Electric Triumph

Shame about the massive looking clear bit on the faring.
http://tinyurl.com/2dwku9

Under 10 minute recharge apparently. Only 93 mph top speed though, but
2.7 second 0 to 60, which is respectable.

 

Angle grinder would soon sort that out.


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Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

An electric powered one.

 

That's the best bit, stops a gentleman getting his fucked up by the
draft.

 

I read that and had to double-check it wasn't BGN posting.

 

Nah, I'm not a fag but today's been such a righteous one I could quite
possibly **** a bloke just because I've been so good today.

 

Where the **** do they get a price of 77K for that? It's the kind of
thing that could be knocked up in a garden shed for relative peanuts.
Looking at the unfaired pic, the battery isn't huge; even building a
special lithium-ion battery bank wouldn't be a ballbreaker and the motor
probably has nothing particularly new about it. Control systems
shouldn't really present much of a problem either.

Another thing; if they're buying in new Daytonas to build upon, the sale
of the engines would recover a large lump of costs.
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Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

Yeh. 77K dollars is a lot for an electric bike. It's all going to be off
the shelf stuff, which isn't going to cost half that. Imho. Nice idea
though.

There is a bloke that did an electric conversion on a Derby 50 race rep
of some sort. It's only got lead acid cells in it, but goes about 75
mph... which is ok.

 

Heh, fucking madness.

<looks at contents of shed>
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Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

I spotted it on YouTube. Here in fact http://tinyurl.com/yreatp if you
search for electric motorcycle quite a few pop up.

 

Even something for Platy and that dustbin fairing...
http://electricmotorcycles.net/modules/wordpress/?p=237#more-237
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Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

 

Looking into it a bit more, it seems a pallet truck motor is a good
starting point - a few LA glass mat batteries (although Li-ion would be
preferable, but pricier) and you're hot to trot.

Actually, the idea starts to appeal more and more...
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Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.