Cairo to CAPE EBIKE RIDE

[Shebeen]

https://www.facebook.com/c2ctcf/

 

https://m.news24.com/Green/News/joburger-to-cycle-from-cairo-to-cape-town-to-raise-climate-change-awareness-20190817

[MORNE]

I love how 'carbon free' gets thrown around so loosely in instances like this.

There is enough inherent energy in all this crap we use to make up for 100 trips in a dodgy diesel truck from Cairo to CT, while burning some trees for fire wood as you go along lol

 

anyway...cool adventure though, I like this kind of thing and would defo like to do something like it one day. Hope he makes it...worst case he'll have to pedal that 25kg dead weight through zim..propably a Guinness world record in it self lol 

[bikebloke]

im sorry but how does riding a motorized bicycle make you the fastest cyclist cape to cairo ?

 

does that mean that if i get one of those cars that converts into a plane and fly there im the fastest driver ?

[Fat Boab]

Maybe he's looking to set an ebike Cairo to Cape record?

 

PS Don't forget the article was written by a journalist and they don't tend to insert footnotes by way of background detail or context.

 

PPS "offset the carbon footprint of the trip." This may not mean fully offset the carbon footprint, as in carbon-neutral...

[Shebeen]

i dunno how he is charging batteries, hot swapping from the landy?

 

 

I love how 'carbon free' gets thrown around so loosely in instances like this.

There is enough inherent energy in all this crap we use to make up for 100 trips in a dodgy diesel truck from Cairo to CT, while burning some trees for fire wood as you go along lol

 

anyway...cool adventure though, I like this kind of thing and would defo like to do something like it one day. Hope he makes it...worst case he'll have to pedal that 25kg dead weight through zim..propably a Guinness world record in it self lol 

ja, Greta Thunberg is currently sailing the atlantic on an Imoca 60 (a carbon lightweight  singlehanded race machine)

 

sure it's getting talked about and many are picking apart the Zero Carbon vibe on a carbon fibre boat. but i'm all for the conversation, no matter how it gets started!

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/greta-thunberg-four-days-into-atlantic-crossing

 

https://time.com/5652024/greta-thunberg-sailing-atlantic/

[Ferro]

Just be sure to flag his ride on Strava.

[Rocket-Boy]

i dunno how he is charging batteries, hot swapping from the landy?

 

 

ja, Greta Thunberg is currently sailing the atlantic on an Imoca 60 (a carbon lightweight  singlehanded race machine)

 

sure it's getting talked about and many are picking apart the Zero Carbon vibe on a carbon fibre boat. but i'm all for the conversation, no matter how it gets started!

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/greta-thunberg-four-days-into-atlantic-crossing

 

https://time.com/5652024/greta-thunberg-sailing-atlantic/

That Greta Thunberg story is just about publicity. Just flying back the crew will generate more carbon emission than her and her dad having flown there in the first place.

 

Of course flying there quietly wouldnt have received any publicity...

[MORNE]

That Greta Thunberg story is just about publicity. Just flying back the crew will generate more carbon emission than her and her dad having flown there in the first place.

 

Of course flying there quietly wouldnt have received any publicity...

yea..kinda like the Formula 1 franchise trying so hard to sell their tree hugger BS in the name of showing how relevant they are, at the cost of the actual show and what motorsport inherently stands for.

Meanwhile back at  the ranch each of team travels with 50 tons of crap and 200 people around the globe basically EVERY single fortnight. But hey...as long as it looks like we care on TV thats all that matters right?           

Thats just one example from my personal reference framework...i'm sure there are lots of others.                                  

[Gnarly]

yea..kinda like the Formula 1 franchise trying so hard to sell their tree hugger BS in the name of showing how relevant they are, at the cost of the actual show and what motorsport inherently stands for.

Meanwhile back at  the ranch each of team travels with 50 tons of crap and 200 people around the globe basically EVERY single fortnight. But hey...as long as it looks like we care on TV thats all that matters right?           

Thats just one example from my personal reference framework...i'm sure there are lots of others.                                  

 

And drink their Red Bull's through a straw. 

[Butterbean]

yea..kinda like the Formula 1 franchise trying so hard to sell their tree hugger BS in the name of showing how relevant they are, at the cost of the actual show and what motorsport inherently stands for.

Meanwhile back at the ranch each of team travels with 50 tons of crap and 200 people around the globe basically EVERY single fortnight. But hey...as long as it looks like we care on TV thats all that matters right?

Thats just one example from my personal reference framework...i'm sure there are lots of others.

Sorry, but this is a silly comment. If the world is moving toward electric or hybrid vehicles, there are few ways to push the pace of development than in formula one. It's not trying to reduce their impact. It's incentivising engine manufacturers to stay in the sport rather than getting dropped for being a fossil.

 

If you take a look at how the PUs, and in particular, the batteries, MGU-H and MHU-K units have developed in the shorty time they've been part of F1, you'll see why.

 

The times are moving along. We can't stay stuck in the stone ages forever man.

[MORNE]

Sorry, but this is a silly comment. If the world is moving toward electric or hybrid vehicles, there are few ways to push the pace of development than in formula one. It's not trying to reduce their impact. It's incentivising engine manufacturers to stay in the sport rather than getting dropped for being a fossil.

 

If you take a look at how the PUs, and in particular, the batteries, MGU-H and MHU-K units have developed in the shorty time they've been part of F1, you'll see why.

 

The times are moving along. We can't stay stuck in the stone ages forever man.

not really what i'm getting at. All i'm saying is they drive efficiency on the surface for marketing reasons and that is what gets sold.

Sure the tech is amazing and is where it is now due the reasons you state...but that was a byproduct due to competition within a set of rules over the past 6 years....not because they 'wanted' to save the world from the get go. Goal nr 1 is to be cross the finish line the fastest and in p1 and get all your brands on TV. now its who can get there the most efficiently...annoying in f1 because it never was an endurance championship. but alas.

They just want to beat the next team and then print in a marketing brochure the next day that their cars are better than brand XYZ because of the reasons ABC. Win on Sunday..sell on Monday.

It is common knowledge that F1 is not really considered an engineering exercise anymore, rather a marketing one. id consider the WEC environment a better engineering exercise for road relevance. 

 But due to its global stage, f1 is a marketers orgy. The rest is secondary....ask a certain drinks company.

They dont build cars do they? They couldn't care less about hybrid tech and kinetic or heat energy harvesting. They are there to sell caffeinated drinks. 

If it didnt make commercial sense for them to be there, they would leave. They couldn't care what tech rules were....they just want a set of rules so they can build a good car and plaster it in red bull logos.

 

What we see on tv is 10%. what i'm implying is that the other 90% that makes it happen will make a far bigger difference than saving a 100kg of fuel per car per race.

 

F1 is a fossil already. motorsport is dying a slow death.

 

anyway...off topic.

thanks though...nice to see a fellow motorsport fan on a bicycle forum lol.

[Jimmy 2.0]

Im too lazy to read everything but "zero emissions" but yet again he will have to find a plug to charge his batteries 

[Shebeen]

That Greta Thunberg story is just about publicity. Just flying back the crew will generate more carbon emission than her and her dad having flown there in the first place.

 

Of course flying there quietly wouldnt have received any publicity...

That's not really been contested.

25+ years on from the Rio summit we are still mainly pretending like it's ok to be business as usual.

 

A 16year old telling the adults it's not cool is very much publicity, and very much needed.

I see a similar message coming out of this trip, and you don't measure the carbon cost of the trip, you measure what the awareness creates.

[Shebeen]

Im too lazy to read everything but "zero emissions" but yet again he will have to find a plug to charge his batteries 

and the ELandy too - one 300W panel on the roof is not going to get that moving far!