Would you buy an electric bike?

[Toaster]

forget the prius, look at the tesla

0-100 in 3.9 seconds (whats the 'busa, about 3.5? this is a car remember!)
300 ft-lb of torque 100% of the time (from 0 rpm)

and it certainly aint ugly........

http://www.teslamotors.com/

wouldn't you consider an electric bike if it could run a 1/4 mile 2-3 seconds faster than the bike you ride now? or would you you be happy letting all the young 'uns on there top o' the line lecky's laughing at that slow old man on his geriatric hayabusa?

A Busa is faster than that on 0-100km/h.

If they bring out bikes that can beat a Hayabusa over a 1/4 mile by 2 to 3 seconds as you say, I will eat my hat*.



*hat is defined as a chocolate hat, er, cake.

[Toaster]

I digress. If the electricity comes from a Coal Fired Power Station... Well, there is no advantage.

Quite correct. Many non-renewable energy sources pollute like mad and use too much energy to produce the electricity than is either economically or environmentally sensible, especially in the case of producing bio-fuels. There is a lot of work going into wind and wave electricity development and generation. Why they want to build a gas fired powerstation the size of Huntly near Helensville on SH16 is beyond me.

[davereid]

Quite correct. Many non-renewable energy sources pollute like mad and use too much energy to produce the electricity than is either economically or environmentally sensible, especially in the case of producing bio-fuels. There is a lot of work going into wind and wave electricity development and generation. Why they want to build a gas fired powerstation the size of Huntly near Helensville on SH16 is beyond me.

I hope they don't start using wave generation. The sea and coastline will end up cluttered with generation equipment.

IMHO, N.Z. has more than 500 years of coal reserves. We should build and operate the cleanest coal fired stations we can, as a temporary alternative to filling the sea and hills with windmills, and flooding all our valleys for Hydro.

Clean, safe, nuclear fusion is on the way - its going to be available within a few decades, and will offer safe. clean and renewable energy. We should resist destroying our environment with the current crop of "renewable" energies when we can just patch the gap with coal in the meantime.

Electric vehicles ?

Here in NZ, some world leading research into super conductors is being done. The super conductor, and its stable mate, the super insulator, may lead to the super capacitor. This is the invention required to make electric vehicles practical. Until then, battery technology will limit them to being short range, low power devices.

I also think that until we get cheap electricity from nuclear fusion, that we should just use the fossil fuels. Technology will solve the problem of fossil fuel depletion long before it becomes an issue.

[bogan]

pffft, fuck buying one, I'm building one hoping to start testing it this month too.

But yeh, would buy one as a second bike when they start making good ones (though by then it'll probly be my twenty second bike!)

[avgas]

A Busa is faster than that on 0-100km/h.
If they bring out bikes that can beat a Hayabusa over a 1/4 mile by 2 to 3 seconds as you say, I will eat my hat*.
*hat is defined as a chocolate hat, er, cake.

They have done same 1/4. Worth googling.
But if your want 2-3 faster than stock busa, you are talking 7 seconds. Which is 400+hp methanol bike range.
So your expectation is a little out of reach from the us folk in the real world.

[avgas]

petrol motorcycles are still common in 2018

Your argument is flawed - apparently "Guns and Roses" songs and Ghetto blasters are also common.

[FlangMasterJ]

If I had the bunce.

[blackdog]

A Busa is faster than that on 0-100km/h.

If they bring out bikes that can beat a Hayabusa over a 1/4 mile by 2 to 3 seconds as you say, I will eat my hat*.



*hat is defined as a chocolate hat, er, cake.

lol prepare for chocolate rush

an electric bike out-performing the 'busa is inevitable, and in the not too distant future

[DougB]

I helped to build an electric bike back in the 1980's. We used an old LE vellocette, the water cooled machines used by the British Police. They had twin opposed motors with shaft drive. We removed the motor, fitted a electric motor in its place and used the built on pannier boxes to hold the batterys. Had to alter the angle of the front forks a bit to fit the motor. It went alright but as with all electric vehicles built then the heavy lead acid batteries made them impractical for general use. Now with the new lighter and better batteries electric bikes could be made to work well.

[Brian d marge]

Another thing they are just so quiet , really is nice not to hear traffic noise in a big city
all the boy racers will be fitting playing cards to the spokes , as big exhaust ,,,just ,,,no point !

Bikie gangs will be a thing of the past , no more Thunder down under , more like a wine in Wiapara

Loud pipe save lives ,,,,,, umm that ain't going to work either

Looks like Ill be keeping me enfield and using me electric scooter for a daily run about

be nice if they did an electric Bergman or silver wing

Stephen

[bogan]

Another thing they are just so quiet , really is nice not to hear traffic noise in a big city
all the boy racers will be fitting playing cards to the spokes , as big exhaust ,,,just ,,,no point !

Bikie gangs will be a thing of the past , no more Thunder down under , more like a wine in Wiapara

Loud pipe save lives ,,,,,, umm that ain't going to work either

Looks like Ill be keeping me enfield and using me electric scooter for a daily run about

be nice if they did an electric Bergman or silver wing

Stephen

I dunno, mine makes a shitload of chain noise, and will be trying to program a nice electric whine into it too :P Usually one of the design points of having electric is that it is quiet, if that ain't a design point you can make them make a bit of noise, no nice burble at idle though

[blackdog]

I dunno, mine makes a shitload of chain noise, and will be trying to program a nice electric whine into it too :P Usually one of the design points of having electric is that it is quiet, if that ain't a design point you can make them make a bit of noise, no nice burble at idle though

mmm something like a nice supercharger sounding whine actually kinda appeals

[mashman]

I think I could be tempted...

[oldguy]

Would I buy an electric Bike Hell No

Long live Fossil Fuel