My Memorial Day challenging little e-Bike adventure to see my Folks

Have you ever really needed to get out and break away for a little bit and get some fresh air with all the heavy stuff and bad news in our modern day? I was looking forward to testing one of my new eBike projects with a big brand new battery and test the range a bit.

I'm all pumped up and ready to ride and enjoy the time and not long after I started, the power cuts out. I'm peddling back home. I get back, hoping it was a bad connection or something else I can remedy. I head out yet a second time. This time even sooner as I hadn't even made it off my street. I had to come up with a Plan B. That was the "pink bike". The Schwinn Drifter 26" Cruiser that I had converted to an electric bike.

The brakes aren't great and it's running a modest 250 watt 36 volt front wheel drive hub that I bought second hand and used Ninebot batteries I put into a 3 pack cluster. This thing will do up to 24 miles per hour and run for miles and barely make a dent in the battery unlike my new stuff.

I rode it to my folks house in La Palma the back way so some of my Kennedy High School folks will recognize the view. It turns out that I forgot to hit record on the camera as I hit the road. It was nice to see my folks for a little bit without the dog announcing my arrival with the sound of my Tundra pulling up into the driveway. I had the audio track I added to this little project in my head so I added it on the ride home. Childhood friends who grew up on my street might enjoy this little movie.

My budget passionate pink electric bike got me there in good time and back in style when my other new 20 inch twin engined let me down. Turns out that it was a defective battery which will end up back at the Amazon seller's shipping table for a refund and I've already ordered a replacement from another seller who sold me a fine big blue 36 v 20 Ah battery which I'm quite happy with. I'll do some speed tests on the twin engined Kent Torpedo 20" conversion soon as see how she does. Once I can determine how much range I really have, I'll risk a Coyote Creek bike trail ride to the beach on one of my electric contraptions. To be continued. ~ Flying39 / Brewing39 William