![]() ![]() A few months before getting his first e-bike, he bought a Goal Zero Yeti 1400 power station to power his refrigerator and other necessities during power outages that sometimes plague his area. Richard’s path towards solar charging his e-bike began sooner than he had realized. Then you can get a workout on the ride home. You can bring your battery and charger into your workplace with you and charge it while you work. The beauty of using an e-bike to commute instead of a manual bike is that you can use more of the battery to get you TO work, so you don’t arrive sweaty and tired. If I lived in a city I would find some way to use the Rad to commute to work. One of the best riding options is the popular Rails-to-Trails parks that have sprung up. We’re a two-Rad family!įor me the Rad Mini is an exercise bike with benefits! I don’t have a safe bike trail at my rural farm, so I haul the bike in my SUV to various places to ride it. I just bought a Rad Mini Step-Thru for my youngest daughter. So I took the plunge and haven’t looked back. Then I saw what the Spandex crowd was spending on their fancy road bikes ($6K-10K) and I suddenly felt better. My Schwinn Varsity probably cost $350 or $400 back in the day (1971?). Whoa Nellie! I’d never spent that much on a bicycle before. When I saw the $1,500 price tag of the bike I about fainted. He eventually landed on a RadMini electric bicycle from Rad Power Bikes. ![]() He has long wanted an electric car, but hasn’t yet found one in his price range.Īfter discovering electric bicycles on Facebook, he began researching them more intensively and found that they could solve his need for electric transport, plus add some beneficial exercise. Richard actually got into the project due to his previous interest in electric vehicles. But what if instead of paying for that electricity, you could capture it from the sun instead? That’s exactly what Richard Drumm did when he built a simple DIY electric bicycle solar-charging setup. Most can easily travel 100 miles (160 km) on around $1 of electricity. As far as electric vehicles go, electric bicycles are famously energy-efficient.
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