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Old 03-13-2008, 03:12 PM
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Default Re: Riding in the hood.

Well I took off on my new electro po boy chopper just now. It was fun but not as much fun as the t'ville chopper. I need some exercise so the po boy chopper will be good for the bike trail. There is enough power to get me there and to cruise but still enough energy expended to make it worthwhile as exercise. It is much much more stable with the trailer instead of the batteries on the bike. It seems to do about eight to ten miles per hour on the flat. downhill coasting at about 15 mph. Got those batteries pushing it. Does about five to six uphill with me pedaling like heck.

there is a big hill between me and the trail. The others are pretty easy to navigate I just run out of breath. I did two miles on the batteries and they were still almost full charge. The four miles should be easy for them. I am using the 350 watt motor so it performs pretty darn good, but uses more energy. One of the 250 watts would do almost as well and use less energy but I'm not too worried about it at the moment.

I need another errand so I can crank the t'ville up.
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