Keeping the battery charged while ebike touring / bikepacking
By far the most common question I get asked when cycle touring by bike is how I keep the battery charged. Most people assume it's hard to do so unless you stop in a hotel or B&B every night. But in fact I've gone as long as 8 days without an overnight stay with a roof over my head so here I talk about some of the other places you can recharge. I also talk about what sort of range you can expect on an e-bike in actual practise - I regularly get over 100km per battery but some conditions will knock that down to 80km.
The video is recorded on Skye, about 9 days into my month long bikepacking tour of the islands and highlands, see the channel for lots of videos from that tour.
When this video had over 20,000 views I recorded an additional video covering what I had learned since including the initial se of custom assist modes to greatly extend battery range. You can view that video at • Extend eBike touring range with batteries,...
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