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- cyrusuncc, on 12/01/2008, -4/+32I can't wait until electric vehicles are actually cost effective to own
- AaronGNP, on 12/02/2008, -3/+23No carbon emissions? Where did the electricity come from to charge the bike's battery?
- AmyVernon, on 12/01/2008, -0/+15Has Louie Baur bought one yet?
- borez, on 12/02/2008, -0/+14125mph does not a superbike make.
- inactive, on 12/02/2008, -1/+15No Carbon Emissions!? On an electric bike? WTF, that's crazy and wonderful, because its all the motorcycles and their 55mpg that are polluting the environment.
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -2/+14That is what we called the Go Green superbike.
Thanks - vilago, on 12/02/2008, -0/+9they ARE cost effective. they just arent as available as gasoline/diesel vehicles because the oil industry and OEM's don't want you to own one.
- HeavySausage, on 12/02/2008, -0/+9God's breath.
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -1/+10They accidentally the paintjob
- LongShlong, on 12/02/2008, -6/+15Great; no carbon emissions... But how much was the Earth raped in creating the batteries? Copper mines ***** ***** up rather adequately. Isn't this whole 'going green' thing geared towards being slightly more frugal? Sitting on a green rice rocket... Meh... I'm done.
... It's like being happy about eating a low fat meal, not realizing they are packed with sodium (aka, you're arteries are going to clog, fatty). - russ3, on 12/02/2008, -1/+950 mile ride distance? 125 mph? That's a wild 24 minute ride
- doctechnical, on 12/02/2008, -2/+10Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
Unless you're connecting this thing up to a solar panel, wind turbine or reactor, there are carbon emissions. Just not at your tail pipe. - louiebaur, on 12/01/2008, -0/+7Hell no those things are to slow!
- wildest, on 12/01/2008, -2/+9Wowee wah wah an electric bike! This is cool!
- dballagh, on 12/01/2008, -1/+8Pretty cool bike. The battery technology is almost there, only needs to about triple the distance on a single charge to be truly useful.
- JonTheGoose, on 12/02/2008, -0/+7erm...this may just be semantics here but this should really be called the worlds fastest electric street bike. The worlds fastest electric bike is the Killacycle which can achieve speeds well over 155 mph. Granted it is most certainly not street legal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDHJNG2PngQ - pr3sidentspence, on 12/02/2008, -0/+7http://www.killacycle.com/ 174MPH. Not commercial. Title fail.
- HeavySausage, on 12/02/2008, -6/+13Doesn't it emit carbon at the powerplant where the bike gets the electricity instead? The story title seems inaccurate if you ask me.
- Korgmeister, on 12/02/2008, -2/+8THANK YOU! I am so tired of people saying that no tailpipe means no emissions.
Is the factory powered by fairy dust? The smelter? The mines? The refinery (where do you think plastic comes from).
Green technology is fine as well, but let's not delude ourselves into thinking it's something it isn't. - BlakeEM, on 12/02/2008, -1/+7It's crazy expensive. It makes no sound so people are more likely to run into you on the road. That isn't really that high of a top speed seeing as most decent bikes for 1/3rd that cost can go 170mph and still get good gas millage with far longer range.
- Curlz31, on 12/02/2008, -0/+5It's getting really smuggy in here.
- 1smartguy, on 12/02/2008, -0/+5Or geothermal, or hydroelectric, but even a coal fired plant can power multiple electric cars with a smaller carbon footprint than ICEs due to higher efficiencies one gets with economy of scale.
- Jareth86, on 12/02/2008, -1/+6Is it a coincidence that every single electric vehicle is produced in severely limited quantities and too expensive to buy, or is my tinfoil hat too tight?
- inactive, on 12/01/2008, -0/+5Who the hell is this Louie Baur guy I keep hearing about?
- Harbinger67, on 12/02/2008, -0/+5Slowest gixxer 750 on earth.
- ronintetsuro, on 12/02/2008, -0/+5Hear hear. Tired of the oppression of the intellectual in this country.
- lurrker, on 12/02/2008, -0/+4Right, and there are SOOO many motorcycles on the road, and everyone knows how to ride one (or even want to). Gezus, let a technology take off before you kill it. I don't hear anyone complaining about the millions of 11 hr/day semi-trucks on the highway belching up your unwanted carbon... because they get you your ***** when and where you want it. Why is it always all or nothing?
I have a class M license, I have an older ninja, this would be great in a few years. I don't ride more than 50 miles round trip anyway, and the limited range might just offset the amount of carbon that armchair environmentalists worry about. - rezist, on 12/02/2008, -0/+4Nice to see this. Although it's slow and can't really be ridden for long it's a start. It might make a good starter bike if it wasn't for the price tag.
- ReeferChiefer42, on 12/02/2008, -1/+5Anyone digging you down is a moron. 50 miles is nothing.
- cheezintern, on 12/02/2008, -7/+11with a range of 50 miles?.....I think I'll pass on this one.
- MikeFallopian, on 12/02/2008, -0/+4No one expects to make big profits now; batteries simply don't have high enough energy density. But a lot of companies are anticipating big breakthroughs in battery technology - nanowires for example hold a lot of promise. They figure, if they can get all of the design, manufacture, drivetrain efficiency, regeneration, etc. figured out now and get some name recognition, then they'll be very nicely leveraged to make bank when a better battery comes around. But that could be a decade away, so it's definitely a risk.
No conspiracy though. Energy density has been the bottleneck holding back electric cars for over 100 years. - honeybrass, on 12/02/2008, -0/+4Wowee wah wah, is the sound of an ordinary bike, electric would sound more like eeee eeeeeee eeeeeeeee!
- ZenMojo, on 12/02/2008, -1/+5Sodium doesn't clog your arteries. Metaphor phail.
- EnderMB, on 12/02/2008, -0/+41) When "Zero Emissions" means the entire manufacturing process, I'll believe it.
2) As far as I know the electricity that comes from my plug isn't zero emissions. That electricity is coming from somewhere and it isn't clean.
3) 125MPH != Superbike - cubicledrone, on 12/02/2008, -1/+5Oh please. We haven't built anything worth a scraped-out ***** in this country since the 1960s. You know, back when people had jobs and their bosses weren't whinging all day in the halls of Congress for a hand-out? Back then we invented ***** like the Interstate Highway system, the Apollo Program, Magnetic Imaging, UNIX and the Internet. Now all of our "big businesses" just bulldoze and fire their research departments because people doing research and actually building ***** won't hump Powerpoint five days a week.
Our private sector attracts the "best and brightest" from other countries because all the well-paid Americans were fired to free up the jobs (with a 30% pay cut slipped in there just in time), and our universities attract the "best and brightest" because someone else (probably a laid off American worker) subsidizes their tuition while that laid off American worker's neighbor pays full price and still has to work a minimum wage job between classes for some rectangle-head ***** boss who wants Mercedes work out of a Buick education.
As for the smartass remark about "lib art focused students," given the general illiteracy in this country probably the only thing that's going to save our ass is the fact the next generation MIGHT know how to read the instructions on how to un-***** this country after the rat ***** lying assbag hyper-capitalist douchecannons get through wiping their ass on the coffee table.
1960 America would kick seven shades of ***** out of 2008 America economically if they had our tools. Face it. Business in this country could suck the chrome off a 1956 Cadillac. - srfssm22, on 12/02/2008, -2/+6Also, the electricity used to charge the batteries is most likely coming from coal burning power plants, which is one of the dirtiest ways to produce energy. Electrical engines are efficient and are a huge step up from combustion engines but the electricity needs to be created from solar panels, wind turbines and nuclear power plants.
- cubicledrone, on 12/02/2008, -3/+7Oh look something cool is invented and all the pseudo-scientists start snort-laughing their way through the laws of thermodynamics and other off-topic *****. What you see here is the reason we never invent anything in this country. Because every step of the way there's a mass of HUHUHUHUHUHUH YOU CAN'T GET MORE ENERGY OUT THAN YOU PUT IN HUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUH *SNORT* HUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUH
In Japan, people gather around, nod appreciatively and then double the invention's efficiency and halve its cost. That's why Japan kicks our ass building cars, trains and pretty much anything else that requires a group of people to un-***** themselves and produce something besides ***** and carbon dioxide. - blankoboy, on 12/02/2008, -1/+5I imagine it is near silent as well....with a slight electric whirring sound. KANEDA!
- asdffdas1234, on 12/02/2008, -1/+5Do want
- avaugha4, on 12/02/2008, -0/+4You aren't yoda...
- slvrbullet87, on 12/02/2008, -0/+4for those who dont know motorcylces or sarcasm, here are the specs of an expensive crotch rocket. The Yamaha YZF R1
Top Speed: 190mph mph
Horse Power 180
price: $12,490
From: http://www.topspeed.com/motorcycles/motorcycle-rev ...
It should also be noted that most bikes get around 50mpg so gas price isnt a big deal - ronintetsuro, on 12/02/2008, -0/+3Typical dinosaur consumer thinking. "What? It's not everything I want and more right goddamn now? Then what's it worth?? IT WILL NEVER WORK. PUT A HEMI IN IT."
With new tech, you have to make steps to show there's a profit to be made and the science is viable. Then bigger players jump into the fray, generating more innovation and competition, driving down prices and widening the consumer side of the market to a larger share of the population, increasing profit, ect.
Basic. *****. Economics. All of you, read a book. - defektiv, on 12/02/2008, -0/+3But can the owner crash his electric bike like this guy? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZfueVHVnkI (fast forward to 3 minutes to start getting to the crash.)
- TheNakedChef, on 12/02/2008, -0/+3Lots of useless comments here from people that have never even touched a bike before.
The interesting bit is that it's 2 wheel drive, it has electric motors in front and rear wheels, it will change the bike dynamics a lot, also I think it will make the bike a lot harder to steer at high speeds, since there will be a lot higher gyroscopic effect on the front wheel.
I also wonder how it's going to effect the traction mid corner, since on a normal rear wheel powered sports bike, rear tyre has a lot more grip and at high speeds through corners the throttle is supposed to be rolled on in such a way that there's constant acceleration through the corner causing 40/60 weight distribution on front and rear wheel tyre. I think if someone rides it the same way, the front could lose traction resulting in low side.
Interesting bike and good to see some new development in bikes, it will be interesting to watch it Isle of Man. - vilago, on 12/02/2008, -0/+3why is he getting buried? seriously, cars emit MUCH more ***** in huge numbers in the USA than powerplants. in china maybe the plants outdo the cars.... but that's a whole other argument.
- inactive, on 12/02/2008, -0/+3Nuclear maybe. And even coal and oil based plants have gotten cleaner and are getting cleaner still.
- inactive, on 12/02/2008, -0/+3lightcycles
- NeoHomer, on 12/02/2008, -4/+7Um...125mph does not a 'super bike' make. Double that and your getting close.
50 mile distance on a charge??? Bwaahahahaha. Lameness squared.
For me to be interested in ANY alternative vehicle it must do 0-60 in less than 6 seconds, top out at at least 130mph AND run for at least 8 hours, just like my 'real' car.
Until then, it's all a lame waste of time. 'Green'?? Go look up what chemicals and heavy metals that are required for motors and batteries, oh and don't forget all the plastic which must come from OIL....no electric car is green, no way no how. - ronintetsuro, on 12/02/2008, -0/+3If you can go 125 for 24 minutes and not get stopped for speeding, I will offer you a tall glass of STFU.
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