ebikes and headwinds

[PCeBiker]

How much did the Moto X tires increase your range? I'm expecting maybe a mile or two from my normal 40mi. if that

I don't know.
I test rode my e-bike for ½ hr when it arrived then swapped out the tires.

 

[il Munduato]

Rode my Al Grounder' today in a 15mph sustained head wind for 23.5 miles and compared to the nobby'r Johnny Watt tires on a similar ride.. I returned with 1,356,278 more electrons left in the battery.
ymmv

 

[DDBB]

That's a shame because all those extra electrons weigh a lot and slowed you down

 

[il Munduato]

I wondered why I struggled to get the bike on the rack afterwards.

 

[Kayakguy]

I did the same thing on my Voltbike Outback,..

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I did it for efficiency to increase my range.



My hub drive will plow into a 12 mph headwind at 20 mph but I get less than half the range from my battery.

Tire efficiency doesn't amount to much when I'm "breaking wind", but its almost a free ride back home.

I break wind often, but I don't find that it adds anything to forward propulsion. But it does cause people riding behind me to faint.

 

[Grueso]

Rode my Al Grounder' today in a 15mph sustained head wind for 23.5 miles and compared to the nobby'r Johnny Watt tires on a similar ride.. I returned with 1,356,278 more electrons left in the battery.
ymmv

That's a quarter of a picocoulomb. It's not nothing, it's a quarter of a whole Volt on a picofarad....