Perth to Sydney electric bicycle tour

The Ride

Continuing the eZeebike tradition of epic electric bicycle tours, we're off for a big ride from Perth to Sydney from Aug 1 - Sep 14, 2013. We'll be riding around the WA coast, then across the Nullarbor to Port Augusta, up to the Flinders Ranges, then Adelaide. Then hopefully via Melbourne and up to Albury, Kosciusko National Park for a few hills, connecting to an off road adventure through Namadgi National Park to bring our e-bikes into Canberra, then on to Australia's spiritual home of the epic electric bicycle, Glow Worm Bicycles for a party on Friday Sep 13th from 5pm. All welcome to join in on the ride at various points along the way including the last section in to Sydney. We'd also be stoked to play show and tell with our equipment to any bike shops or bike groups along the way and we would definitely appreciate hot meals and warm beds! Just contact us with ideas!

The Riders

The riding will be a party of 3 - head tech and tech head Abraham and product testing specialist Maurice, both of Glow Worm Bicycles and international guest of honour, CEO of eZeebike, rider of the famed 3000km offroad e-bike trip in Africa and rider of the entire Silk Road from Shanghai to Pakistan, Wai Won Ching.

The Bikes and Gadgets

Abraham and Maurice will both be on the newly released (in Australia) eZee Titanium Torq and Wai Won Ching will be on the eZee Expedir, which will be carrying more than its fair share of food, water, camping supplies, batteries and chargers and will thus become in just 6 weeks, the most tested and challenged electric cargo bicycle on the market! We'll also be testing out the newly released 36V 28Ah battery.

Equipment

Bike 1 - Wai Won Ching will be testing out his latest worldwide release - the eZee Expedir - new to the market and already the best value and performing cargo electric bicycle, about to be tested to a standard no others can match! He's using the standard Expedir, with additional eZee 80 litre capacity pannier bags and L1000 super bright front e-bike light.

Bike 2 - Maurice's ride: eZee Torq Titanium - already the ultimate electric touring bicycle without peer in the world, the Torq Titanium takes it up a level! Maurice's bike is the factory offering from eZee for the Torq Titanium with a swag of titanium components including forks, handlebar, cassette and bottom bracket and titanium tubus rear rack and the brand new 36V 28Ah battery.

Bike 3 - Abraham's customised eZee Torq Titanium. Abraham, known for his exquisite (and expensive!) taste in all things bike and electric, started with the beautiful titanium torq frame and built up around it. He's also fully equipped with dataloggers of electric and human power, GPS data including speed, altitude and gradient and is able to charge USB devices and a mini laptop from the e-bike battery! Here's a rundown of the salient points:

GrinTech Cycle Analogger w/ GPS
GrinTech Cycle Luminator - multi brigtness front, 8 LED rear light
Cycle Analyst V3
Thun torque & rpm sensing bottom bracket (to measure human power)
Tubus chromoly front and rear racks
Touring handle bars & Vaude waterproof handlebar bag
Ortlieb Front and Back Roller Classic waterproof pannier bags
Thudbuster long travel suspension seatpost
1 x GrinTech 12V 20W DC-DC converter for netbook charging
1 x GrinTech 12V 20W DC-DC converter connected to dual USB cigarette adapter for phone and GoPro charging
Schwalbe Marathon Mondial touring tyres

We're packing 56Ah of batteries each, enough to take us 200km without a charge. This includes one super size 36V 28Ah battery, brand new to the world market and on sale for $1649 rrp. Amazingly this battery fits in the same case as the 36V 20Ah battery and is the same weight (5.5kg)!