January 28, 2022

Our bike in detail

Building a solarbike that is able to get us trough all kinds of terrain and weather on a more than 20'000 km journey must be planed accurately. In the following sections I will guide you through our decision process regarding the components. Caution: It is detailed and nerdy so if you don’t care too much about the reasons why we use these parts and just want to know the stats the table below shows the most important informations.

January 24, 2022

How It Started

Zurich to Zurich - how it all started One day the youtube algorithm suggested Johannes a video of a guy cycling from France to China on an electric bike. The bike was powered by solarpanels mounted on a trailer that harvest enough energy to increase the possible daily range of a touring bike easily by a factor of two to three. “If France to China in two months is possible with such a bike, one should be able to make it around the globe in six”