That wierd 9C noise has gone away for the last several days, so like an idiot, I am leaving it alone until it does it again (at which point maybe it will just explode or something instead).
Rode around yesterday a little, about 10 miles worth, but didn't take much note of any data; was just having fun mostly. Got a cheapie used fork for the new cargo bike design, and maybe some rear shocks if I don't end up able to use the Manitou fork for that.
Today I went for some more groceries and stuff that's on sale right now, and ended up with so much (around 80-85lbs) that I had to wear the backpack and use my "new" (but quite used) folding bag for the rack. Pardon the distorted colors, the pic was too dark to see the black bag so I had to process it:
I should have brougth the trailer, but I hadn't planned on getting that much. There was just a lot of clearance and other stuff I didnt' want to miss out on, which saved me a bunch of money I won't have to spend later on regular priced versions.
Whle riding I had the yellow vest (wadded up on the chair behind the white plastic in the first pic) wrapped around the bag to make me more visible, plus wearing another one (draped over the backpack as well as myself). Then the cargo pod was also full.
For cold stuff I couldn't fit into the insulated cargo pod, I wrapped in this metallized bubble-wrap saved from one of our live-plant deliveries at work. The empty bag that was on teh rack is at the far end of it in the pic.
The bag flattened, folded, and zipped into itself for easy storage, along with the wrap folded up (whcih only packs down half as well as the bag) and sitting on the cargo pod lid.\
I don't have full data becuase I noted it all down in the PDA, but even though I just charged it two days ago, and have not used it but for a couple of hours yesterday, plus half an hour today, it died between the time I took it off the bike and the time I sat down to type this up. So all the data including actual speed and mileage/etc. is lost. I noted down what I remember of it, but that's not a lot.
The first part of the trip was just the usual to-work trip, so I could get my schedule for the week (couldn't get it by phone because there were too many customers for them to have time to tell me anytime soon, and I had to go up that way to the store anyway). That only took around 1.2Ah, as I wasnt' in any hurry so I only went 15-17MPH instead of the usual 20, and I was pedalling a little, since it is kinda nice out and I didnt' have to worry about being sweaty when I get to work, etc. That shaved about 0.3Ah off the usual amount. Typical 2.2 miles.
From work to the store was also kinda toodling along slower than usual, and pedalling a little, and it took about 27Wh. Negligible regen of something like 0.01Ah / 0.5Wh. This is around a mile.
From the store to home I only pedalled to help startups because of the really heavy load, but the rest I did at normal 17-20MPH speeds with just the motor. This is about 3.5 miles. It was something like 2.9Ah, but I can't even remember the Wh, maybe around 90? Regen I recall about 0.02Ah and about 1.1Wh.
The only really bad part of the trip was the crossing of 35th Avenue, which apparently they're about to resurface. They have roughened it all up so much on both north and southbound sides that it is like riding over 2" gravel and rock for the bumpiness, with even deeper ruts here and there, except for not skidding in it. It wasn't too bad going *to* Fry's with only part of my load picked up, but it was horrible coming back from it with the rest of my shopping load now on the bike.
I seriously thought my shoulders and spine were going to be ripped off, with some of the bumps, and I was just creeping along trying to keep from breaking anything in the deep grooves and stuff, having waited until there was no traffic coming for quite a ways in order to do it slowly like this.
Just before the trip, I had also just aired the tires up again, from the ~50PSI they'd dropped to back up to around 55-60PSI, which is what I have to use to keep from squiggling around on the road with such heavy loads. That didn't help a bit with the roughness on that part of the road.
Rode around yesterday a little, about 10 miles worth, but didn't take much note of any data; was just having fun mostly. Got a cheapie used fork for the new cargo bike design, and maybe some rear shocks if I don't end up able to use the Manitou fork for that.
Today I went for some more groceries and stuff that's on sale right now, and ended up with so much (around 80-85lbs) that I had to wear the backpack and use my "new" (but quite used) folding bag for the rack. Pardon the distorted colors, the pic was too dark to see the black bag so I had to process it:
I should have brougth the trailer, but I hadn't planned on getting that much. There was just a lot of clearance and other stuff I didnt' want to miss out on, which saved me a bunch of money I won't have to spend later on regular priced versions.
Whle riding I had the yellow vest (wadded up on the chair behind the white plastic in the first pic) wrapped around the bag to make me more visible, plus wearing another one (draped over the backpack as well as myself). Then the cargo pod was also full.
For cold stuff I couldn't fit into the insulated cargo pod, I wrapped in this metallized bubble-wrap saved from one of our live-plant deliveries at work. The empty bag that was on teh rack is at the far end of it in the pic.
The bag flattened, folded, and zipped into itself for easy storage, along with the wrap folded up (whcih only packs down half as well as the bag) and sitting on the cargo pod lid.\
I don't have full data becuase I noted it all down in the PDA, but even though I just charged it two days ago, and have not used it but for a couple of hours yesterday, plus half an hour today, it died between the time I took it off the bike and the time I sat down to type this up. So all the data including actual speed and mileage/etc. is lost. I noted down what I remember of it, but that's not a lot.
The first part of the trip was just the usual to-work trip, so I could get my schedule for the week (couldn't get it by phone because there were too many customers for them to have time to tell me anytime soon, and I had to go up that way to the store anyway). That only took around 1.2Ah, as I wasnt' in any hurry so I only went 15-17MPH instead of the usual 20, and I was pedalling a little, since it is kinda nice out and I didnt' have to worry about being sweaty when I get to work, etc. That shaved about 0.3Ah off the usual amount. Typical 2.2 miles.
From work to the store was also kinda toodling along slower than usual, and pedalling a little, and it took about 27Wh. Negligible regen of something like 0.01Ah / 0.5Wh. This is around a mile.
From the store to home I only pedalled to help startups because of the really heavy load, but the rest I did at normal 17-20MPH speeds with just the motor. This is about 3.5 miles. It was something like 2.9Ah, but I can't even remember the Wh, maybe around 90? Regen I recall about 0.02Ah and about 1.1Wh.
The only really bad part of the trip was the crossing of 35th Avenue, which apparently they're about to resurface. They have roughened it all up so much on both north and southbound sides that it is like riding over 2" gravel and rock for the bumpiness, with even deeper ruts here and there, except for not skidding in it. It wasn't too bad going *to* Fry's with only part of my load picked up, but it was horrible coming back from it with the rest of my shopping load now on the bike.
I seriously thought my shoulders and spine were going to be ripped off, with some of the bumps, and I was just creeping along trying to keep from breaking anything in the deep grooves and stuff, having waited until there was no traffic coming for quite a ways in order to do it slowly like this.
Just before the trip, I had also just aired the tires up again, from the ~50PSI they'd dropped to back up to around 55-60PSI, which is what I have to use to keep from squiggling around on the road with such heavy loads. That didn't help a bit with the roughness on that part of the road.