Way cool! Want to produce some pedal power for a free meal?

[shootingstar]

As some of you may know, some bikes already have a built-in pedal powered lighting system for back and front. Some Dahon folding bikes offer this.

But it would be fantastic to have a lightweight battery storage system for our pedal powering for any type of ride that we do and use that saved power for other things off-bike also.

Or hey, at least power up the helmet webcam! Or our digital camera on hand.

So many useful small-scale applications for cyclists.

[GLC1968]

We have been tossing around the idea of hooking up one of our bikes to our grain mill. The mill is electric, but it also has a hand-crank option. The hand-crank is physically very HARD...so with a few pulleys, we could do it by bike easy enough.

From there we could charge up batteries or other items...or even crank the agitator on a washing machine....

Some day, anyway.

ETA - our first order of business would be to hook the cream separator to the bike. It would be much easier to maintain a constant speed using a bike than cranking by hand (I would imagine).