During my recent week in the Swiss Alps a couple of events crossed over with us that saw some pretty cool bikes coming through. All E-Bike but riggged up with what looked to be very home 'bodged' on the go charging via solar panel set ups. I took a few pics and thought some might find these of interest,
Firstly, the map of the event that they were on, there was a good 2 - 3 days of bike flowing through so it looked like a pretty relaxed event
Some of the bikes
A Velomobile with a trailer that carried the solar panel and the rider was sleeping in
This was trike was probably one of the tidiest as far as set up went.
These seemed to be a reasonably popular set up. A hybrid/mountain bike with attached trailer carrying the solar panel
I wouldn't particularly fancy riding either of these next 2, those panels seem to be very high up with the ability to act as a sail, in a bad way!
There was also a team of 6 people who were all cancer survivors and were doing a similar route on similar equipment but not related. They were sharing shifts on this set up in teams of 2. The back trike hooked on to a QR type mount and they could unhitch it to let it ride as 2 single trikes if desired.