# Find Your Point: The eBike-Scooter Downwinder Loop

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**Created:** [May 13, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/find-your-point-the-ebike-scooter-downwinder-loop/10067 "2025-05-13T22:48:24Z")\
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This might be a Northern California thing — or ideally where foiling is headed.

For the past three months, I’ve been chasing a specific setup: a 2-mile solo “downwind” foil run powered entirely by swell, an eBike, and an electric scooter. I’ve now logged over 60 laps on the route between Mushroom Rock and Miramar in Half Moon Bay, CA since Feb 20th when I got the scooter.

The idea stems from the _No Wind Downwinder_ — a foil line that runs off a prominent point where northwest wind swell wraps, refracts, and transforms into long-period rollers. Thanks to the bathymetry at Pillar Point, energy from NW, W, and even SW swells gets fractured and redirected east and northeast along the jetty wall. The result? Nearly constant glideable swell.

Mornings can be glassy with 4–7 foot open ocean bumps. Afternoons sometimes improve with west or northwest winds, though side-shore NNW can make things trickier. Still, with winter delivering 6–10 foot swells at 10–14 seconds more than 90% of the time, there’s almost always energy to ride.

**The Loop:**

- Step 1: Load foil board and electric scooter on my eBike.
- Step 2: Park the scooter along the coastal trail in Miramar.
- Step 3: Ride the eBike to Mushroom Rock, paddle out.
- Step 4: Paddle up and ride 2 miles back to Miramar (ideally in one clean shot).
- Step 5: Stash the board, scooter back to Mushroom Rock.
- Step 6: Load the scooter on the eBike, return to grab the board, and head home.

Fastest lap time: 1 hour, 2 minutes. Average: around 1 hour, 20 minutes. Total transit distance 13 miles: 7 miles Bike, 3.5 miles Scooter, 2.5 miles Paddle and On Foil.

It’s a fully self-supported downwind loop — no cars, no shuttle crew, and no wind required. Just swell, bathymetry, and the right gear.

Maiden voyage below. Feb 20th, 2025 1 hour 15 minutes.

[![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/progressionproject/original/2X/9/9fe2ca6ea84b7b280bf36d91553b04ed6f05549d.jpeg "Half Moon Bay Downwinder Mushroom to Miramar") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE7IKV4876k)

 ![2025_04 Scooter Lap 02](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/progressionproject/original/2X/b/b11aa1529bda5274b767c2da1d8b9c854398f652.jpeg)

 ![2025_04 Scooter Lap 01](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/progressionproject/original/2X/0/0e5019969d32491647058d7f206074298584a40f.jpeg)

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