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07-17-09, 02:03 PM
it was a nice evening after work, i was not as tired as usual, daylight was still bright and shinny, so i felt adventurous and went into the deep forest of the parks, rode through some unmapped woods along the routes i usually take, hoping to find a new short cut ;)
as i rode along those off road areas everything was neat and cool, i got to know a lot of places and not so useful short cuts i did not know about.
so after a few hours of riding the sun started to set, and i quickly went to the nearest civilization, it's not as easy as you think, when you are trapped between high hills & cliffs in a mini forest :eek:
So after a while i finally found a path back to a human habited route, and proceeded to track down the nearest major intersection / avenue road to get my bearings back.
By the way, GPS TomTom maps, and google maps kinda sucks when you are stuck in middle of a Forest :notamused:
at least they served as a guide to kinda get my bearings, but it was not detailed enough / can't zoom in down enough to see if a path is do-able or not. That's sorta how i ended way up in a cliff :roflmao2:
Thinking hey that's the quickest way to this civilized road... NOT! a chance, LOL :lol:
Anyways so after all that i rode home with 2 bars of battery left. No long after half way home the battery completely died out after i got lazy and just pushed the throttle.... (i shouldn't have done that), that chew away the 2 bars quickly going up a steep hill.
So after that the bike became a very heavy brick, or so i though :p i just had to drop a couple of gears, and everything was riding normally again without any drag. i was biking at 20Km/h with the completely dead battery.
Dumb me, i forgot the bike can regen even when not going down hill, LOL :lol: so i lost about 10 Km of good charging time :rolleyes: ... so as soon as i recall about the regen, i just flip the switch to G1, and continued riding, effectively after a few Km later i got 1 bar back.
Unfortunately G2, G3, and G4 makes the bike totally and nearly unbikeable when carrying a dead weight.
Good news is if you have a decent down hill, quickly change to G3, and you can quickly recharge 1 full bar, by going a long down hill on G3, G4 is just too slow for conform, but if you don't mind going at like walking speed on a downhill, then by all means use G4.
G4 should probably get you bar+1/2 if the hill is long enough.
Anyways overall it was very satisfactory, running out of battery is not Doom & Gloom as some people claims it to be.
Translation Regen really works when you need it the most :thumb:
After i get a bar of energy back, i saved every bit of it for the next uphill battle, instead of wasting it on normal stuff :D
as i rode along those off road areas everything was neat and cool, i got to know a lot of places and not so useful short cuts i did not know about.
so after a few hours of riding the sun started to set, and i quickly went to the nearest civilization, it's not as easy as you think, when you are trapped between high hills & cliffs in a mini forest :eek:
So after a while i finally found a path back to a human habited route, and proceeded to track down the nearest major intersection / avenue road to get my bearings back.
By the way, GPS TomTom maps, and google maps kinda sucks when you are stuck in middle of a Forest :notamused:
at least they served as a guide to kinda get my bearings, but it was not detailed enough / can't zoom in down enough to see if a path is do-able or not. That's sorta how i ended way up in a cliff :roflmao2:
Thinking hey that's the quickest way to this civilized road... NOT! a chance, LOL :lol:
Anyways so after all that i rode home with 2 bars of battery left. No long after half way home the battery completely died out after i got lazy and just pushed the throttle.... (i shouldn't have done that), that chew away the 2 bars quickly going up a steep hill.
So after that the bike became a very heavy brick, or so i though :p i just had to drop a couple of gears, and everything was riding normally again without any drag. i was biking at 20Km/h with the completely dead battery.
Dumb me, i forgot the bike can regen even when not going down hill, LOL :lol: so i lost about 10 Km of good charging time :rolleyes: ... so as soon as i recall about the regen, i just flip the switch to G1, and continued riding, effectively after a few Km later i got 1 bar back.
Unfortunately G2, G3, and G4 makes the bike totally and nearly unbikeable when carrying a dead weight.
Good news is if you have a decent down hill, quickly change to G3, and you can quickly recharge 1 full bar, by going a long down hill on G3, G4 is just too slow for conform, but if you don't mind going at like walking speed on a downhill, then by all means use G4.
G4 should probably get you bar+1/2 if the hill is long enough.
Anyways overall it was very satisfactory, running out of battery is not Doom & Gloom as some people claims it to be.
Translation Regen really works when you need it the most :thumb:
After i get a bar of energy back, i saved every bit of it for the next uphill battle, instead of wasting it on normal stuff :D