March 22, 20206 yr With "only essential" travelling now mandated, I can't see our bikes, used purely for leisure, going out for some months. What is the best "lay-up" practice for my wife's bike, that one is an e-bike? I seem to recall talk of taking the battery SoC down to about 60% of its normal range?
March 22, 20206 yr With only "essential" travelling mandated, I can't see our bikes, used purely leisure, going out for some months. What is the best "lay-up" practice for my wife's bike, that one is an e-bike? I seem to recall talk of taking the battery SoC down to about 60% of its normal range? Well excersise is totally allowed and as I live y the sea and south downs I can and will cycle whilst remaining socially distant very easily. Maybe in busy towns its different That said what bike does your wife have? Some. Like Bosch ones have a hibernation mode on their batteries.
March 22, 20206 yr Author A Kalkhoff Agattu 8, I believe a 2016 but purchased 2017. The battery does go into a sort of hibernation, if unused for a week, in appearing to be dead to the bike, until the on battery status red button is pushed, waking it up. Does that mode self protect the battery form high charge state strains etc?
March 22, 20206 yr Bosch recommend "For longer storage, a charge status of approx. 30 to 60% is recommended. " https://www.bosch-ebike.com/fileadmin/EBC/Service/Downloads/Akku_Guide/Akku_Guide_August_2019/Bosch-eBike-Battery-Guide-MY2019-EN.pdf?_=1535448290
March 22, 20206 yr Cycling has been recommended for exercise so no reason to but bikes into hibernation.
March 22, 20206 yr Cycling has been recommended for exercise so no reason to but bikes into hibernation. It all depends on where you cycle: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-51995092
March 22, 20206 yr Without being too miserable, here in Spain it is forbidden to go out for a walk or ride and that’s been so for 8 days now. I’m hugely frustrated as my conversion kit arrived and is now fitted and ready to go...thinking maybe I’ll use it to go collect groceries.
March 22, 20206 yr It all depends on where you cycle: [/quote There are plenty of other places apart from parks. ..thinking maybe I’ll use it to go collect groceries. There you go problem sorted, just take a longer route.
March 22, 20206 yr Smother liberally in antiseptic hand gel before putting in isolation, and keep a safe distance of 1–2m away...
March 22, 20206 yr Does that mode self protect the battery form high charge state strains etc? It doesn't, but if you wake it up each week two or three weeks running, the BMS will use a tiny bit of current during those weeks, taking the top edge off the charge. That's the only bit that can lose a real degree of battery life over a few months. .
March 22, 20206 yr These might help you in deciding where you can safely cycle: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51506729 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51999080
March 22, 20206 yr The current guidelines seem less stringent (and sensible?) than I had thought/expected. In particular, even self-isolation has an 'except exercise' clause. Cycling is clearly excellent exercise, and probably a bit better at keeping 2m than walking is. It is odd how everybody seems to go to the honeypots to exercise though. This may lead to much tougher rules than are necessary that rule out exercise even in more sensible places. (Much easier to say this from a county town than it might be for people living in London and other big cities; but I bet even there lots of the streets are almost empty of cars, bikes and pedestrians and fairly pleasant?)
March 22, 20206 yr every one has lost the plot 14000 ppl died today and 48 from controller virus. 14000 will also die every day on average in the uk anyway. when dead ppl are being pilled up at street corners for pick up to be burned to dust on mass ill stay inside watching the news gives you brain rot its all bs
March 22, 20206 yr 14000 ppl died today and 48 from controller virus. Keep 2m way from your controllers folks....
March 22, 20206 yr Social disatancing whay a load of crap, jst look at the masses in the supermarkets. And to day for instance Boxhill what a joke , the NT carr parks were rammo and cars abandoned on the roadsides.
March 22, 20206 yr i have a theory on bog roll bandits, why is every one buying them on mass? because they are so fkn stupid they can not compute wiping there own ass hole with out one and dont know how to do it.
March 23, 20206 yr It doesn't, but if you wake it up each week two or three weeks running, the BMS will use a tiny bit of current during those weeks, taking the top edge off the charge. That's the only bit that can lose a real degree of battery life over a few months. . sorry flecc, what do you mean by wake it up
March 23, 20206 yr every one has lost the plot 14000 ppl died today and 48 from controller virus. 14000 will also die every day on average in the uk anyway. when dead ppl are being pilled up at street corners for pick up to be burned to dust on mass ill stay inside watching the news gives you brain rot its all bs You obviously don't understand what is going on & your numbers are nonsense eg 14,000 x 365 = 5,110,000 deaths per year. There are not 5 million deaths per year. The real annual death rate is about 600,000. The issue isn't really the disease itself which is like a particularly nasty 'flu with even some young fit healthy people developing a serious pneumonia requiring ventilation on ICU & some dying. The big issue is that it's a new virus for humans & we have no vaccine or immunity so everybody is vulnerable. If only 1% of people who get COVID-19 need to be admitted to hospital then 1% of 65 million will completely overwhelm the NHS & the number who need to be admitted to hospital is likely many more than 1%. An average hospital in the UK has 500-600 beds with 15-20 ICU beds but imagine if every single day 20, 30, 40, 50 patients with severe pneumonia arrive & 5-10 of those require ventilation on ICU. Then think what happens after weeks or months of this. People still have heart attacks, appendicitis, need cancer treatment etc etc What's happening is absolutely terrifying & unprecedented. The only hope of coping is to try & slow down the rate of infection so that the NHS is not overwhelmed & to buy enough time for development of a vaccine. Unfortunately at the moment the number of cases is increasing exponentially & the only way of slowing spread is to stay in our homes as much as possible & restrict all contact with other people to a minimum.
March 23, 20206 yr An average hospital in the UK has 500-600 beds with 15-20 ICU beds but imagine if every single day 20, 30, 40, 50 patients with severe pneumonia arrive & 5-10 of those require ventilation on ICU. Then think what happens after weeks or months of this. People still have heart attacks, appendicitis, need cancer treatment etc etc some hospitals in London are already in emergency themselves. However much precaution we all take, until there is a vaccine that is added to our annual flu jab, which may be a year a two in the future, we can't really be expected to remain indoors all the time. We take risk whenever we are in the same room with other people or go in a shop or use a public facility. Compared to trains, bus, cars and normal bikes or even running / walking, e-bikes still give a better distance between users.
March 23, 20206 yr watching the news gives you brain rot its all bs Looks like some people have already got the brain rot.
March 23, 20206 yr very one has lost the plot 14000 ppl died today and 48 from controller virus. 14000 will also die every day on average in the uk anyway. when dead ppl are being pilled up at street corners for pick up to be burned to dust on mass ill stay inside watching the news gives you brain rot its all bs Please try and be sensible before you put such ridiculous figures on the site, it is actually 1,400 people in the uk who die each day not 14,000 and please dont watch the news ever as you quite obviously have severe brain rot already.
March 23, 20206 yr we can't really be expected to remain indoors all the time But we should be reasonably expected to have no part in this nonsense: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51999864 We are an extremely selfish country, witness the grab for food at the supermarkets, that didn't happen in Italy for example. Some of the ridiculous things I've heard are: "I dashed to the shops today to get some packs of loo rolls before all the idiots got them" "I went for a walk in the park / beach / mountains today and it was full of idiots going for a walk."
March 23, 20206 yr "I went for a walk in the park / beach / mountains today and it was full of idiots going for a walk." when did you see a queue of e-bikers? They don't compete with one another, they don't queue up for a chairlift. The most frequent group rides you see are members of the same family. The closest contact with strangers is at traffic lights where two bikes may be found in close approximity. It does not require many brain cells to keep yourself at a safe distance.
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