Tag: electric
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Electric Motorcycles in the Tour de France?
Interesting question posted on the Tour de France subreddit… This was my reply: Let me frame my response with this – I have followed the Tour de France twice (once backpacking and once on a gas-powered motorcycle). And I have ridden an electric motorcycle from San Francisco to New York City. So I have some…
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July 16, 2016-Quiet Morning in the Desert
“If any of those who read this ever have ridden in one of the bowls made of slats that are known as cycle whirls, a very fair idea can be formed by them of what bouncing over railroad ties on a cycle is like unto. I have ridden an ordinary bicycle in a cycle whirl…
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July 15, 2016-Saturday Night in Elko, Nevada
“…to tell the whole truth, I went to bed thoroughly disgusted with my bargain. I felt as if I was a fool for attempting to cross the continent on a motor bicycle. I was tired of sand and sagebrush and railroad ties. My back ached, and I fell asleep feeling as if I did not…
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July 15, 2016 – I Charge Across Nevada
In this chapter of “Following Wyman: An Electric Motorcycle Adventure” I find places to charge in the desert while Wyman struggles. Check it out on Substack: https://followingwyman.substack.com/p/july-15-2016-i-charge-across-nevada?r=2rzwg #Motorcycle, #ev, #electricmotorcycle, #substack, #writing, #Nevada
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Across the Forty Mile Desert
The next chapter of my electric cross-country adventure is now on Substack. I’m still in Nevada, spellbound by it’s rugged beauty and gobsmacked at how George A. Wyman and others before him crossed these vast, inhospitable distances. https://open.substack.com/pub/followingwyman/p/07-across-the-forty-mile-desert?r=2rzwg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Wyman 06 – Into the Desert
I finally leave the safe confines of California – and it’s relative abundance of EV charging stations – for the literal and figurative deserts of Nevada… https://open.substack.com/pub/followingwyman/p/06-into-the-desert
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The Sound of Zero
Have you ever heard an electric motorcycle before? Whaddya think? From my electric cross country roadtrip in 2016. Visit “In the Tire Tracks of George A. Wyman” on Substack for more.
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05-Up and Over the Sierra Nevada
After a long hiatus, chapter 5 of my Wyman story on Substack is published.
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