This is the most wonderful video! It has so much creativity, innovation, boldness, fearlessness, perseverance. There is creation of a custom made back-to-back rowing and pedaling solar powered electric vehicle with homemade motors and custom dedicated electronics to manage it all. Justin is a genius. A long-distance, big-picture creative genius with an always winning smile and kind manner. And Anna-Sophie solo unicycled the rugged distant immense Patagonia to Santiago! Wow! This video has it all. These two super-heros are living lives of extraordinary accomplishment, doing colorful brave things that are not easy and only a fantastical dream to most of us. Justin and Anna-Sophie diligently endeavor, persevere and self-determine their way forward pioneering glorious lives that enable and inspire us! Thank you Justin and Anna-Sophie. Thank you very much for enabling and inspiring us to live our own lives in a richer, more fulfilling way! :-)
Yeah, she'd been dreaming of doing that trip for a long long time and then decided she's not gonna wait any more and then took off for 6 month! There's some details and pictures here: annesophierodet.com/patagonia.html I joined her for a week with a folding bike on a stretch along the border with Arentina and Chile and it was TOUGH going. Lots of respect for sure.
Super cool! Congratulations Justin & An’So..... Just discovered your conversion video’s on YT...... I feel like I know you guys a little bit... and my condolences Justin, to you on your Mother’s passing... God Bless you guys!.... I will be recommending GRIN to my family & friends!..... Rock on from Joseph in New Mexico, USA 🥰👍🏻✌🏻
Stunning. I have driven that route in to Iran with my kids 2016 in a 1957 car but your trip is 1000 more epic. Love your film and you are both an inspiration. Wish the world was more full of people like you. Love it. Honestly so inspiring.
So good to see this, having watched the bike prep videos. Excited that you included your wonderful marriage ceremony and celebrations in it as well. Hope the business is able to survive the current turmoil.
I saw this video as soon as you published it, but today watching the complete video from Solar Trip, I've realized that all of the participant were using the CA that I have, which is the CA you designed and produced, and you give me in your visit to Buenos Aires!!! I feel a pro now, jejeje. Grin rules!
Congrats on your epic adventure. What a memory to have made. Keep up the great work on developing e-bike parts I always follow your blog with great interest.
Congratulations to this unique couple and bike build . Amazing solution. Go ahead and sell lot of them. 9000 Dollar each , its a complete Gym. I recently build an Cargo Tricycle also Solarpowered with 300 W Panel . But not for fun its for work at the Flower Farm here in Mexico.
Hey Bravo on your own cargo tricycle. Email us some pictures to info@ebikes.ca as we love to see the solar bike contraptions others have built. This suntrip trike was the very definition of a "one-off" so we expect to sell zero units, but hopefully inspire many hundreds.
Not going to comment on the obvious.. Aaanywaays, Friggin cool bike, awesome adventure! Really been wanting to do something like this for a couple of years now. What scares me is the thought of something breaking down. Blown controller or a shot stator
Hey there, don't let fear of component failure hold you back! It's easy to pack a spare motor controller and other critical parts, and to keep an eye on your motor temperature to make sure you don't overheat and burn up the stator on any really long climbs. In the end most of the failures that people on the Suntrip had were mechanical in nature from all the bumpy roads and vibration stressing the bike hardware. Lots of roadside welding jobs along the way for those who made it all the way to china. The electrical components have been surprisingly robust.
Anne-Sophie is definitely a "keeper"....you'll both talk about the trip when you are 90 years old sitting and sitting on your porch in your rocking chairs together :).
Glad I found your Channel, would be interesting if you make a trip across Canada and make a nice stop in Montreal ☺️. Keep it up, great videos and a great field to be in. 90% of my power for my electric bike is solar but it's a little different format than what you have. But I always wondered about a trike with a solar on top I think it is the smartest idea
Did that back in 2008 and had a great time! This was before I took solar very seriously though, so all grid charging: endless-sphere.com/sphere/threads/cross-canada-by-ebike.5652/ Crossing into quebec starts around page 17/18
Imagine a 4 person cart on rails with solar panels and say a 20kWh battery. How efficient would that be? Each cart smart enough to connect to others and disconnect when required to switch tracks to reach individual destinations. Kind of like a ride at a theme park, but better. Generator cart for bad days if needed running on natural gas or whatever is best.
Nothing beats steel wheels on steel rails for insanely low rolling drag, and nothing beats a bunch of vehicles linked end to end for extremely low relative air resistance. So the efficiency would be amazing. It's fun to speculate what this world would look like if the discovery of oil and coal happened a century or two later.
Inspirational and an adventure to remember for a lifetime. Ciuld you please tell me how much the loaded rig weighed without riders and what size motors you used? Thanks
You guys are truly inspiring!!! 💯👍 I'm a 47 year old that just got bit my the e-Bike big, & after owning 1 & ditching my car for a bike, I don't regret it at all, all the money I'm saving!!! 😂 I'm very interested in getting into building & repairing e-Bikes, but have no training or much experience, is there a good, cheap way to learn???
Best way to learn is to do a number of custom e-builds and projects for yourself, get your hands dirty, and really embrace the learning process when things don't work and need repair. Over time you then get a pretty solid foundation. There's no substitute for that.
The back to back position if used to keep the chassis short makes sense but im not sure about that rowing stuff just seems like wasted motion and inefficiency plus weights and complexity
That's mostly to mix things up so that we weren't just bored spinning our legs all day but got to get a bit more of a full body exercise. See my explanation in the first post of the ES build thread: endless-sphere.com/sphere/threads/my-sun-trip-bike-back-to-back-tandem-trike-with-rowing-generator-pedals-solar.93482/ Rowing bikes are definitely a niche thing, but they do have a following, complexities aside.
Hey SolarEbike, we have another hour long video of the presentations I gave on solar bike touring at the BC Bike Show earlier this year which goes into more detail on the lessons and takeaways from this solar bike trip, and we're hoping to have that ready to release this weekend! For Lessons about actually making this documentary, I still can't believe this actually worked. We had pretty crummy footage and more or less gave up on trying to film anything about half way through the trip, but somehow there managed to be enough clips on the camera that our video guy Aaron was able to tie it together in a cohesive story. So many absolutely great moments and heartbreaking moments of the trip weren't recorded at all. The dream would be to have a camera person following you and surreptitiously capturing the magic while you as a rider just think about having an adventure instead of recording it. One can wish.. Anyways we all can't wait for your own globe trotting solar bike trip to get going and to see the documentary on that :-)
@@GrinTechnologies I can imagine... I scoured TH-cam for all Sun Trip 2018 videos a while back and my impression is that capturing even something is _hard._ A few clips here and there is easy, sure, but doing it consistently no matter the circumstances as the marathon stretches on... that is worthy of praise and not many dedicate their energy toward that part, not when there are endless kilometers behind you and yet more ahead. Kudos for sharing what you could! Oh and hey @solarEbike your project kicks ass and I wish the best of luck to your trip whenever circumstances allow starting it!
We didn't have the means to quantify the relative contribution of each rider, but my hunch is no. Things were definitely a bit slower when just the rower was rowing compared to when just the pedaler was pedaling.
Hey Paul and thanks for watching! This was 100% solar power energy, as the rules of the Suntrip ride don't allow you to charge up from the Grid. But they do allow you to stop and pedal the motors as generators to stockpile energy or put on a live music show if anyone was so inclined ;-)
@@GrinTechnologies Does that mean that the total energy used by your motors was a little higher than what you collected from the sun? I can't imagine you would have had a lot of extra leg power to pump your batteries by the side of the road.
I would love to do about the same next April, but I can't find the information I need anywhere. What I need specifically are solar panels that fit in my bags (size 35x42 folded would be ideal) and can power my 36 volt batteries. So far all the panels that small are maximum 18 volt and in Europe the batteries are 36 volt. Also I have no idea where to find a connector or what to google. If I can find the parts my plan is to have one small panel non folded 35x42 on top of my bags full time and two bigger foldable panels in my bags that I will use each day between 12 and 3 and then ride also through Lyon from northern to southern Europe on a "regular" e-bike. Where do I find the right panels and the connector, are there companies specialised in this yet?
You've got a lot to learn but you gotta start somewhere! We created this video here specifically for people in your situation: th-cam.com/video/14yliWlykfg/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=GrinTechnologies Making a viable solar ebike touring setup requires more than just "finding the parts" as you suggest. But as long as you're persistent you should be able to figure enough of it out to have a great adventure next year.
You can but it would be a really terrible experience. The timing of when the sun does and doesn't land on the panel will not at all correlate with how much power you need on the bicycle, and all the solar energy that lands on the panels when you don't need it (eg stopped at a traffic light, coasting downhill etc) will get wasted. The system is vastly more efficient and useful when you have a battery to buffer the energy flow.
Not sure what you mean by available? The solar trike is still working and we gave it a good overhaul for the Fully Charged Live EV show this summer, see th-cam.com/video/sr46_DknhGg/w-d-xo.html But it hasn't been on any real significant adventure since the suntrip in 2018.
Way too condensed. The text bits need to be at least 5-7 seconds long....if not 10 seconds. I was constantly having to pause the playback just to read the text narration. Sorry I'm 64 and not 24 years old, but the visual clips were also too short and the whole things just said " I can't be bothered, I'm way in a rush" ...... Great visuals but way too brief and transient. Not enough time to let emotional impacts soak in....so it comes off as trite and superficial. Perhaps if I was smoking crystal methamphetamine this film would have "clicked' .....but I'm not built that way. 😉
This is the most wonderful video! It has so much creativity, innovation, boldness, fearlessness, perseverance. There is creation of a custom made back-to-back rowing and pedaling solar powered electric vehicle with homemade motors and custom dedicated electronics to manage it all. Justin is a genius. A long-distance, big-picture creative genius with an always winning smile and kind manner. And Anna-Sophie solo unicycled the rugged distant immense Patagonia to Santiago! Wow! This video has it all. These two super-heros are living lives of extraordinary accomplishment, doing colorful brave things that are not easy and only a fantastical dream to most of us. Justin and Anna-Sophie diligently endeavor, persevere and self-determine their way forward pioneering glorious lives that enable and inspire us! Thank you Justin and Anna-Sophie. Thank you very much for enabling and inspiring us to live our own lives in a richer, more fulfilling way! :-)
This was amazing Journey and feat. This trumps Love Cycles in my books.
Magnificent! I wish Justin and Anne-Sophie all the best. Live Long & Prosper you two beautiful people.phil from America👍❤️🇺🇲🍀
Ok, I'm just gonna start commenting as I'm watching this. First off, I did not realize Anne-so had done that incredible unicycle trip. WHAT A BOSS!!!!
Yeah, she'd been dreaming of doing that trip for a long long time and then decided she's not gonna wait any more and then took off for 6 month! There's some details and pictures here:
annesophierodet.com/patagonia.html
I joined her for a week with a folding bike on a stretch along the border with Arentina and Chile and it was TOUGH going. Lots of respect for sure.
@@GrinTechnologies I hope to one day explore the same territory. Love y'all!!
Super cool! Congratulations Justin & An’So..... Just discovered your conversion video’s on YT...... I feel like I know you guys a little bit... and my condolences Justin, to you on your Mother’s passing...
God Bless you guys!.... I will be recommending GRIN to my family & friends!..... Rock on from Joseph in New Mexico, USA 🥰👍🏻✌🏻
Fantastic travel and history, increible
THE GREATEST VIDEO I SEEN IN A LONG TIME!! 🎉
What a nice couple! When you can endure a trip like this, you can stay married forever I guess. 🤗
Stunning. I have driven that route in to Iran with my kids 2016 in a 1957 car but your trip is 1000 more epic. Love your film and you are both an inspiration. Wish the world was more full of people like you. Love it. Honestly so inspiring.
Congratulations on such an awesome wedding and honeymoon! Thank you for sharing such precious moments.
Heros, we need more people like that.
This is Fantastic!!!!!!!!!
Thus dude! So incredibly awesome.
What an amazing adventure!
So good to see this, having watched the bike prep videos. Excited that you included your wonderful marriage ceremony and celebrations in it as well. Hope the business is able to survive the current turmoil.
A very enjoyable video! A BIG thumbs up to you two.
Thank you, it was a fun trip that left us with lots of great memories and we're glad you enjoyed it.
Amazing trip and video! Thank you for this inspiring journey!
oh wow that's impressive! I'm moe impressed by the commitment and the journal xD
Love love love ur videos ❤❤❤
This is incredible!
Inspirational !
I love you guys!
wow! great build.
Thanks, we still have the trike and hope it gets to see another long journey one of these days.
No comment,I can feel good vibes every where, thank you Justin and An'so.
Awesome venture. Loved it!
Love what you tow did
Ty😊😊😊😊😊
I saw this video as soon as you published it, but today watching the complete video from Solar Trip, I've realized that all of the participant were using the CA that I have, which is the CA you designed and produced, and you give me in your visit to Buenos Aires!!! I feel a pro now, jejeje. Grin rules!
Congrats on your epic adventure. What a memory to have made. Keep up the great work on developing e-bike parts I always follow your blog with great interest.
Great, merci
Very, very inspiring.
adventurous couple. wow they are so lucky.
What a great summer that was! So happy I got to be a part of the team.
Great machine, and an incredible adventure!
Congratulations to this unique couple and bike build . Amazing solution. Go ahead and sell lot of them. 9000 Dollar each , its a complete Gym. I recently build an Cargo Tricycle also Solarpowered with 300 W Panel . But not for fun its for work at the Flower Farm here in Mexico.
Hey Bravo on your own cargo tricycle. Email us some pictures to info@ebikes.ca as we love to see the solar bike contraptions others have built. This suntrip trike was the very definition of a "one-off" so we expect to sell zero units, but hopefully inspire many hundreds.
dude thanks for the video, this is epic.
Wow congratulations on such an epic journey you two! Well done!
you are incredible
this ties so many of my interests together it's wild. I would watch a the full length doc, whatever that meant.
Not going to comment on the obvious.. Aaanywaays,
Friggin cool bike, awesome adventure! Really been wanting to do something like this for a couple of years now. What scares me is the thought of something breaking down. Blown controller or a shot stator
Hey there, don't let fear of component failure hold you back! It's easy to pack a spare motor controller and other critical parts, and to keep an eye on your motor temperature to make sure you don't overheat and burn up the stator on any really long climbs.
In the end most of the failures that people on the Suntrip had were mechanical in nature from all the bumpy roads and vibration stressing the bike hardware. Lots of roadside welding jobs along the way for those who made it all the way to china. The electrical components have been surprisingly robust.
Show parabéns pelo projeto Alvaro Botelho Villela Brasil
C'est bien étonnante.
Anne-Sophie is definitely a "keeper"....you'll both talk about the trip when you are 90 years old sitting and sitting on your porch in your rocking chairs together :).
Cheers, that's my hope too! :-)
Nice *RivNuts!*
Está excelente. Sería muy bueno tener una versión con subtítulos en español
Fantastic 👍
Cheers
Merci pour cette vidéo !
Notre Plaisir! Nous sommes content de la bonne reception est on espere donner un peu d'inspiration aux autres.
Glad I found your Channel, would be interesting if you make a trip across Canada and make a nice stop in Montreal ☺️.
Keep it up, great videos and a great field to be in. 90% of my power for my electric bike is solar but it's a little different format than what you have. But I always wondered about a trike with a solar on top I think it is the smartest idea
Did that back in 2008 and had a great time! This was before I took solar very seriously though, so all grid charging:
endless-sphere.com/sphere/threads/cross-canada-by-ebike.5652/
Crossing into quebec starts around page 17/18
Imagine a 4 person cart on rails with solar panels and say a 20kWh battery. How efficient would that be? Each cart smart enough to connect to others and disconnect when required to switch tracks to reach individual destinations. Kind of like a ride at a theme park, but better. Generator cart for bad days if needed running on natural gas or whatever is best.
Nothing beats steel wheels on steel rails for insanely low rolling drag, and nothing beats a bunch of vehicles linked end to end for extremely low relative air resistance. So the efficiency would be amazing. It's fun to speculate what this world would look like if the discovery of oil and coal happened a century or two later.
epic!
nice build!
Inspirational and an adventure to remember for a lifetime. Ciuld you please tell me how much the loaded rig weighed without riders and what size motors you used? Thanks
You guys are truly inspiring!!! 💯👍 I'm a 47 year old that just got bit my the e-Bike big, & after owning 1 & ditching my car for a bike, I don't regret it at all, all the money I'm saving!!! 😂
I'm very interested in getting into building & repairing e-Bikes, but have no training or much experience, is there a good, cheap way to learn???
Best way to learn is to do a number of custom e-builds and projects for yourself, get your hands dirty, and really embrace the learning process when things don't work and need repair. Over time you then get a pretty solid foundation. There's no substitute for that.
Amazing. I want to build a solar off road fat trike or quad for overlanding adventures. Your singled sided hub-motors will be perfect.
They are perfect and you should build your dream EV my friend!
Cool 👍🏼
why but why don't they use filled tire or at least Tannus armor ??
You know how to live.
The back to back position if used to keep the chassis short makes sense but im not sure about that rowing stuff just seems like wasted motion and inefficiency plus weights and complexity
That's mostly to mix things up so that we weren't just bored spinning our legs all day but got to get a bit more of a full body exercise. See my explanation in the first post of the ES build thread:
endless-sphere.com/sphere/threads/my-sun-trip-bike-back-to-back-tandem-trike-with-rowing-generator-pedals-solar.93482/
Rowing bikes are definitely a niche thing, but they do have a following, complexities aside.
@@GrinTechnologies my bad I didn't listen to the whole thing
Thanks for putting this great energy out into the world. Do you have any thoughts to share about lessons learned from making this documentary?
Hey SolarEbike, we have another hour long video of the presentations I gave on solar bike touring at the BC Bike Show earlier this year which goes into more detail on the lessons and takeaways from this solar bike trip, and we're hoping to have that ready to release this weekend!
For Lessons about actually making this documentary, I still can't believe this actually worked. We had pretty crummy footage and more or less gave up on trying to film anything about half way through the trip, but somehow there managed to be enough clips on the camera that our video guy Aaron was able to tie it together in a cohesive story. So many absolutely great moments and heartbreaking moments of the trip weren't recorded at all. The dream would be to have a camera person following you and surreptitiously capturing the magic while you as a rider just think about having an adventure instead of recording it. One can wish..
Anyways we all can't wait for your own globe trotting solar bike trip to get going and to see the documentary on that :-)
@@GrinTechnologies I can imagine... I scoured TH-cam for all Sun Trip 2018 videos a while back and my impression is that capturing even something is _hard._ A few clips here and there is easy, sure, but doing it consistently no matter the circumstances as the marathon stretches on... that is worthy of praise and not many dedicate their energy toward that part, not when there are endless kilometers behind you and yet more ahead.
Kudos for sharing what you could! Oh and hey @solarEbike your project kicks ass and I wish the best of luck to your trip whenever circumstances allow starting it!
Late to the party, but did the rowing create more energy than cycling would?
We didn't have the means to quantify the relative contribution of each rider, but my hunch is no. Things were definitely a bit slower when just the rower was rowing compared to when just the pedaler was pedaling.
Great piece! The energy used is incredible. Did you also charge from the wall? You must have been pedaling hard. Paul / Rock The Bike
Hey Paul and thanks for watching! This was 100% solar power energy, as the rules of the Suntrip ride don't allow you to charge up from the Grid. But they do allow you to stop and pedal the motors as generators to stockpile energy or put on a live music show if anyone was so inclined ;-)
@@GrinTechnologies Does that mean that the total energy used by your motors was a little higher than what you collected from the sun? I can't imagine you would have had a lot of extra leg power to pump your batteries by the side of the road.
I would love to do about the same next April, but I can't find the information I need anywhere. What I need specifically are solar panels that fit in my bags (size 35x42 folded would be ideal) and can power my 36 volt batteries. So far all the panels that small are maximum 18 volt and in Europe the batteries are 36 volt. Also I have no idea where to find a connector or what to google.
If I can find the parts my plan is to have one small panel non folded 35x42 on top of my bags full time and two bigger foldable panels in my bags that I will use each day between 12 and 3 and then ride also through Lyon from northern to southern Europe on a "regular" e-bike. Where do I find the right panels and the connector, are there companies specialised in this yet?
You've got a lot to learn but you gotta start somewhere! We created this video here specifically for people in your situation:
th-cam.com/video/14yliWlykfg/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=GrinTechnologies
Making a viable solar ebike touring setup requires more than just "finding the parts" as you suggest. But as long as you're persistent you should be able to figure enough of it out to have a great adventure next year.
Can you ride a bike only by solar panel? Not any battery as a support.
You can but it would be a really terrible experience. The timing of when the sun does and doesn't land on the panel will not at all correlate with how much power you need on the bicycle, and all the solar energy that lands on the panels when you don't need it (eg stopped at a traffic light, coasting downhill etc) will get wasted. The system is vastly more efficient and useful when you have a battery to buffer the energy flow.
Is your project available? I’m mostly interested in the E part :)
Not sure what you mean by available? The solar trike is still working and we gave it a good overhaul for the Fully Charged Live EV show this summer, see th-cam.com/video/sr46_DknhGg/w-d-xo.html
But it hasn't been on any real significant adventure since the suntrip in 2018.
@@GrinTechnologies i meant like some E-plans or similar, components you used etc.
I’m asking that as I am planning my own setup but it would be great to get some inspirations
Can I safely charge 48v 13s battery at 8.2amp using Genasun controller or is it too high? thanks!
That would be fine, it's just barely over C/2
5:59 she definitly has a crush to the dude on her right XD
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Way too condensed. The text bits need to be at least 5-7 seconds long....if not 10 seconds. I was constantly having to pause the playback just to read the text narration. Sorry I'm 64 and not 24 years old, but the visual clips were also too short and the whole things just said " I can't be bothered, I'm way in a rush" ...... Great visuals but way too brief and transient. Not enough time to let emotional impacts soak in....so it comes off as trite and superficial. Perhaps if I was smoking crystal methamphetamine this film would have "clicked' .....but I'm not built that way. 😉