the point of a project you say, you've lost me there! In my experience theres very little correlation between doing a project, and it having a point. I just did it cos I wanted to mess round with EV tech.
the point of a project you say, you've lost me there! In my experience theres very little correlation between doing a project, and it having a point. I just did it cos I wanted to mess round with EV tech.
I'm sure most inventors and explorers got asked.... why? Because I wanted to see what it would do, what would happen, what was on the other side, because it was there.... the answer is, why not?
Good on you for tinkering...... isn't that part of bucket building? Oh that's right, FXRs don't need to be (really shouldn't be) "tinkered" with![]()
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[QUOTE=bucketracer;1129612030]Show me where in the rules it says that the F4/F5 motor must actually be propelling you at the time of the race.
Another possibility is to use the electric motor as a break entering the corners by storing energy in a big capacitor which can then be dumped back into the motor on the next straight giving the bike a super burst of acceleration.
That is the now defunct KERS system they were using in F1 up to the end of last year. They don't use it anymore so make 'em an offer.
Bogan, if they won't let us race as a bucket, then I say we just start our own class. I'd race ya if you can get your bike down to chch...
This is my bike here, based on an RG150. I've got up to 110 km/hr out the back of the Christchurch airport, so sounds like I've got the top end to race a bucket.
http://bvt.co.nz/developmentlabs.htm
I'l be very interested to see if you do get it on the track, I'm planning to do similar down this way.
sounds like Ill be the one interested to see if your bike makes it onto the track first! Havent been able to work on mine for a while as we had to move flats, landy told us we had to get out the day after i unpacked my electric bike gear to work on it, hoping to get into the new flat and resume work on it next week though.
so thats 2
this is starting to get interesting
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I see one of the electric bikes is 3kw, a good bucket is 10-12kw or more, interesting project though.
Legend tells of a strange feathered beast stalking the land & eating stupid people whilst they sleep.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
Yah, my bike has a motor that's specced for 3kW continuous operation.
But that's a spec for a stationary motor and running 24/7. Motor can handle about 10 times that power for short periods of time and mounted on a motorcycle with plenty of air cooling. At the moment my batteries limit me to a technical figure of 14.4 kW. Not sure what actual output is though, that's why it'd be so interesting to compare to a bucket which, on paper, should have similar performance.
Theoretically if weight isn't too much electric bike should launch starts pretty well.
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