{"id":109,"date":"2007-02-26T03:43:44","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T22:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveandyvonne.com\/davintosh\/?p=109"},"modified":"2007-02-26T03:43:44","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T22:13:44","slug":"the-go-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/26\/the-go-hub\/fun\/","title":{"rendered":"The Go-Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveandyvonne.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/gohub.jpg\" title=\"gohub.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveandyvonne.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/gohub.jpg?resize=257%2C257\" alt=\"gohub.jpg\" height=\"257\" width=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love bikes, and love to ride them. But the trouble with bicycling as a means of everyday transportation is that it takes serious work to get somewhere in a decent amount of time. That serious work makes one sweat, and while I don&#8217;t have a problem with sweating per se, there are times when sweating is just not&#8230; nice. I don&#8217;t know about you but I don&#8217;t like smelling myself all day after biking to work, and I&#8217;m sure others don&#8217;t appreciate it either.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;d really like to get one of these; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evdeals.com\/Go-Hub.htm\">Go-Hub<\/a> electric motor. It&#8217;s a motorized assist to make the ride easier&#8230; To flatten the hills and make the ride to work (or wherever) much less strenuous (and make me easier to be around throughout the day.) And for the ride home, I&#8217;d be free to use it or not; get some exercise or get there fast. While I&#8217;m not a treehugger by any stretch of the imagination, I still have a difficult time with the concept of driving 2,000-plus pounds of metal just to get my sorry butt to where I need to go. Most of my trips around town are just me in the car, and if I could do it without having to pay for the gas, all the better.<\/p>\n<p>The Go-Hub is essentially an electric motor built into the hub of a front wheel. It <a href=\"http:\/\/largoscooters.com\/go-hubkits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sells for<\/a> about $550, and comes with the battery pack, throttle, etc&#8230; The price sounds a bit steep, but considering that I&#8217;d be able to get by without buying gas for weeks in a stretch, I think it&#8217;d be worthwhile. The batteries give it a range of 25-30 miles, and recharge via 110V AC in a matter of a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>Now to convince the Chief Financial Officer that this would be a good idea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love bikes, and love to ride them. But the trouble with bicycling as a means of everyday transportation is that it takes serious work to get somewhere in a decent amount of time. That serious work makes one sweat, and while I don&#8217;t have a problem with sweating per se, there are times when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-technology","category-fun"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davintosh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}