Thanks Flecc, I feel like a fully paid up member of the electric bike community now. The learning curve starts here!
My commute is a twelve mile round trip, six miles of mostly downhill into the city centre, and conversely a groan-inducing six miles of mostly uphill on the return home. I won't use up much charge on the way in (hopefully) but plenty on the way back. Should I recharge at both ends of the journey for optimum battery life do you think? I guess it's a bit trial and error to begin with, but I would like to preserve battery life as long as possible. Seeing as it's a Li-ion I won't be able to do a re-cell on it later on. Or maybe when it's gone completely I could rip the innards out and replace with NiMh, but that is a way off yet I trust.
Hopefully this will be a rather more pleasant commute than by bus, which seems to get scummier by the day. Unbelievably last year the underground car park below my place of work installed parking meters for bikes/motorbikes too, however they've yet to be activated after the uproar it caused.
On a final note, for now, I recently subscribed to the electronic edition of A to B: it's a good read.
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