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Take a look at the future.
Everybody farts rainbows when the bikes are quiet.
More electric bike tracks= more electric bike buyers and riders. These tracks are going to be so much easier to site and operate.
While another facility in the area has fallen foul of local noise ordinances aimed at keeping things nice and quiet in Transylvania County, Salzman says that visitors are often shocked by just how little sound the 2010 and 2011 Zero MX dirt bikes available for hire at the Dark Green facility actually make:
"These bikes are so quiet, which many people don't expect," he said. "Spectators can keep up a conversation without raising their voices, and our neighbors love us!"
http://www.gizmag.com/dark-green-electric-motocross-track/22349/
Everybody farts rainbows when the bikes are quiet.
More electric bike tracks= more electric bike buyers and riders. These tracks are going to be so much easier to site and operate.
While another facility in the area has fallen foul of local noise ordinances aimed at keeping things nice and quiet in Transylvania County, Salzman says that visitors are often shocked by just how little sound the 2010 and 2011 Zero MX dirt bikes available for hire at the Dark Green facility actually make:
"These bikes are so quiet, which many people don't expect," he said. "Spectators can keep up a conversation without raising their voices, and our neighbors love us!"
http://www.gizmag.com/dark-green-electric-motocross-track/22349/
This is pretty cool:
The Shop
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It will be extremely cool to watch these bikes develop more. Battery life, suspension components, etc.
he made some of that shit look easy, especially when everyone else was struggling
Pit Row
I'm going to call that, more about the rider than the bike...
Dam that 1 plop of mud.......
My point is that, I think its "performance" was more rider than bike. Obviously those riders aren't at the level of the rider of the electric bike, which made the contrast between the gas bikes and the electric bike SEEM far greater than it really is.
If that electric bike was racing against a pack of expert/pro riders (who can actually race that course-without falling over, who very seldom stall their bikes, and can get off the start line quicker than the gas riders in the video) all the sudden the electric bike doesn't look as good because the contrast isn't as apparent.
Off the start, I'll give it the advantage...but elsewhere, in this video, I'll credit the performance to the rider more so than the bike
The holeshot was sweet though...no kickstart would be a huge advantage on a dead engine start (which can be credited to the holeshot more than the bike just plain being faster, in my opinion).
I'm not hating on the bike at all (I'd ride one if the performance/saftey/price was competative...and I'm sure one day it will be...I'm more hating on the disingenuous video I guess.)
Did he win? Who knows. Does a electric bike go long enough to finnish a XC race let alone win?
that said, i raced the Knolls Knockdown a few years ago when it snowed 6 inches the night before. i was dead last in the Expert class going into the first corner and dumped it. took about 6 kicks to re-start it and got going a LONG ways back from even last place.
i did a lot like this guy did though, i was passing guys like they were standing still. i ended up passing everyone but Dustin Hedman and TJ Hannifin by the end of the loop. it was pretty amazing the calibre of riders i was passing like spodes, where in good weather conditions and not bunched up, they may have put up much more of a fight.
i guess my point is that in those scrambles races, a lot of guys get caught up in what the dudes in front of them are doing and squid it up just as bad. i mean, i passed 5 guys in the same 20 feet that day and probably close to 35-40 riders total in one loop.
i would have hated to be on the electric bike that day though... most guys haven't ridden rough conditions until they've raced a 96 mile race at the Knolls
TJ Hannifin is a beast in the desert...I've never understood why he doesn't race more?
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