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Then ten years after that we will be talking about how good the racing was back in 2014 compared to the now cookie cutter tracks and pull one race from 2014 to prove our point
Also the people who can't afford to ride their inexpensive two strokes that are currently collecting dust in their garages sure as heck aren't candidates for getting off the couch to re enter the fray on an electric bike considering cost of entry.
"Battery technology hasn't changed significantly in the last 110 years"
You realize there are electric cars now, right? There has been all kinds of advances with significantly more on the verge of happening. Lithium ion batteries are a huge development and now researchers have developed batteries with carbon nanotube electrodes and as well as lithium air batteries. Electric cars are driving the technology at a very rapid pace. High powered, long lasting, stable batteries to power cars amongst other things will be common place much sooner rather than later. Weird, I don't get the Naysaying here.
We will be doing moto from the couch.
Oh,with 6 hr erections by then
I think it's gonna be like Polo, or F1, a sport for the rich. With some crazy ass stuff that will blow your mind.
Sure, it will be around, but only for a few with a ton of talent, or mega bucks from daddies business.
It seems to make money for the likes of Feld, so they are gonna need riders.
But like Nascar or Monster trucks, the average Joe, it will be out of reach for them.
The electric factor, may work for SX or MX, but like the naysayers above, I just don't see a battery
holding enough charge to take on anything like an Enduro or CrossCountry.
Like solar, sure it's better than 20 years ago, but not that much better.
Like a rechargeable drill, and believe me, I'm around that stuff all the time, they just can't hang with the electric tools
that plug in the wall. I call them toy tools, because that's how they work in the real world. Like a toy.
Add the fact a battery drill is what, 3 times the cost of a 110 volt drill, who's gonna pay for that?
Anyone here own a hybred car? Price one of them.
Then, the issue of 200 guys needing to recharge between motos, who knows how big a line would be needed
to feed that many chargers. Who's gonna put that kind of money into a facility?
Ultra sexy, top tech gasoline fed bikes, ridden by a few for the masses to watch on cable TV, that's the future imho.
I think electric cars make a lot of sense for fleet vehicles but am not sold on the whole Prius deal either for this reason.
motogrady-Good post.
Pit Row
Nothing stops....first we get rid of premix smell,then noise....thats all. snif snif...
Also, the way I see it, if the bikes are being re-invented there's no reason the racing itself won't be changed drastically also. Sure, the ideal goal is to have these electric bikes replicate what we have now, but maybe that's just not feasible at any kind of realistic cost. So in that case I'd image racing would turn into a kind of BMX/SX hybrid. Lighter bikes with different power curves riding on more BMX-y style tracks.
I dunno, the future, man, the future!
I remember a few years ago a lady wrote in to the newspaper I worked for saying that all the families that drive their kids to sporting events on the weekend are contributing to global warming and rising gas prices. Fuck you bitch.
the typical mx racer isnt concerned about the enviroment.
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