Parker Brothers Custom Choppers in Melbourne, Florida has created the light bike from the movie Tron! How awesome is this!??! The bike is all electric and can be yours for about US$55.000. If you get one, send me heaps of pictures…
Have you been visiting Kawasaki.com lately? Did you see their new paintjob option called “Pearl Meteor Gray/Polar White”. I can’t remember seeing that in the earlier Kawasaki Vulcan ranges. I guess it’s new. I can’t decide if I think it looks cool or not, but I like the tires! What do you think?
Me next to Per Morten’s Honda CBR 600F, boy is that different to mine! :)
The weather was perfect last Sunday, not taking the bike out for a spin would be a shame! I was called up by an old friend from school and we hit the road together. He’s a proud owner of a Honda CBR 600F, quite a beauty! We switched bikes for a few kilometers and boy was it a different feeling riding that sort of a bike after riding a cruiser for 3 years. You can’t really say that riding one or the other is a better feeling as the experiences of riding these two bikes are totally different. One is built for speed and the other is built for cruising. Each for their own particular use I guess, but we rode 209 kilometres together and it was a lot of fun. Definitely something to repeat sometime soon.
We ended up stopping at a small town called Evje. If you’re ever up there be sure to grab a burger at the local fast food joint! It’s a small town, you’ll find the one I’m talking about :)
Per Morten on my bike (left), My Kawasaki VN900 Classic next to a Honda CBR 600F (right)
The Hildebrand & Wolfmüller motorcycle is the first-ever motorcycle to be put into production in 1894. The very first one ever produced was found in a barn the United States and has been there for ages but is now sold at an auction in London for £86,200 (US $131.000). It will now be returning to its’ country of origin, Germany, where it’s simply called “motorrad” (“motorcycle” – keep it simple, right?).
Check out the video below for a similar motorcycle produced only 2 years later, in 1896:
I recently came over an article where Jeremy Cleland drove at an average of more than 150mph (241,4Km/h) over two miles (3,22Km) on an electric bike named “The Mission One”. Now that’s what I call progress!
According to the article (link at bottom of post) the 240 Volt powered bike beat 70% of all the petrol-engine bikes in the competition held at Bonneville salt flats in Utah. Quite impressive!
The bike will be available for consumers this year! – at a price of £42.000 which is roughly US $68.400 – a bit too pricey for my taste, but I’m sure the price for these dream machines will drop drastically in the coming years as competition tightens.
Mission Motors, who developed The Mission One, first showed off the bike at the 2009 TTXGP on Isle of Man (click here for an article on that + early photos).
According to online rumors (now there’s a great source for ya!) the consumer bike will be capable of doing 150 miles (241,4Km) on a single charge. Sounds like the perfect city bike eh?
I use YouTube quite alot to find information I need. A simple search on VN900 got me to a video of a 2008 VN900 Custom with Cobra Shorties pipes installed. They sound awesome! I’d like to install those on my bike, but the pipes aren’t slashed like the stock pipes so that kinda puts me off. I loooove the sound of the cobra shorties but also love the look of the stock pipes. Are there any alternatives that combines the best of the two worlds? If you know about any alternatives, please do comment.
Here’s the video of the VN900 Custom with the Cobra Shorties:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tysMWmV8rs8
Team Agni won the first inaugural TTXGP, a race for electric motorcycles, thanks to electricmotorsport.com for the picture.
This is kinda old news since the race was in June, but hey, it’s still interesting! Indian based Team Agni won the very first electric motorcycle race, TTXGP, that I wrote about in a previous post (click here to read that one).
Their bike was a modified 2007 GSX-R600. The average speed for the bike around Isle of Man was 140,7km/h (87,434mph), not bad for something that runs on a battery! Thomas Schönfelder took second place in his battery powered Laverda and he also had the top speed during the race, a gasping 171,5km/h (106,5mph)!
A new race next year is confirmed and it will be interesting to see what batteries they’ve come up with then!
Hit this site for lots of cool photos of the motorcycles that participated: EV Racing News.
Isle of Man electric motorcycle race
Inspection before the race starts, no petrol here! (left), Team Kingston University (right)
Links:
More Photos of the bikes: EV Racing News
MotorcycleNews: TTXGP: Team Agni blitzes field in first practice
HellForLeather: Team Agni wins inaugural TTXGP
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