Sunday, April 19th

Eli and I are ready for this week. We met today at Carribou coffee to make plans for what exactly we want to do this week. We originally planned to try out the gas bike today, but Patrick was out of town, and returns late tonight. So, instead we made somewhat of a schedule for the week. Some major things we want to accomplish this week are both efficiency testing as well as filming a commercial for the bicycles. We plan to go to piedmont park tomorrow and ride the bikes around to get a grip on things. We want to make sure they work fine, and want to see how they fare in the turain of Piedmont park. Also, we plan to actually ride our bikes to Lovett this week. We want to do this to show that the bikes are capable of getting someone to school/work in a timely fashion. We are going to be recording how much energy/fuel we use and analyze the costs of each one to show that it is cheaper to ride one of our bikes instead of driving a car. All in all, it should be a really fun week filled with lots of information. The part of the week we are perhaps most excited for is the Earth Day outdoor bar b q where we plan to showcase our bikes. We are both excited to finally wrap up our senior project, and hope this week goes according to plan. If all goes well, we should finish up our week ready to present to the school as well as the senior project committee.