Hi Chris,
Good luck with the goal of lower cholesterol and the and the increased
opportunity for photography with your XA4. Just remember that contour
hugging, pylon skimming flights in a Tornado are one thing but taking a
cycle out on our roads can be extremely dangerous.
Good luck!
--Graham
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 17 June 2005 20:12
Subject: [OM] The journey to work - electrically
>
> Going through Graham's entertaining website (it's like a dictionary,
> you go there to see one thing but find loads of others while you're
> there ...) I saw again his bike ride series. In it he mentions a
> chap on an electric bike. Well I have been advised, politely, by my
> doc to lose around 7kg (15.43lb according to my Mac calculator,
> referring to pounds as "US pounds" for some reason) and to go down
> from 5.8 total cholestorol to less than 5.2 using exercise*. Well I
> thought that I would cycle to work on occasion, but the journey is 17
> or 18 miles (27.36 or 28.97km). This is too far to cycle if I want
> to guarantee getting there for Met Brief at 0830, so I have bought an
> bike with an electric motor.
>
> The bike is a Scott Sportster P5 and the motor is a Currie 24v with
> 9AH Ni-MH battery. It does around 16 miles with liberal use of the
> motor (but pedalling all the while) and it is pretty fast. I did 17
> miles in 1 hr on Tuesday and I am only mildly sweaty on arrival if I
> allow a little time to cool down. Going home is magic, even with
> headwinds (which there will nearly always be as my mean heading is
> 180 degrees) as I have time to stop and get out my camera and snap at
> whatever takes my fancy. And that is how this is an on-topic post: I
> always carry an Olmpus with me.
>
> In fact, I have just bought an XA4 (again) on the online auction
> website and I am looking forward to some wideangle shots based on the
> GeeBee model. Hurrah! ;-)
>
> Chris
> ~~ >-)-
> C M I Barker
> Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
> +44 (0)7092 251126
> www.threeshoes.co.uk
> homepage.mac.com/zuiko
>
>
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