Comments on: Mavizen TTX02 – An Electric Race Bike You Can Buy

By: Mule

Mule — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:10:05 +0000

Steve, they are probably envious that they didn’t use their own bike to do it first.

Al, the downside of a Rail gun is that it takes a bus-load of battery storage all piled up to fire it once! Maybe for drag racing. Charge and shoot!

By: steve

steve — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:01:56 +0000

I wonder how ktm feels about this company using the RC8 as the platform for their motorcycle? Considering the time and money that went into developing the RC8, and the fact that ktm has already announced plans to introduce an electric dirtbike – signifying their interest in electric motorcycles in general – i wonder how they feel about this whole thing….

By: Al

Al — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:17:38 +0000

Just wait until we have superconductor e-bikes. Single-track vacuum bottle bikes. Top off the liquid N2, charge it up.
It will be like getting shot off an aircraft carrier or launched from a rail gun!

By: Mule

Mule — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:17:00 +0000

I just had a sobering thought The best conductor of electricity other than the human body is gold. So the ultimate competition bikes as well as being made light with carbon, etc, will have gold wiring further driving the prices up for Privateers!

By: Al

Al — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:19:07 +0000

Those numbers were so depressing I had to do a bottoms-up calc for bikes.

Extending the specs from this article, we can expect to consume about 15 KWh per 100 miles on a bike. For simplicity, 2x that for charging. For 10,000. miles annual riding that’s 3000 KWh, a reasonable number. At my current electric rate, that’s $322. annually for “gas” equivalent, not bad at all.

Amortization of batteries would cost more than this, but that is for another story.