Hydrogen motorcycle
March 15th, 2005 by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider"Just the other day I was wondering about this, suppose they came up with some new motorcycle engine that was completely silent or just gave off a little whine, would you still want to ride it? Well, here we have a hydrogen motorcycle with just that problem … or issue or whatever.
But therein lies the problem. British engineers who yesterday unveiled the prototype of the world’s first hydrogen-powered motorbike confessed they were considering adding an artificial “vroom” to the machine as they were worried its silence might be dangerous.
Technology is moving pretty fast these days. You never know what you’ll see tomorrow.
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March 15th, 2005 at 10:34 pm
This is a topic that come up from time to time in the electricmotorcycles.net forums. Well, until the forums went away. Guys game up with lots of creative ideas. One was to wire up a Basic Stamp into the potbox (the ‘throttle’). The BS could control a Quadravox loaded with sounds of your choice. This way, you could play different sounds depending on the throttle position. Toss in a Hall effect sensor and you could play different sounds based on your speed.
October 28th, 2005 at 12:52 pm
That bike looks really wierd and stupid it has no seat and it probably has very good mpg but no ones going to buy it because it doesnt even look like a motorcycle it looks lika childs toy
November 6th, 2005 at 10:41 pm
where would you get the hydrogen fuel and how much is it?
for the ENV
August 9th, 2006 at 9:47 pm
to Terry i say, not everyone out there needs their bike to look just the same as every other Tom, Dick and Harry’s. i for one would be thrilled to own a bike as revolutionary as this one. and besides the styles can and will change to take care of fashion, people, trends. so you too can have a emission neutral bike that looks just like what you have always ridden
August 23rd, 2006 at 1:54 am
This motorcycle will appeal to those who want to look radical yet contribute to world peace…it will be a cool and hip thing to own so you can make a global statement and still be an individual.
February 8th, 2007 at 7:52 am
I don’t care what the bike looks like myself. To me, filling my bike/car tank with water I think is a step forward in the right dirction for technology and it’s look can be improved in time as can it’s performance. It’s just important to make people know that this type of tech’ is not just coming but is here and should been encouraged.
May 16th, 2007 at 10:21 am
if it runs on water wont water get more expensive?? and wont maintenence be real expensive?
July 25th, 2007 at 5:39 am
DESIGN PRECEPT; form follows fuction. The idea of actually riding a bike powered by such a renewable resource is awsome. I just recently bought my first bike and the only reason why it was even available to me is the price of fuel today. I spent on average a total of 250$ a month on premium gasoline in my car where as on my bike it dropped to 90$ a month. The difference between the two just happened to be enough for a bike payment, i end up paying for the thing just by riding it…something to think about…..could just keep sending our monthly earnings to OPEC or pay ourselves to have a good time.