Equipment

Preparation & Equipment

Anyone can ride a bike. Gery and Baudouin wanted to design and prepare a bike accessible to all, young and old, abled or disabled, sportive and amateur. Everyone can ride a long distance run.

The challenge was to be able to visit a maximum of projects while staying autonomous from fossil fuels. We decided to select an eBike, powered by Solar energy.

Thanks to very precious advises from Raf Van Hulle - 3 times winner of the sun trip race from Lyon (FR) to Canton (Guangzhou China) - and fruitful collaboration with experienced bike preparer "het Fiestlab" (Leuven, BE), and bike component experts "ebikes.ca" (Vancouver, CA), we built a sturdy, powerful, yet long-range e-tandem

Main Specs

Base: Pino All-Round model type (@hasebike.com)

Motor: High Speed rearwheel 250W-2000W motor (@crystalyte-europe.com)

Batteries: 3x14Ah-48V eZee batteries (@ebikes.ca)

Trailer: homemade designed low loader single wheel trailer (@fietslab.be)

Solar pannels: high end 2x 207Wp PV pannels made with Sunpower Gen 3 cells (@soltech.be)

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Carbon Sources & Sinks

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