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Saw this on the fron page of cnn....sweet looking ride that's both electric and gas, that they say can run on just about any gas including diesel, av gas, and many others. Who makes this....looks like a ktm.
http://www.cnn.com/video/standard.html?/video/tech/2014/04/25/orig-mili…
http://www.cnn.com/video/standard.html?/video/tech/2014/04/25/orig-mili…
Looks halfway decent though, wonder if they'll actually use it
The military uses every manufacturers bikes. KTMs are the most widely used but have seen some of every brand.
Also the military does not use Av gas, they use (mostly) JP4 and 8 which are mostly Kerosene mixes.
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Post these before some extremely nice people get on here and start bashing the shit out of everyone since this site has become a bitch fest. 28 years in the military if you want to know my, "how the fuck do you know-o meter"
"The energy density is what brings the RedShift bikes to performance parity, or in some cases, superiority over internal combustion equivalents. Other electric motorcycles have been unable to compete directly with internal combustion, the CEO said."
BS.
They still can't compete directly. Torque maybe, but the cost is double that of a gasoline machine. That's not parity.
And that original vid from CNN? What idiot put that together- it was a whole lot of nothing! Pieces of old promo vid from electric bike start-ups, overlaid with nonsensical text. Those bikes pictured are not hybrid, nor are they military. Nice front brake line routing on that puppy by the way. Sheesh. What am I missing?
Maybe I'm just feeling grumpy.
Chains make far more noise than the tires!
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