craneplaneguy
10 kW
Here's a pic of a multi use trail right behind my place, a 1/4 mile away anyway. Horses, dirt bikes, ATV's, it's all good up there. It runs for about 35 or 40 miles clear around the mountain range, with lots of up and down, average altitude about 6800'. Traditional mountain bikers, for some reason, are not seen up here, they hang out in town at the trail system that is more or less groomed, with most obstacles removed.
The Bullet picked its way up to the summit at 8'000, and on the way I was thinking "can these tires handle this (8 lbs)?" So far so good. I was in first gear, standing on the pedals, and going about 4 to 6 mph. a real watt sucker in other words, still, the BBHD never got warm, impressive. My next worry was the bike frame, again, so far so good. This is the trail that was 14 miles total round trip with about 2500' of gain, and I did it easily on my 11.5 AH battery, arriving back home with a bit over 50 v. showing on the meter.
My goal, just to show that these e bikes aren't toys, is to ride the entire trail clear around the range. On a good dirt bike it's a several hour ride, 15 or 20 streams to ford, and lots of vert as the trail follows the undulating ridge canyons. My friends who ride dirt bikes will be impressed, as in blown away My friends who ride regular mountain bikes on the regular mountain bike trails will be.....blown away. Hell, I'LL be blown away. I'll be wore out but hopefully in one piece, me and the bike. I'll be taking all three 11.5AH batteries, screw it, better overkill it then underkill it.
The Bullet picked its way up to the summit at 8'000, and on the way I was thinking "can these tires handle this (8 lbs)?" So far so good. I was in first gear, standing on the pedals, and going about 4 to 6 mph. a real watt sucker in other words, still, the BBHD never got warm, impressive. My next worry was the bike frame, again, so far so good. This is the trail that was 14 miles total round trip with about 2500' of gain, and I did it easily on my 11.5 AH battery, arriving back home with a bit over 50 v. showing on the meter.
My goal, just to show that these e bikes aren't toys, is to ride the entire trail clear around the range. On a good dirt bike it's a several hour ride, 15 or 20 streams to ford, and lots of vert as the trail follows the undulating ridge canyons. My friends who ride dirt bikes will be impressed, as in blown away My friends who ride regular mountain bikes on the regular mountain bike trails will be.....blown away. Hell, I'LL be blown away. I'll be wore out but hopefully in one piece, me and the bike. I'll be taking all three 11.5AH batteries, screw it, better overkill it then underkill it.