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eBikes / Just completed 10,000km on electric vehicles.
« on: April 17, 2014, 04:25:13 pm »
These were the modes of transport:
#1 with over 6000km is my first electric. It's a bicycle. Does 65km/h, 0-50km/h in about 3 seconds, has a range of 50km, weighs 38kg and is loads of fun offroad! Here's a video:
#2 with a tad under 4000km is my most recent electric. I call it a bicycle because I don't want to have to try and license it and it can be pedalled. In reality it's a motorcycle. It does 85km/h, gets to 60 in 3 seconds and can do 100km on a charge! The downside is that it weighs 50kg, so it's heavy to pedal. In reality I'm probably not saving much electricity by pedalling, but at least I still get a workout. Here's a rather long video:
#3 is my souped up bladez electric scooter with about 100km on the clock. It's designed to run on 24v 450w of power, but I chucked some lithium in and boosted the volts to 38.4, and power to 3500w. This is the most dangerous vehicle I've ever been on. 40km/h comes up stupidly fast if you can hang on, and on 10 inch wheels is ludicrous. Also a crash on one of these sends you head first to the ground. I won't let people ride this without putting my crash helmet on first.
And that's it. Using electricity for power is even cheaper than pedalling if you consider the cost of food. The smaller bike runs on 1c/km in electricity, the big bike and scooter use double that! I've figured that I save about R2.50 using these toys instead of my already cheap econobox car, and I get some exercise, no traffic, help the environment and have waaaay more fun than I would in a car. In total I did spend R50k on all 3, the big bike was a luxury, not an economy choice. Without it the others would have long paid for themselves, but in the next 8000 km all three would have paid for themselves! The only thing I wonder is why more people don't build their own...
Oh and to keep it somewhat financial, I'll do the next 8000km in just over two years, so considering when I built the first bike, these run on a p/e of 8, great investment!
#1 with over 6000km is my first electric. It's a bicycle. Does 65km/h, 0-50km/h in about 3 seconds, has a range of 50km, weighs 38kg and is loads of fun offroad! Here's a video:
#2 with a tad under 4000km is my most recent electric. I call it a bicycle because I don't want to have to try and license it and it can be pedalled. In reality it's a motorcycle. It does 85km/h, gets to 60 in 3 seconds and can do 100km on a charge! The downside is that it weighs 50kg, so it's heavy to pedal. In reality I'm probably not saving much electricity by pedalling, but at least I still get a workout. Here's a rather long video:
#3 is my souped up bladez electric scooter with about 100km on the clock. It's designed to run on 24v 450w of power, but I chucked some lithium in and boosted the volts to 38.4, and power to 3500w. This is the most dangerous vehicle I've ever been on. 40km/h comes up stupidly fast if you can hang on, and on 10 inch wheels is ludicrous. Also a crash on one of these sends you head first to the ground. I won't let people ride this without putting my crash helmet on first.
And that's it. Using electricity for power is even cheaper than pedalling if you consider the cost of food. The smaller bike runs on 1c/km in electricity, the big bike and scooter use double that! I've figured that I save about R2.50 using these toys instead of my already cheap econobox car, and I get some exercise, no traffic, help the environment and have waaaay more fun than I would in a car. In total I did spend R50k on all 3, the big bike was a luxury, not an economy choice. Without it the others would have long paid for themselves, but in the next 8000 km all three would have paid for themselves! The only thing I wonder is why more people don't build their own...
Oh and to keep it somewhat financial, I'll do the next 8000km in just over two years, so considering when I built the first bike, these run on a p/e of 8, great investment!
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Off topic / Re: Lies, damned lies and statistics
« on: April 17, 2014, 11:32:25 am »
And some more stats from the server side of things:
Not bad, the general trend is up. Note we're only halfway through April. PS these numbers are just for shareforum.co.za, not including investorchallenge.co.za
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Month Unique visitors Number of visits Pages
Jan 2014 4,463 11,403 169,494
Feb 2014 5,167 12,583 202,996
Mar 2014 5,809 14,045 187,846
Apr 2014 3,210 7,336 105,415
Not bad, the general trend is up. Note we're only halfway through April. PS these numbers are just for shareforum.co.za, not including investorchallenge.co.za
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Off topic / Lies, damned lies and statistics
« on: April 17, 2014, 11:09:17 am »
In general I'd agree with Mark Twain, but he was before the web where all the stats are automatically calculated! Thought it might be a good time to run through some of them...
Top 10 posters
Top ten topics by views
Here's an interesting one, most time online:
Anyway, that's some of the stats, what's needed now are some more enthusiastic members. If you have any ideas I'm happy to add new features. We've got the challenge, and the live chat. Both were member suggestions and great ideas. What else is lurking in those wise minds...?
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Total Members: 699Wonder what was significant about the morning of November the 15th???
Total Posts: 5755
Total Topics: 293
Most Online: 97 - November 15, 2013, 08:53:13 AM
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Average registrations per day:4.93That last number is too low! We're not a very vocal bunch
Average posts per day:12.17
Top 10 posters
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jaDEB 986If only there were more people who would speak up!
Orca 860
Moneypenny 723
Patrick 601
Moonraker 430
qriffin 221
gcr 200
tgg78703 188
Aragorn 161
Bundu 113
Top ten topics by views
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Today's Outlook 21965Interesting, people do read a lot! Even posts where I wouldn't expect much interest get huge views!
investor challenge 19312
CML 16239
Tax 10132
LDT - Dividend amounts and Last Day to Trade 10080
Pulverized Sand Box 8252
SAtrixindi 7124
Live chat 7109
Gold & Gold Shares 6921
Oceana Group Ltd 6822
Here's an interesting one, most time online:
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jaDEB 11d 16h 26m
Orca 8d 16h 10m
Delusionsofgrandeur 7d 7h 22m
Anyway, that's some of the stats, what's needed now are some more enthusiastic members. If you have any ideas I'm happy to add new features. We've got the challenge, and the live chat. Both were member suggestions and great ideas. What else is lurking in those wise minds...?
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The Investor Challenge / Re: ETF's?
« on: April 15, 2014, 10:14:17 am »
It may take a little while, my JSE link vanished with the website upgrade. I'm looking for a replacement.
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The Investor Challenge / Anyone know where the JSE moved their share price list to?
« on: April 15, 2014, 09:31:28 am »
I used to pull the prices from here: http://www.jse.co.za/Home/EquityPrices.aspx
Since they redesigned the site however I can't find that page or it's equivalent anymore. Anyone have a clue where it's gone?
Since they redesigned the site however I can't find that page or it's equivalent anymore. Anyone have a clue where it's gone?