Been waiting for a decent electric motorbike for a while.
One of the big problems is the battery weight. In a car you can have it very low which makes for excellent handling; on a bike the 'obvious' place is the fuel tank which leads to a very strange balance.
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da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Tue 14 Feb 2017, 23:11,
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I want one.
I was looking at trials bikes. Without the noise and fuel, these are appealing. Brakes on the bars. I guess they don't have a clutch either.
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cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 0:43,
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I think that absolute weight is more of a problem than where it is
The TT Zero bikes I've seen have the battery replacing the engine and fuel tank, and the record average lap speed is 119mph vs. the overall record of 134mph so they aren't too shabby at going round corners!
The Mugen TT Zero bike weighs 250kg though - I can't help thinking that the current battery technology is still going to mean a very heavy bike if it's going to have decent range.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 7:33,
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My Honda VFR weighs about 230kg.
Except when I dropped it on ice once and found it actually weighs 16.4 metric tonnes.
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da5id <YOUR SIG HERE>, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 8:06,
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Went to Marvel Universe Live
with the boy the other week and wondered why we weren't deafened by the sound and gassed by the fumes of the stunt bikes. This explains it.
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shitkicker, Wed 15 Feb 2017, 10:14,
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