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General Category => Electric Motorcycle Events => Topic started by: skadamo on April 07, 2009, 11:37:59 AM
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Sounds like the race was a success! Here are some interesting details from the race.
The race started at 11 a.m. Saturday in what had to have been the quietest start to a motorcycle race ever. Ten bikes streaked away from the starting gate with nothing more than the whir of their 8-inch, air-cooled electric motors and the chatter of their chains. Each team was allowed three batteries, and the first bikes headed for the pits about 20 minutes in. Zero says the 2 kilowatt-hour batteries are good for 40 minutes of hardcore riding, but the teams were pushing them hard all day and didn't want to risk running out of juice on the track.
Teams were replacing brake pads with some regularity, a few shock absorbers blew out and one team managed to fry its motor. Still, several people were impressed by how well the bikes took the beating. The riders took almost as much abuse, and by morning many of them were stiff and limping.
(http://blog.wired.com/cars/images/2009/04/06/_g7i8003_2.jpg)
http://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/04/24-hours-of-ele.html
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very nice, sounds like all the bikes stood up to the abuse pretty well, not many would go for 24 hours (my cr125 is sposed to get a top end rebuild after 6 hrs of racing :P) hopefully we will see multiple manufacturers enter races like this in future
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Good point on the top end rebuild.
24 hours of riding is probably 2 years of ownership for most recreational riders :D
Do you do a lot of racing?
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did a wee bit b4 uni bout 5 years ago, just got a dirtbike again now so probly get back into it, still got my old freestyle ramp too :P