Thanks guys & special thanks to Adrian_SM for keeping the thread updated for us!
Maurice felt fine today, I'm fine too though my knees are not happy. I did 20 km of ebiking today and consider it my 'cool down' lap for yesterday
After mapmytracks stopped working, we lost what we were hoping would be a good source of stats on distance, average speed, and elevation. Not the end of the world though, we re-mapped the route on google maps today and you can see it varied slightly from our orignal plan:
The bad news is that it only ended up to be 288 km! 12 km short of our goal to beat
Kingfish's 300 km 1 day ride. :? However, we did exceed his
longest ride on a single charge (266 km).
This shows the section of our ride that was especially hilly and challenging between Kiama and Bowral:
Here's the short stats:
Distance: 288 km (179 mi)
Total ascent: 3,538 meters (11,609 feet)
Total time: 16 hours, 12-13hrs in the saddle.
Battery usage: 1865 Wh (Abraham), 2088 Wh (Maurice)
Rate of energy use: 6.47 Wh/km (Abraham), 7.25 Wh/km (Maurice)
I suspect that Maurice's higher energy use was because he led most of the way, giving me some benefit of riding in his draft. If we had worked harder to sustain higher average speeds and I had drafted even more tightly on his back wheel, I think the differences in battery consumption would have been far greater.
I've pulled out a few photos taken from the GoPro before it conked out. I had hoped it would get a time lapse of the whole trip but it died after just a few hours. Next trip I will bring a bike GPS and DC-DC converter to keep phones, cameras and gadgets all charged while riding!
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We really enjoyed the scenery with beaches, cliffs, rain forests, gumtree bushland, rolling farmland like an english country side. There were some fantastic roads too with nice descents where we could hold 50 km/h and more for quite a while.
The bikes performed well neither of us got a single puncture rolling on Schwalbe Marathon Plus tyres, despite riding across tons of glass and debris on highway road shoulders and breakdown lanes.
In terms of our original energy budget of 2 kWh, I was a bit under and Maurice was a bit over. Had we gone the full 300 km or any faster then we did, 2 kWh would not have been enough. I actually convinced Maurice that we should take a 5th battery each as backup, bringing the total up to 2.5 kWh and we almost didn't end up using them but in the last 10 km with our voltage dropping and speed coming down correspondingly, we made the swap and sped through the last few km.
I'll try to post a bit more photos and footage if I can tomorrow.
Cheers, Abraham
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