World's fastest all-electric motorbike

[Waxxa]

check this out...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/27/alternativeenergy-travelandtransport

[slofox]

I fear that the lack of exhaust note might have the effect of reducing the fannymagnetic properties of motorcycles...........:shit:

http://motortorque.askaprice.com/news/auto-0809/women-are-physically-aroused-by-sound-of-maserati.asp

[imne1]

damn thats cool, zero CCs so could be ridden on a learners.
"The TTX01's design also allows for a small electric motor to be attached to the front wheel." hell, why not just make it fulltime two-wheel drive?

[vtec]

Driving the front wheel of a motorbike is entirely unnecessary and will unsettle the handling of a motorcycle in corners. When under acceleration there is hardly any weight on the front wheel and thus it doesn't need any power, it's all on the back wheel where the power is.

Likewise you hardly need to touch the rear brakes when braking hard because all the weight is on the front wheel.

And VFRman, they were only claiming that it was the fastest "electric" motorcycle. It is quite obviously slower than combustion motorcycles and with a 75kg battery, probably at least as heavy. And their quoted 80hp being equivalent to a 600cc racebike, well maybe in terms of average power output over a selected range of the revs, but 600 race bikes put out up to 130hp at the wheel Or about 150-160hp at the crank.

Cool idea. 50 mile range is sweet. How much do the batteries cost and what's the lifetime on them?

Also, I thought it looked remarkably like a k1-2-3 GSXR 600 with a crappy paintjob. Still love the idea, and I hope it gets traction.

[imdying]

I bet there's 2 wheeled applications where front wheel drive would be sweet, not everything is a sportsbike going around a track (although I'm not totally confident that even in that environment there aren't potential gains). As with the rear brake on normal bikes, even though it's not doing a lot of the slowing down, it does alter the chassis dynamics in subtle but beneficial ways in certain circumstances, it seems likely that having front drive would also yeild some gains too.

Perhaps wet weather / unstable road surfaces for a start?

[Badjelly]

Re 2-wheel drive on bikes, I am working my way through the James Deuce Memorial Magazine Collection and have just been looking at Two Wheels for August 2004. This describes a Yamaha enduro bike with drive to the front wheel via a flexible shaft (I think, or was it hydraulic?). They claim big advantages in traction and balance on loose surfaces. The downside is the need to rebuild the front-drive system after after every few hours of operation. That and $10,000 extra on the purchase price.

[imdying]

I think Yamaha did experiment with hydraulic front drive, including an R1 iirc.

[-df-]

I bet there's 2 wheeled applications where front wheel drive would be sweet


Re 2-wheel drive on bikes, I am working my way through the James Deuce Memorial Magazine Collection and have just been looking at Two Wheels for August 2004. This describes a Yamaha enduro bike with drive to the front wheel via a flexible shaft (I think, or was it hydraulic?). They claim big advantages in traction and balance on loose surfaces. The downside is the need to rebuild the front-drive system after after every few hours of operation. That and $10,000 extra on the purchase price.

http://www.christini.com/

Would love one of those.

EDIT: this ones supposed to remove the reliability problems yamaha had

[vifferman]

I am working my way through the James Deuce Memorial Magazine Collection
Say, wha...?!?
James Deuce is dead ?
Did you kill the poor bloke?

[Badjelly]

Say, wha...?!? James Deuce is dead? Did you kill the poor bloke?

There have been times...

That was an allusion (and I don't get to use that word very often!) to the Jim2 Memorial Bike Park:

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showpost.php?p=1440160

and to the fact that I took away a big pile of magazines from J2/JD a few months ago:

http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/showpost.php?p=1705300&postcount=20

PS: I'm happy to pass them on to anyone else who wants them, but at the moment each one is going into the recycling bin when I've read it. I'm about 20% of the way through.

[wbks]

Re 2-wheel drive on bikes, I am working my way through the James Deuce Memorial Magazine Collection and have just been looking at Two Wheels for August 2004. This describes a Yamaha enduro bike with drive to the front wheel via a flexible shaft (I think, or was it hydraulic?). They claim big advantages in traction and balance on loose surfaces. The downside is the need to rebuild the front-drive system after after every few hours of operation. That and $10,000 extra on the purchase price.Yea I'm pretty sure it was a WR450F with the Hydraulic drive front wheel and I actually think they complimented how little the front wheel washed out even when they tried to make it. The R1 like imdying (what an emo-:sunny:) mentioned must have been straaaange to ride...