{"id":187,"date":"2021-01-11T22:39:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/?p=187"},"modified":"2021-01-11T22:39:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T05:39:06","slug":"e-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/2021\/01\/11\/e-bike\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During (or possibly before) the pandemic, fren Mario got an e-bike. A long time ago in a land far away (there lived a pineapple princess tiki), I considered e-bikes as a commuting option to UBC given the tedious uphill climb on 8th near Alma. I test rode one, liked it but didn&#8217;t think much of it.<\/p>\n<p>Come 2020, Mario introduced me to his e-bike modified with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebikes.ca\">Grin Technologies<\/a> kit. A variety of motivations intersected to push me over the edge and electrify my bike as well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The coronavirus pandemic (I&#8217;d try avoid public transit whenever I could)<\/li>\n<li>A better way to get around than cars\n<ul>\n<li>Economical<\/li>\n<li>Healthier<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>An existing desire to do tech-y engineering-y things that moved away from my background of being the &#8216;sensing&#8217; guy to &#8216;doing&#8217; things\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;d taken a couple of woodworking classes at Yaletown roundhouse<\/li>\n<li>Built raised planter beds w\/ Iva<\/li>\n<li>Coming up on year 3 of ceramics at UBC<\/li>\n<li>Joined the hackspace to regain access to the laser cutter<\/li>\n<li>Learnt sewing and welding at VHS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Due to the aforementioned motivations, I got a Grin ready to roll kit with the eZee motor that was a lot of fun to put together and use. The motor controller, the motor w\/ laced wheel, the battery and the cycle analyst were all modular components that I could upgrade and replace at any time. So far, the kit has served me extremely well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/files\/2021\/01\/E-Bike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-189\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/files\/2021\/01\/E-Bike-1024x754.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"687\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/files\/2021\/01\/E-Bike-1024x754.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/files\/2021\/01\/E-Bike-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/files\/2021\/01\/E-Bike-1536x1131.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/files\/2021\/01\/E-Bike-800x589.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/files\/2021\/01\/E-Bike.jpg 1651w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a>The more I learn about grin, the more excited I am that an organization at the very cutting edge of electric personal mobility is based in Vancouver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During (or possibly before) the pandemic, fren Mario got an e-bike. A long time ago in a land far away (there lived a pineapple princess tiki), I considered e-bikes as a commuting option to UBC given the tedious uphill climb on 8th near Alma. I test rode one, liked it but didn&#8217;t think much of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37996,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[801877],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37996"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/conphyusedgrad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}