KPREN

Was out riding this afternoon in the heat of the day Temps were near 90 with high humidity. I have a cadence sensed bike so I can set it for fast biking without much input from me and have a nice breeze and an empty bike path. I had the puppy with me cuz she likes to go, even if its hot. We had stopped at a picnic table where I gave her some water to drink. I too had a nice drink with ice in it. We were 7.5 miles from home and 750 feet of climbing yet to go. The breeze was nice but all of a sudden, the wind shifted from south west to south east and picked up a little. When that happens I am on guard. I knew there was weather to the west but figured it was still two hours away.
I started to slowly pack things up and all of a sudden the phone goes off with that Defcon1 sound and a weather warning for winds to 80 mph with the impact areas and times. A quick calculation gave me about 20 minutes to make it home before I would be overtaken. There was nothing on the horizon yet so I knew it had to be fast and bad. I got moving in two minutes and put the power at max. My battery was below 50% but the capacity is very large so I knew it could handle the mad dash for home.
In a couple of minutes I got my first look at the horizon and it was darker to the west. I was going away from the storms at first but I could see they were catching me and I was at 29 mph. In two miles I had to turn north and head a bit into the storms. Wow was it moving fast. I adjusted the gears for maximum rpm on the climbs and I was still looking at 25mph pulling 1,500 watts from the batteries. I had four stop signs I had to slow down for but I did not have to stop fully and wait for traffic.
I pulled into my garage about three minutes before the first gust front hit us. Just enough time to secure the trash cans and the table ambarella. When I started by sprint I hit the display for zero miles. My average for that sprint was 27.2 mph That is by far the longest I have ever been in high power and the highest speed average I have ever seen. I made it in under 17 minutes. Hope I don't have to repeat that any time soon. Thank god I left one setting unrestricted for just this scenario. . The other 8 settings are all 750 watts or less motor output. I needed both speed and climbing ability. .

shelbyfv

Cool! If you are going to have a motor, best to have as much power as possible.

KPREN

My wife just chided me on my ordeal. She is from Missouri and told me I did not learn one damned thing from the Wizard of Oz. She said I should have learned that its a bad idea to take tiny black curly little dogs out on bicycles when inclement weather might develop.
Guess its a good thing I had an e bike or I might have been seeing Olé' Granny Gulch go by in a clould.

donheff

I'm more worried about the dog than you. Did the poor thing have to run on the tri back?

Doc_Wui

Yeah, we wanna know if the dog had her own bike or if she rode on back,

KPREN

The puppy is 1,200 grams

Picture of the pup on that picnic table before the fast ride.
and rides on my back