it in a certain way and hold it until the pain subsides and the cramp subsides, so strange this phenomenon! I don't know what to tell you then. I am on magnesium supplements and it still occurs, so who knows?! Not much help eh?!
3 years agoThey have also been to Spain and Portugal, so we are paying close attention to their advice.
3 years agoThe unfair part is that Dodie is always drinking, and reminding me to drink, but often I don't. I do also get cramps at times. My usual reaction to writhe around and moan. Then it gets so bad I think I will have a heart attack, and I force myself to calm down. None of that seems to get me drinking more for next time!
3 years agoI am in Abbotsford and I converted 3 Bike Fridays, custom made touring bike & Brompton to electric assist. I had Side Saddles bike shop in Vancouver do the installs with the kits purchased at Grin Technology. I was fortunate to meet Justin in Shanghai in 2011 along with the owners of eZee bikes. The custom made I purchased on amazon.ca was a Bafang mid motor 500 Watts, plenty of power & it has a thumb control, just in case I need it. I haven't used it yet even on the hills I rode into Surrey. This motor is brilliant & I crank at 17 mph, fast. But LiGo batteries do not work with it. I have a battery with BMS and it works fine. Then the Brompton has the front wheel conversion with throttle too & torque sensor. And the 2 Bike Fridays which I tour overseas with all have front wheel conversions, one with a torque sensor and 1 with the basic PAS sensor. I have tested them all. Tuffy has the torque sensor which I set to basic PAS mode as I don't like working hard when I pedal due to my knee issue. Anyhow I pulled a 45 lb Burley Travoy trailer behind me using the 5 LiGo batteries and had 4 extra LiGo's & a spare 36V 15Amp battery as well. I managed 30 miles uphill for about 2 miles on level 6 while the whole ride was on level 3. I think it has well over 9 levels on the cycle analyst. The info on the CA3 is a bit of an overkill!!! Anyhow I disregard the panel & just ride. I made it home with a bit of power left. The one Bike Friday has a eZee 1000Watt front conversion motor which I had back in 2008 but it was compatible with the CA3 so I use it for commuting around town & it has the basic PAS sensor as well. The only problem with travelling with this bike is the front wheel isn't that easy to take off which is fine. So I use a cut up box in a big bag with wheels to get it to airport. Here is a link to my article I wrote for CGOAB: https://ebikes.topicwise.com/doc/?o=1mr&doc_id=22990&v=Ep
3 years agoNo, I think he was just a farmer. The plaque beside references the mayor that supported the trail, and I thought the statue was that guy, until I read more carefully.
3 years agoYes, no matter how many times we ride it, we still enjoy it.
3 years agoOK, I'm going to leave the big hell in there!
3 years agoKen and Judy! (We met up with them in Portland prior to their trip to Thailand)
3 years agoHi, I had leg cramps in Europe and I didn't eat or drink enough and it was late and I missed lunch. I found that if you drink a bottle of gatorade (has sodium) it helped my legs from cramps after that. Also I take magnesium supplements now but for another reason. But yes, you must make sure you keep hydrated, after that I kept drinking whether I needed it or not. Lots of juices helped too.
3 years agoI'm glad somebody made him something to keep his head warm.
3 years agoI believe he was the mayor too? Nice toque, by the way!
3 years agoOne of our absolute favourites!!!
3 years ago
Hi Ellen, I read the CGOAB article. Your bikes all look so clean and nice!
3 years agoI noticed in one case you basically disabled torque sensing and made it into just PAS. I see how one could do that, like in this Youtube with Justin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8caNICjbwU&t=51s at 2:34 of the 7:22 minute video. But Justin is also showing that you can control how fast the torque assist kicks in. Maybe better to adjust that than to disable torque assist?
It was worrying to read that in one installation the LiGos turned off when the assist level was changed. Did you ever learn why that happened? Are Ligo's in the habit of just turning off?
Finally, did you get much experience with carrying the 5 LiGo's on airplanes? Did you ever get a problem about them from Security?
Finally, from Dodie, what were the cases where LiGo was not compatible with the rest of the system? Was it a fundamental or a fixable-adjustable problem?