A disturbance in the force there is.

Witty Name Here · January 11, 2011, 08:07:33 PM

News on this 2nd place against the twins has been going around. This is the first vid "I'VE" seen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RIMQ0c7JKIU#!

desmoquattro · January 11, 2011, 09:24:18 PM

Saw that on Google News and my jaw dropped...absolutely amazing. I love how he shot past the gas bikes comng in to the straight...instant torque!

pennyrobber · January 12, 2011, 06:17:11 AM

Kind of sounds evil in its own way. So, how do they regulate the electric bikes as far as weight/ max output to race in a certain class?

derby · January 12, 2011, 06:27:44 AM

Quote from: pennyrobber on January 12, 2011, 06:17:11 AM
Kind of sounds evil in its own way. So, how do they regulate the electric bikes as far as weight/ max output to race in a certain class?

here's the thread about the bike over on the wera forum. i'm not sure if he covers it here, but sean/mongo would be the person to ask.

http://forums.13x.com/showthread.php?t=276144

orangelion03 · January 12, 2011, 03:55:17 PM

Sounds like one of these!

http://www.smcars.net/forums/attachments/finished-work/18015d1141265138-star-wars-speederbike-biker-scout-002.jpg

zooom · January 12, 2011, 04:18:53 PM

makes me wonder what a racer, any racer, thinks when they get passed by that or anything like it...you get passed by a twin or a liter bike, you know what it is and why...THAT on the other hand...the sound and the look of THAT one...

MadDuck · January 18, 2011, 11:11:56 PM

Meh, it was all good stuff to me. The only real thing would be to calculate the classes so that you would have fairly even power to weight ratios. If you are racing, and otherwise, you are usually more in tune with your own machine's noise to really think about the noise, or lack of, from your fellow racer's rig.

desmoquattro · January 19, 2011, 06:55:51 AM

Quote from: mac900 on January 18, 2011, 11:11:56 PM
Meh, it was all good stuff to me. The only real thing would be to calculate the classes so that you would have fairly even power to weight ratios.

Should there not also be an energy density or distance capability calculation in there too? If an electric bike can go 7 laps at full bore, it might have an advantage over gas bikes. But if the race is 14 laps, does it even belong in the class?

derby · January 19, 2011, 07:22:13 AM

Quote from: mac900 on January 18, 2011, 11:11:56 PM
Meh, it was all good stuff to me. The only real thing would be to calculate the classes so that you would have fairly even power to weight ratios.

it's a little more complex than that. mongo does a decent job of performance indexing (where appropriate) the wera classes.

Monsterlover · January 21, 2011, 07:07:27 PM

silvy1200 · March 02, 2011, 10:28:36 PM

mitt · March 03, 2011, 06:00:56 AM

cool stuff

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