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I like the idea just from the stand point of no air filters and minimal maintenance.
That was 5 years ago. I'd love to try out an Alta bike, the bikes are probably a lot better now than in 2012.
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When I ride an ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) bike now, especially a 4-stroke, it makes me realize how loud they actually are, and how much they vibrate! The Alta is butter-smooth in comparison.
I will always have ICE bikes in the workshop, but now the Alta is my favorite.
When those things first came out I thought they were amazing looking. I was certain I'd neve be able to ride one or afford one so I kind of brushed it off as a novelty for the wealthy. My bias is towards Alta simply because they gave me two free laps aboard their machine while the people at ZERO were just sitting around watching business not come to them I guess!
What Alta has done so far with our community is almost reinventing moto if you ask me. They're bringing a huge amount of fun into MX when so many others are trying to take the fun right out of it. I think ZERO had the jump as far as ideas go but it seems to me that they didn't dive quite as deep into the community as Alta has so far.
I completely concur with what this gentleman has said.
I'm more of an MX guy, so I spent most of my time on the more wide open trails using map 2, as well as a ton of time ripping the fire roads in map 4. Map 4 is no joke!
I'm sold on it, and am working on getting one. I live in canada so it will be close to $19000 when it's all said and done. Worth it to me, as it's the most fun I've had on a dirt bike in a long time. This will be my first brand new bike.
It's not that I technically can't afford a new 4-stroke, it's that every year that they get more expensive, the new features driving the cost aren't really adding much value for me. Yes they are faster, but I'm not trying to be the Chicken Licks Raceway champ. Ti footpegs? Dual exhaust? I just don't care about those things because to me, I'm just paying more for the same experience.
However, an Alta changes the game for me. I could ride in my backyard instead of having to load up and drive to a track or OHV trail. As a dad with little kids, I don't get a whole lot of opportunities to take off for the whole day to go riding, but with an e-bike, I wouldn't have to. From my understanding, registering it for road use wouldn't be very difficult either so I could use the bike for short trips into town. That changes everything. It goes from having an $8K motocross bike that maybe gets used once a month to a $15K bike that I would use just about every other day, or certainly every week.
Like TriRacer27 said, it changed the game for me. I can sneak out for a 30-40 minute ride behind my house any time I want, and my neighbors don't know I am there.
Also, does the battery have a "reserve"? Extended woods rides will require preflight planning anyway, and a standby low-power "get home" mode would seem mandatory.
For the battery reserve question I'm not sure, I was never told if it had reserve probably because it was charged enough for a full moto.
My brother just a had a scary situation like I'm speaking of. Now, in my family I was always taught that you NEVER ride alone, for obvious reasons. Our practice track that is at my brothers house is very, gnarly with tons of hills and the track is over 2 miles long. My brother was doing some testing in the morning and usually his wife and kids are always listening for him from the house. Well, his daughter had to go run an errand and went up to talk to my brother and didnt see his bike and realized that she didnt hear anything. Startled she went looking and found him up on the track on his back barely conscious and barely breathing. He ended up collapsing his lung, lacerating his liver, breaking ribs and fracturing a vertebrate. He ended up in the ICU for 3 days and is on the mend. He will be fine thank goodness, but we still have know idea how long he was up on the track before his daughter found him.
I guess my point is that it would seem that a quieter MX/offroad bike would make this kinda situation worse or maybe even more of a common thing. Guys and gals getting off work and thinking,"i'll blast around for a few minutes" when they wreck themselves hard, or hit an animal in the wild and effe themselves up! How are they going to get help???
Just a thought that I think everyone needs to think about.
As MX Guy wrote, you can easily change maps on the fly. In one race I did, I started in map 4, and then switched to map 3 after the first corner. At another race, I switched from map 3 to map 2 mid-race because the track got extremely rough towards the end of the day and I thought map 2 made it a little easier to ride.
The bike will go into a conservation mode if you run the battery down far enough. The display will also flash and light up an exclamation point: "!".
I always carry one of these when I go by myself, and highly recommend it. Hit one button and your friends or wife get your exact location. I carry it on the shoulder strap of my camelback and it's never given me problems. It's really cheap right now too. Seriously, get one.
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also on my mountain bike...
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The weight of the bike was not noticeable one bit compared to my KX250F an even the 2017 CRF450R that a friend of mine let me spin a few laps on. I felt the Alta was extremely nimble for how heavy it's "supposed" to feel.
Although I haven't ridden a bicycle for a couple of years, once I got over the urge to downshift going into corners (about it 15 minutes) having no clutch or gears felt rather natural for me.
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