How will I go about making my solar bike? I do not have an electrically assisted bicycle, I know very little about capturing solar energy … Suddenly, the questions flow in all directions: for electrically assisted bikes: what type of motor? Hub motor or bottom bracket? Motor on the bike or on the wheel of […]
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I have the project to keep traces of this adventure, in the form of writings, drawings and images. Pictures of course, but I would also like to report films of this SunTrip 2017! Fix on the "film" The Landscapes that parade, the inhabitants of the villages crossed, and the soundscapes also. However, if I regularly
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Today I met Jean-Claude who is a physics teacher in Dijon. I asked him all the questions that had come to my mind on the previous days: How to calculate the energy consumed by the bike to determine the required surface of solar panels? How is solar energy regulated by nature so fluctuating? He enthusiastically
First question: How many solar panels will I need? Read More »
According to Wikipedia, an electric power-assisted bicycle (V.A.E.) is a bicycle equipped with an auxiliary electric motor and a rechargeable battery. Legal definition of a V.A.E. In France, a bicycle with electric assistance must conform to the European Directive EC2002/24 and the French standard NF R30-020 laying down the following general principles: The rated power
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This afternoon it was my "first time", my first try with an electric-assisted bike loaned by the gable-on-street cycle shop. It was a very informative outing for a novice like me, my impressions were contrasting: on the one hand, a great satisfaction to climb the coast of vises at an unusual speed, but on the
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In 2013, the first SunTrip had made me dream so much: 30 adventurers who had to join Kazakhstan by solar bike, it seemed so incredible, so exciting! Then there was the 2015 edition just as rich in adventures and lessons. The 2017 version of the SunTrip will be a “Tour” on a course certainly less
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