I set off at noon. The Sea to Sky Highway between Squamish and Horseshoe Bay has loud, heavy traffic requiring my full attention. The spectacular views of Beautiful British Columbia go mostly unappreciated.
Surface streets take me to Grin Technologies headquarters in Vancouver. My bike is a rolling show-room for Grin: regenerative braking–capable All Axle hub motor, airline-friendly LiGo+ batteries, buttery-smooth Phaserunner motor controller, and the brains to tie it all together – a Cycle Analyst running solar firmware.
My arrival coincides with Friday afternoon “beer o’clock”. Grin’s neighbors are having a barbecue and we are all invited. For a pescatarian, “barbecue” does not trigger an enthusiastic response but it turns out that DWAY are a Japanese fish and sake wholesaler for the Vancouver area and “barbecue” is an affair mostly involving grilled fish and expertly prepared sushi. My kind of barbecue!
This is my proposed route. I’ll mostly be following the ACA Northern Tier to Chicagoland, then the ACA Bike Route 66 to Southern California and the Mexican border. This is the shakedown cruise I originally planned for 2018 to test the bike, gear and rider before setting out on a world tour.
SOLAR ebike 