The after life of a China Sport Bike
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaIa0vXIzBw

Very cool video.

That is pretty nice. Good use for a china bike. Low cost donar.

Thank you for providing the great link, Brian! :) I am going to move this thread to our Electrics Forum!

Here's a link to the webpage detailing this project. :)

http://www.electricmotion.org/

Spud :)

Clever build. I'm not interested in non-internal combustion anything but I respect his engineering! :D

Doc, I agree. EVs do have a place though.

Golf carts on golf courses. Self propelled wheelchairs. Three wheeled scooters for handicapped people. Chairlifts at ski resorts. Toy tractors for grandchildren to play with on granddad's property. Even the hoist that will lower me into my grave. Plenty of places I see the benifit of EV's. :roll:

Exactly. Forklifts too. No fumes inside the warehouse. If I had a real short commute I could see using an EV for it, but the fact that you could never use the vehicle for any distance driving would make it more of toy or third vehicle.

Trains and subways. Nuclear submarines.

I've had this one sitting on the "warmer", waiting on battery tech to get better/cheaper.
My commute is fairly short, under 40mph.
No oil changes, no tune ups, no fuel...use a belt drive instead of a chain...
plug that puppy into an outlet in the work garage... :wink:

Give me internal combustion for trips and hitting the curves...
but this is attractive for when gas hits $4 again, or higher.
Bill R

Yep, our gas prices here hit $1.12L this morning, 3.785L in a US gallon so $4.24 a gallon here and our dollar is almost at par with yours, and they said to expect $1.20 a litre by christmas.

Gas seems cheaper out that way..

Yowch!!!
We're at $3.05/US gal for premium, pretty stable for a while.
Bill R

At that price could you send me 100 gallons or so :) :)

Bill, suppose to be going up by Christmas.

Bootleg gasoline... :lol:
Wonder if we could get "Thunder Road" going again...
Bill R