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I remember when Hydroplane racing went jet turbine engines and got much quieter. There was still a few dinosaurs running around with V12 WWII aircraft engines, but they were totally outclassed in a few years.
And I'm not talking about cretinous crap like them blasting out recordings / facsimiles of ICE engine sounds. That, would be utterly, utterly pathetic.
Now, I'm no great 'fan' of the various whines and whirs of E motors ( and their drive chains), but I've heard some that are pretty impressive in their 'sounding'. Bunch of them together, will give the Audiophiles, their fix.
And, with so many - not just 'Kid's - endlessly playing with computer games / watching Sci Fi films and TV series with anything but an ICE engine sound within bloody cooee of the soundtrack, we that have had ICE bikes all our lives, will rapidly become the minority in the spectator department.
I myself dislike Stupidly loud bikes, of any type. I DO love a nice sounding ICE engine, at a reasonable level of decibels. And, I completely detest the piss poor, shithouse sound of an effing 4t being bounced off the rev limiter in 'celebration'( or, introduction). It just sounds so, So bloody crap. F**k me, riders that have just (or are about to) shown so much skill and daring during the race, how about they just use a tiny bit of their Prodigious skills to keep the effing thing off that bloody blarping, spitting and burping rev limiter.
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We won’t be around to miss and reminisce.
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Just comes down to cost, convenience and reliability. Kinda like WackoZacho says he likes MacBooks because they WORK (ironically the best thing about Mac is the battery life) so i can’t argue that. Maybe Zack would like to purchase the new gasoline powered MacBook that runs off a generator and lasts 2 weeks on pint on gasoline, sorry about the noise but it never goes dead and it costs almost nothing. Sound good? Surely we wouldn’t mind that change. Or wait, is this more about people ridiculously thinking they are saving the planet? If that’s the case, Bernie Sanders just said we now only have 8 years left, the the 2 went by in 3 debates. Crazy.
Good read anyway.
"hybrid vehicles capable of running on lithium-ion batteries as well as an assortment of different power supplies, including JP-8 jet fuel, propane and olive oil. Yes, olive oil."
Propane eliminates the emissions problem, is readily available and cheap. They could keep IC engines in the mix indefinitely, regardless of emissions rules. Hybrids provide the range electric lacks. They would easily fit into a frame for protection and might weigh less than current gas and tanks. A 4 pack for $12 at WalMart.
Back To The Future fan's will dig this Ute. It's a bit 'DeLorean', and 'Doc Brown'.
I've got to say, the ramp in the tailgate idea is pretty shmick.
So now even at the early early stages of electric cars they have gone from highly expensive cars for the elite to fuel good, to cars that work out cheaper for everyday use... thats call progress aka. improvement over time.
Alta was the only electric motorbike making a competitive performance motocross bike. Like the Tesla Model S it sold at a premium, unlike Tesla they weren't able to stay solvent through the loss period to move into profitability at scale.
But I guess im just WackoZacko, who is typing this on an Oled screen while you carry a CRT around in your backpocket screaming at anyone that asks 'the refresh is faster and it has a pretty high contrast so its technically better'
Some form of liquid or chemically cooled suspension. People have no idea that their shocks get hotter than their engine, much much more. Forks as well.
They has been fooled with for decades with Yamaha's "speedos" on the YZ forks and more, but it really never was perfected. Ask any pro or cross country guy and they can tell you exactly when shock fade kicked in.
Has to be a way to cool the suspension, reducing fade which means you'll be able to better dial in the shock because now you won't have to try to find a median setting for early and in-fade.
It'll change the way we (they) ride, being even more precise.
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