sting32 Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 WOW! http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/10/...ric-enduro.html This will be nice think of all those times the noise those guys usually make, closed everything down you used to ride... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 Wow, 40 minutes of riding and 1 hour to charge. How fantastic to have a zero emmissions race, no noise, no polotution - well apart from the paddock full of Generators running flat out trying to charge all the batteries up before the next race !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benj Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 well said steve, how is this bike better for the environment, the modern bikes are going fuel injected for better fuel economy and power, the generators that will be running are hardly tuned in the same way, part of my passion for bikes is the noise and smell, with out them i'd feel like a an ajile pensioner brain washed by the governments advisors that convise me im doing the right thing. in the greater scheme of things i guess that all off road bikes a yein brittan probably expell no more emissions than a ocean tanker transporting them here in one trip (dont quote me) so why not put the technology into clean energy like putting sails on the ships like they used to. i think the only people these bikes will benefit is learner riders and theifs who will find it easier to steal one, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frontroomautos Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 I've said it before and i'll say it again. There was never a problem in burning fossil fuels until the planet slowly multiplied its population until it IS six times what it can sustain. Anyway I don't want to bang on about politics i am sure no one is interested until its all too late (which it is now). Electric bikes....????I'd rather ride a mountain bike....when that day arives i'm throwing it all in....but i'm sure some will say i am negative and green is the future...there is no future unless the planet has at least -4 times its population on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulthistle Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 (edited) Too Late! to late for what? We were just having some luck at "population control". When the stupid president stepped in and started attaching names to the population control teams. Electric is no better unless you use a wind charger (green wise). But they are quieter. I don't think they'll be "all that" until they put a clutch on them. And a speaker, then we can program our favorite two stroke bike sound into it. Edited October 22, 2008 by paul_thistle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axulsuv Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 Or you could just use the tried & tested Card with clothespin method of hi-tech sound effects ... Glenn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brian r Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 The only way to save the planet is to kill all the humans! WAIT, I'm a human, oh shoot! Scratch that kill the humans thing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan williams Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 As George Carlin said, "Save the planet? If the planet wants to get rid of us it will flick us off like a bad case of fleas!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulthistle Posted October 22, 2008 Report Share Posted October 22, 2008 I always thought we were one super volcano eruption away from extinction. One huge solar flare, or one stray asteroid. Go Green? yeah that should do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hop_sing Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 Don't Laugh, At my last event I got beat by an electric bike. I had 5 more points{stalled motor} than him. See he never gets a 5 for a stalled motor. Its an advantage for him. He charges his batteries while he is riding the next loop. he has two sets of batteries. all you hear is chain noise. the clutch thing is his next challange. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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