Corn Mazes and Electric Bikes

Friday, we got to checkout a somewhat homebrew E-bike build by this lady who does public relations for the college of engineering. She isn't an engineer but she read a bunch about e-bikes and kind of pieced this bike frame, hub motor and battery setup together. She had someone build a custom battery box for it and filled it with lithium iron batteries which is sweet. The lady was pretty well informed, I was pretty impressed to hear her talk about it and she even reads endless-sphere.com where all the cool e-bike kids are. The best part was that we got to ride it which was VERY cool. I'm actually a pretty big e-bike fan but I've never gotten to ride one.... hey do you know anyone with an E-bike? Exactly. The acceleration was great, the brakes seemed to be a little under sized though. The controller even has a regenerative brake activated by a button but it doesn't really load the motor much and doesn't slow you down that fast. Overall though, it was awesome and made me want to build awesome electric vehicles even more. 

So this weekend we made a trip to Treworgy Orchards in Levant which is like a half hr ride from Milford. They have an amazing corn maze that is huge and awesome and shaped like a turkey. It was sweet, all of my roommates went and some of their associated women folk. There are these stations you have to find in the maze and they have a name and a location on them, you mark it down on your map and try to figure out this politically correct version of Clue. Anyways, Chris and I started zipping through the maze and in our haste forgot to write down the location and only marked down the names of the people.... we felt pretty stupid but it was awesome. At the end of the maze you get an ice cream too, nice! Oh, we picked apples too. Zach's girlfriend (left) made apple crisp, chicken pot pie and M&M cookies for us. She is excellent. 

Couples Picture

Had a beer with Richard Qualey (yes that guy from 1st year who lived with Toby and left at christmas time) last night which was cool. We had some folks over last night, including one dog. I'll just leave this progression of photos here....