The Motorcycle of the Future Has Arrived (w/ PICS)

wired.com — This bike is bad-ass, no two ways about it. It has a custom-built 12.5-kilowatt-hour lithium polymer battery that can be swapped in seconds. The custom-built, oil-cooled motor generates 100 horsepower (continuous) and 250 pound-feet of torque. It all hangs from a custom frame. Of course, it?s got the usual top-shelf hardware... Jun 11, 2010 View in Crawl 4

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mantiskungfu Jun 11, 2010

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I thought the /s would be implied..

tgc1 Jun 12, 2010

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They don't suck at it, they just don't want to do it. They are simply appeasing regulators with the cars they do bring out. Otherwise they could build anything they want.

wageslave Jun 12, 2010

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@883XL: And a comparable new Harley costs about $24k.

883xl Jun 12, 2010

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Well my '04 sporty cost 6.1K OTD and my '09 Dyna cost 16K OTD.I don't know what a comparable Victory bike would be, but the Hammer is like 18K ( probably 20K OTD) o_______o

yzbot Jun 13, 2010

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It still doesn't make 100hp at 10rpm. There is a formula to figure it out. (torque in lb/ft x rpm) / 5252 = horsepower. (250 lb/ft * 10 rpm) / 5252 = 0.476 hp.The continuous 100hp refers to the fact that the motor can be run at its peak output continuously, not that it makes 100hp everywhere.

simg Jun 13, 2010

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I must be missing something, because the article says 100 horsepower ?

simg Jun 13, 2010

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not sure it's true that motors produce 100% of their torque all the time. AFAIK, electric motors generate "back emf" which means that as the RPM's increase the motor generates a reverse voltage which reduces the amount of current and therefore the power ...