#eBikes

[thesolarpunkworkshop]

Day 5 or 6 of working on the solar bike. The main bike is effectivaly finished. Decided to go lightweight on everything and it was definantly the way to go. On the back is a 24qt milk crate big enough to hold another few bike batteries. That has a thin as possible sheet of hobby plywood above it that is ziptied to the 50w flexible solar panel. And mounted to the milkcrate with hobby screws. The panel recharges the bike through a mppt step up charge controller. The front panel charges just a simple 5v battery pack for my phone. All in all, I think it turned out well.

[reasonsforhope]

"A Ghanaian-English entrepreneur has designed an electric bike from the ground up that’s transforming short-range transportation in her home country, proving that problem-solving in Africa can be done in Africa, by Africans.

[Valerie Labi's] company, Wahu!, assembles each bike by hand, and they can travel up to 80 miles [128 kilometers] on a single charge. This means that a delivery rider for Glovo or Bolt can comfortably cover a whole day’s work without refueling.

Anyone who’s visited Accra, Ghana, in the dry season will remember the incredibly poor air quality. Poor roads mean that cars are stuck in second and third gears, and old cars traveling in second and third gears mean plenty of extra car exhaust.

Poor roads also mean exposed dirt, and exposed dirt means fine-grained dust. Combined with a lack of rain, the smog, dust, and car exhaust make the air in parts of the capital unfit for human health.

Wahu! bikes help alleviate all three of these problems, and despite her English nativity [Note: Super weird and unclear way to phrase it?] and education, the bikes were designed and manufactured in Spintex, Accra.

“By introducing electric bikes into Ghana’s transportation ecosystem, we’re not only providing a greener alternative but also offering speed and convenience,” Labi told The Mirror. “Our bikes are a testament to how service delivery can be seamlessly merged with environmental conservation.”

Valerie Labi is a true inspiration, and besides her transportation company, she got her start in the Ghanaian economy in sanitation. She holds a chieftaincy title as Gundugu Sabtanaa, given to her by the previous Chief of the Dagbon traditional area in the Northern Region of Ghana. She has three children, holds a double major in Economics and Sustainability from two separate universities, and has visited 59 countries.

Getting her start in Northern Ghana, she founded the social enterprise Sama Sama, a mobile toilet and sanitation company that now boasts 300,000 clients.

During her travels around the small, densely populated country, she also recognized that transportation was not only a problem, but offered real potential for eco-friendly solutions.

“It took us two years to effectively design a bike that we thought was fit for the African road, then we connected with Jumia and other delivery companies to get started,” she told The Mirror. “Currently, I have over 100 bikes in circulation and we give the bikes on a ‘work and pay’ basis directly to delivery riders.”

According to Labi, each driver pays about 300 Ghana cedis, or about $24.00, per week to use the bike, which can travel 24 miles per hour, and hold over 300 pounds of weight. The fat tires are supported by double-crown front/double-spring rear suspension.

The bikes are also guaranteed by the company’s proprietary anti-theft system of trackers. Only a single bike has been stolen, and it was quickly located and returned to the owner."

-via Good News Network, January 24, 2024

[mlembug]

the pedals on the bike I own can fold, wow, I didn't know this for almost one year of owning this bike, the manual for the bike didn't say this either, and the only info on how to do it on youtube is one person who covers the pedal with his arm while folding it

so anyway here's a very unscientific instruction on how to fold "VP Components VP-F55 Folding Bike Pedals", posting it in hopes it gets into google's search terms

[goodluckclove]

I'm testing out my new e-bike (XP lite from Lectric Bikes), upgrading from a used Pedego Comfort Cruiser. The bike online said it could hit 20-21mph, and I didn't pay much attention to that. I've been riding e-bikes since they really hit the mass market in my area around 2013, and I'm used to the way companies will sort of bend the truth. Like YEAH it'll hit that, assuming you weight nothing and only ride downhill. Still I figured it'd probably average about how fast I could go on my old bike, maybe slightly better.

Uh turns out Lectric doesn't fuck around. It hits 20 EASY and I am fucking esctatic. It goes up hills at the the same speed my old bike maxed out at on flat ground what the fuck. I'm glad I trusted my instinct to take a long bike path that'll be mostly empty, because I cannot stop laughing like a nefarious goblin. SPEED.

Anyways I'm gonna bike more and hope I don't lose track of time and end up in Eugene oops.

[coulsonlives]

[crownmoto]

[wanderingmonkbikes]

More new stikers

[electricbikesupply]

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[slowlyhappybird]

Anyone else ride e-bikes on here and haul with your jeep?

[possumcollege]

What if girls E-bike to BOYS?

What if boys E-bike to DRUGS?

What if Communism gets an E-bike?

What if E-bikes make our children too fast to receive Christ's love?

[thesolarpunkworkshop]

Hooked up the solar bike to the solar trailer I built forever ago. Turned out pretty nice, the only thing I think I need to do at this point is add a few peices of reinforcing cordage to keep jank down and throw more batteries in the trailer. Have 260 watts of solar output on this, now I need to ride it across the state over several days to REALLY test this.

[yourfavvvintj]

ebiking is actually a very enlightening experience. you should try it. 10/10 would recommend

[broke-cowgirl]

omg omg ebikes are so cool, just got one and its so fast and lovely, i can go wherever i want! and a 500WH battery?! crazy range! and its a middrive, its all i ever wanted!

[tycentre]

Mini cargo ebikes are widely accepted by young people.

[coulsonlives]

This bike is so bad! You think, maybe it can't be that bad, but then it just gets worse and worse. 😂

[stevenjones5]

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