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Here's the info i got from Chris...
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The only batteries I would use are carbon-fibre cells, more amp-hours for less weight than the equivalent leisure cells…. Unless you can sort out something based on NiCd or lithium ……
I had a pair of them connected in parallel and use a 20-amp switchmode smart charger. Basically every time I stopped I’d try to get someone to let me plug in.
Spares: 3 wheels/tyres./inner tubes. Spare axle (always a bugbear on my machine) spare motor..Toolkit capable of stripping the whole thing down (not as big as you’d expect) plus I put a 12V takeoff on my battery pack so that I could run phone charger etc and I’ve got an electric tyre inflator as the C5 tyres run pretty high pressure (I used Schwalbes at around 50-60psi)
My C5 has a trailer hitch on the bracketry that holds the Sturmey-Archer gearhub that acts as a gearbox on my pedals.
Started at John O’Groats because if I had a problem in Scotland I had all the time booked off work to deal with it…. Down south I could get out of a bail-out problem quickly, in Scotland there’s a lot of space between things…. The basic route is to try an davoid hills but you’re also stuck on trying to keep the route short too…. Basically head from JOG to Thurso , turn down through Sutherland (it avoids Berriedale because that is a horror story on a C5) that takes you out to the East coast of Scotland, to Inverness, Aviemore, Perth, Edinburgh, down through the borders to the eastern edge of the Lake District run down between Manchester and Liverpool, west of Birmingham, turn the corner at Bristol, trying to find a flat route in Cornwall was hard, but I figured I would be a lot fitter by the time I got there J
It’s been done by one C5 shared between a team of people, don’t think it’s ever been done solo…. If you have two of you then you’ll have a support vehicle which will make life a lot easier, I was towing the trailer with all my camping gear/Spares etc in behind the C5…… On a good day I was getting through 50-60 miles, with a support vehicle I would expect that to go up a bit but having done a 100 mile day on the Glastonbury trips I don’t think going over 50-60 miles a day is very good for you, that’s 5-6 hours riding a day and on mine that means pedalling nearly all the time…..
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