Loop the Lake: Day 3, Crossing the U.P.

September 5, 2015

I woke up this morning to a pretty quiet RV park. I made my instant oatmeal and also realized that I didn’t actually like Starbucks’ Via “Columbian” instant coffee. I’ve also found myself stuck a few times charging in a location nowhere near food. In town, I had seen a Super Walmart. After packing up […]

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Loop the Lake: Day 2, Part 2

September 4, 2015

Loop the Lake: Day 2 – From Green Bay to Escanaba, Part 2 Getting from Two Rivers to Green Bay was pretty uneventful. The weather had cleared up and skies were a beautiful blue. The main trick to Green Bay was that it had the LAST public EV charging station in about 250 miles. In […]

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Loop the Lake: Day 2, Part 1

September 4, 2015

Loop the Lake: Day 2 – From Green Bay to Escanaba, Part 1 I woke up to the sound of rain. Not what I wanted to hear first thing in the morning when I would be traveling all day on an electric motorcycle. I didn’t even know where I was exactly. I had pulled in […]

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Loop the Lake: Day 1

September 3, 2015

  Today’s the day. I took off for my Loop the Lake trip. To start with, I planned the dates of the trip around other things I had to do in my life, including seeing the Little Girl off to her first day of school. I wanted to make sure she had a good experience, […]

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Gone, baby, gone.

September 2, 2015

That’s it, I’m done. I need sleep. I’m leaving first thing tomorrow morning for the trip and I STILL have to actually pack. However, I built a seat for the bike today, and finished a lot of other small but important bits, including the vinyl lettering. After all that, I finally got to take it […]

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2 Days to go.

August 31, 2015

I managed to get some more work on the cycle today! After finally finishing off the last few pieces of aluminum, I built a wood framework around the trunk, based on the coroplast piece I had already cut. I was using a very light-weight plywood. It’s sturdy enough to be a shelf, without adding much […]

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4 Days to Go…

August 29, 2015

It’s only four days to go before leaving on the Loop the Lake tour, and I still have WAY too much to do! After two very full days of some unexpected work I had to do, I got a chance to continue working on the cycle. To start with, I picked up a lock from […]

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Progress and Setbacks

August 27, 2015

It’s only one week until I leave for the LOOP THE LAKE trip. Am I ready yet? Well….. I HAVE made some good advances on my aero/cargo tail. After seeing how much gear I needed to bring with me, I decided that I really needed something better than a passenger seat to carry it all. […]

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Loop The Lake Official Route and Timeline!

August 18, 2015

  It’s official, I have a route. After a number of range tests, I’ve decided that 150 miles per day is what is going to work for this trip. The longest I’ve traveled on the Vectrix so far on a single continuous charge is 75 miles. Traveling at faster speeds, about 60 miles is what […]

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Please help support LOOP THE LAKE!

August 14, 2015

LOOP THE LAKE is a do it yourself road rally, to take place in the first half of September, 2015, where electric motorcycles will travel over 1,000 miles circumnavigating Lake Michigan, without using a single drop of gasoline. Rider and film-maker Ben Nelson will be making the complete journey, joined in sections by other riders, […]

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