Have electric bikes really been around this long???....

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Edited Date/Time 9/17/2022 12:33pm
Time flies... old enough to be dead and rotting in a group under some hillbilly's porch....

stolen from facebook ad

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Gungadin 9/16/2022 6:14am
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The first battery buzzers appeared about 4 years before IC motorbikes in the mid 1880s.
They have been a failure ever since.
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msp332 9/16/2022 9:20am
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Yes, there was a 24-hr motocross race in April 2009 in San Jose where Zero X models were used. This technology was proven over 13 years ago.

Just new to AMA and MX Sports, who still have no place for Zero in any discipline.
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stone881 9/16/2022 9:35am
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I was involved with them back when the Zero first came out and lined up this deal w Ogio for their annual pit bike race. THe bikes were frankly garbage and probably still are, but they were a lot of fun. My buddy and I used to mob SLC at night and Fuzzy Hall had a backyard pit bike track that was fun too.

FIrst ever back flip on an e bike happened during the Ogio demo day, courtesy of Cam McQueen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIJ1MrYjB5c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHgKGgFo074
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Gungadin 9/17/2022 12:33am
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msp332 wrote:
Yes, there was a [url=https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/zero-motorcycles-hosts-first-ever-24-hours-of-electricross/]24-hr motocross race[/url] in April 2009 in San Jose where Zero X models were used. This technology was proven over 13 years...
Yes, there was a 24-hr motocross race in April 2009 in San Jose where Zero X models were used. This technology was proven over 13 years ago.

Just new to AMA and MX Sports, who still have no place for Zero in any discipline.
Ya, proven not to work because the battery life is so abysmal.
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kakarot 9/17/2022 12:32pm
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My guess they belonged to Dark Green motorsports which was the first and possibly last ,electric ride park in the US. Anyone know what happened to Vegas effort?

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