Another fine day - how long can you keep going?

[Jonah]

Turning into a fantastic week for cycling. After yesterday's foray to the vineyards (Eastcott) tried out a slightly longer day ride route for our prospective bike higherers. To Bude, returning via Tamar Lakes. Using 'eco' assist on the Sahel Compact for most of the time and increasing to 'sport' on the difficult bits (lots of those in Devon & Cornwall), managed the 36 miles on about two thirds of the standard 11ah battery.

You can see the route at Bike Higher Day Ride 5 - B - Google Maps

Here are a couple of pictures:

 

[dmcgoldrick]

Turning into a fantastic week for cycling. After yesterday's foray to the vineyards (Eastcott) tried out a slightly longer day ride route for our prospective bike higherers. To Bude, returning via Tamar Lakes. Using 'eco' assist on the Sahel Compact for most of the time and increasing to 'sport' on the difficult bits (lots of those in Devon & Cornwall), managed the 36 miles on about two thirds of the standard 11ah battery.

You can see the route at Bike Higher Day Ride 5 - B - Google Maps

Here are a couple of pictures:
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good info on battery usage......looks to be just over 7 watt-hour per mile which seems a little on the low side if there were plenty of hills to climb.... is this because of the small wheels ?

this week, did 35 mile ride with 2000 ft climb and descent on storck raddar ......battery flat at 32 mile.....get about 10% regen on such a ride so watt-hour per mile approx 10, using 60% assist level for about 80% of journey and full level for 20% ........

 

[Jonah]

good info on battery usage......looks to be just over 7 watt-hour per mile which seems a little on the low side if there were plenty of hills to climb.... is this because of the small wheels ? ........

Not the small wheels, just the effort I put in with the low level of assist. There are no published figures for the assistance levels that I know of. I would guess something like Eco 50%, Sport 75%, Power 100%

If you set the biking profile to sport (available with the 2013 software using the dealer service unit) in my experience these are raised to something more like 75% 100% 150%.

In my experience over about 2000 miles of hilly riding, you can get 15-20 miles range using 150% and 50 miles plus using 50%. This all seems to make sense to me. There is of course a massive difference to how you feel at the end of the ride!

 

[dmcgoldrick]

Not the small wheels, just the effort I put in with the low level of assist. There are no published figures for the assistance levels that I know of. I would guess something like Eco 50%, Sport 75%, Power 100%

If you set the biking profile to sport (available with the 2013 software using the dealer service unit) in my experience these are raised to something more like 75% 100% 150%.

In my experience over about 2000 miles of hilly riding, you can get 15-20 miles range using 150% and 50 miles plus using 50%. This all seems to make sense to me. There is of course a massive difference to how you feel at the end of the ride!

yes that makes sense....i guess you are a very strong cyclist and possibly a good few years younger than many of us with ebikes ......
regards