Hardcore Biker
I reckon this signals the beginning of a very interesting time for bike racing.
The 2014 Southern 100 (road race on Isle of Man) will see an electric bike running head-to-head against internal combustion in the standard competition.
- http://www.asphaltandrubber.com/raci...-southern-100/Originally Posted by Asphalt & Rubber
- http://darvillracing.co.uk/
I haven't been this excited about electric tech since the Saudi's replaced their child camel jockeys with robots.
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Lol. This will end well. Are they bringing 80cc two strokes back to compete against them?
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
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Neat! Bets on how long it'll be before the curmudgeonly blokes are all making excuses why the electrics are so quick but gas is still better?
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
Forum whore
Is Ed selling bikes yet ................
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If a vehicle isn't capable of producing consistent energy output across its projected range, then it is an irritating deviation of resources from actual progress. Battery technology is not the way of the future. Electric motive force is vastly better than an IC but batteries52 are not the way forward. There is no electric engined battery powered vehicle that I can use to commute the 76km (152km round trip) to work with a 12 hour tunraround, door to door, at an average speed of 60km/hr.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Hardcore Biker
not mention the upfront cost of batteries that have a decent output
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Hardcore Biker
160hp horsepower, 120 lbs•ft of torque across the rev range, and 17 kWh battery pack, which Mission says is good for a 200 mile range (140 mile real world) and a 150 mph top speed. With two on-board chargers (Level-2 J1772 and a standard 120v plug), Mission says it can pump up to 9 KW into the Mission RS, which should be good for close to a two-hour recharge time.
Buuuuuuut.... it's $59,0000 USD
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Hardcore Biker
I donīt think anyone can say battery technology isnīt the way forward - current technology say a Nissan leaf has a 24 kWh battery pack - the Petrol equivalent Nissan note has 270 kWh of energy in its fuel tank. I think its possible to one day make a 270 kWh battery pack that weighs the same as a 10 gallon fuel tank and could be swapped or dumped with charge within a few minutes. Maybe not with current battery technology, back in the 1900īs the first electric cars had only 2 kWh battery packs - maybe it will take another 100 years to do it but there is no evidence to say it cant be done.
I love the smell of twin V16's in the morning..
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Watch them cringe and back out of the deal when I show them the Rimutakas and typical commuter traffic.
Buuuuuuut.... it's $59,0000 USD
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Forum whore
Battery technology is horribly expensive and built on the back of 6 year olds digging rare earth elements out of clay with a teaspoon.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Hardcore Biker
Ethically speaking so is pretty much every single electronic device.
I love the smell of twin V16's in the morning..
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Which doesn't invalidate my point.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Hardcore Biker
Is that the only thing you have against battery power?
I love the smell of twin V16's in the morning..
Hardcore Biker
I agree, but I also don't think we want to get into scrutinising the ethical or social impact of any of our energy sources too much. If ethics was an issue I suspect there'd be relatively little oil available for the western world right now.
I think your moving against the flow of human nature James, for the exact reason that it can't yet be done, people will continue to push against and through those boundaries for electrical locomotion. What if the roads were paved in a semi conductive substance and some form of wireless energy transmission was possible?
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than one-and-a-half tonnes."
- Popular Mechanics, 1949
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Hehe, the curmudgeonly excuses didn't take long at all
The Tesla S has a range of around 500km by the way, pretty sure that'll be enough for a 150km commute over the rimutakas and back.
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
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