Red Echo

December 14, 2012

So cold this morning. I rode in wearing a fleece jacket under my thinsulate-lined leather bike jacket and I still felt the cold air trickling in any time I didn’t hold my chest just right so the collar line was pressed against my neck. Wow.

The pair of Headway cells I ordered showed up yesterday, and test-fitting them in the electric motorcycle frame shows that the layout will work pretty much exactly as I hoped. Some time in another couple of months I’ll make a bracket which will place the motor right about where the old gas engine’s transmission used to sit, then I’ll fill the rest of the engine bay with stacks of these batteries.

Maybe I’ll spend a couple of hours working on the polartec lining for my ski jacket tomorrow. It’d be nice to have my ski gear all set and ready for whenever I get a chance to hit the slopes.