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The Electric Motorcycle Thread

Frame Maker said:
t. I spend 4 years working on electric scooters and skateboards and we had more firmware engineers than mechanical and electrical engineers combined.
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Boosted boards?

I met those guys down at the Techshop in SJ before they launched on KS.

Got a chance to test ride the prototypes.


Julian, what is that bike in your avatar?
I think I asked before, but I forgot....
 
Frame Maker said:
I've been following some of the discussion and was curious how these small emotos would handle rough technical terrain? I guess not so well? I ride a lot of very steep technical trails (think upper Grizzly trail at Carnegie) and was thinking maybe someday going electric. But short of the now-not-available Alta's I haven't seen anything capable for this type of terrain. Do you think the SurRon could handle rough terrain with some suspension tuning? Just curious.
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have you checked out the electric motion bikes?
 
R3DS!X said:
The first Zero chassis was complete garbage.
The one on the FX is okay...
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One of my current co-works worked at Zero not too long ago. He's a serious dirt rider and we've ridden together so he knows my ability. I just asked him about the ZERO FX. He said I wouldn't like it. Too heavy and only 8 inches of rear travel. He mentioned modifying one with modern MX forks, but there was no (easy) way to improve the rear.

sk8norcal said:
Boosted boards?

I met those guys down at the Techshop in SJ before they launched on KS.

Got a chance to test ride the prototypes.


Julian, what is that bike in your avatar?
I think I asked before, but I forgot....
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Yep, I was with Boosted for 4 years. It was one of best places I've worked in my career. It was a shame to see the scooter venture kill the company.

I'll post a few pictures of the bike in my avatar below.

sk8norcal said:
have you checked out the electric motion bikes?
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I don't know Electric Motion. I'll take a look when I have time.


This is the bike in my avatar:

FFE/RZ350 Thunderhill Raceway by andbike, on Flickr

FFE350 by andbike, on Flickr

and how it looks now:

20150501_202647 by andbike, on Flickr
 
thx, amazing construction!

yeah, i should have went to work for boosted when Matt asked me. It looked like a great place to work.

it's funny how big the standup scooters have gotten. I was talking to Matt back then, and he had strong interest in last mile transportation, and I told him stand up scooters are the obvious choice (since e-boards have a learning curve and just too dangerous), but I never saw the scooter share idea coming.

my old stand up scoot from the lead battery era... I think Matt rode it before...

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Frame Maker said:
I've been following some of the discussion and was curious how these small emotos would handle rough technical terrain? I guess not so well? I ride a lot of very steep technical trails (think upper Grizzly trail at Carnegie) and was thinking maybe someday going electric. But short of the now-not-available Alta's I haven't seen anything capable for this type of terrain. Do you think the SurRon could handle rough terrain with some suspension tuning? Just curious.
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For rough terrain well it's rough. The 19" wheels beat you up when the trail gets rough. That's why I'm trying to fit a 21" front. If the trail is smooth it's fine. The bike is so light like 150lbs its like a mountain bike on crack. I wouldn't hesitate to ride it on the hardest of trails it's a single track weapon too. A stock light bee has trouble climbing hills but a modified on will rip up it no problem.

Here's some race footage the harder you ride the bike the more it'll beat you up.. That's the nature of a minibike I guess. I've gotten used to riding minibikes.

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This is when the bike was stock power
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It's great for riding through rock gardens, the instant torque, no clutch, no stalling!
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HadesOmega said:
It's great for riding through rock gardens, the instant torque, no clutch, no stalling!
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Merlin, do you have footage of you at Metcalf going through Sandy hill, High Chapparel, or the end of Serpentine along the fenceline?

Is it possible to ride up the Mariposa Ridge trail hill climb?
 
Hmm Serpentine is here, the Light Bee has a hard time getting up the hill at the end you really gotta carry your momentum, it get's down that scary drop no problem though :). Oh yeah it's really loose too I was running those freakin Shinko Trials tires no traction in the loose stuff. I can't wait to race this event again, the Light Bee has come a long way since then.
https://youtu.be/1Xru9svVIQ8?t=292
 
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Hmm interesting 4000WH and 100V!? That thing should rip. Too bad she didn't open it up more. It's an interesting design haha I thought my Light Bee was sketchy.

You know what the riding position reminds me of is this. If they make a scaled up version it would practically be the Akira bike. The Akira bike was supposedly 2WD also.
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i cant watch any of her videos, they are so cringy.
 
sk8norcal said:
:laughing

Boobs
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soapbox

I can't take vloggers like that seriously, no matter how good the "technical" quality is. The topical content should speak for itself - the effort to showcase the massive mammaries in that vid is as cringeworthy as it was distracting. It's a depressing asspect of us smart apes; the ease in which an attractive woman can garner followers... a hot, mediocre vlogger will almost always gain much more popularity and clout versus "plain"-looking-but-excellent vloggers. It makes the guy who pretended to be a cute female moto-vlogger all the more hilarious

The man with the shoulder-length hair said the ‘beautifying’ process as enjoyable as it increased the number of likes on his social media. Adding that no one wants to see an uncle on a bike, he posed as a girl for fun at first but saw that 1,000 followed him.
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/soapbox :laughing

Yea, I'm just jealous that I'm not hot. Or have any followers. :teeth
 
Good luck to Shea Nyquist and his electric streamliner at Bonneville
He's from Morgan Hill.

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