interesting bikes found randomly..

[cheb]

What that black and chrome monstrosity? Looks like a child drew a picture of a bike. Badly.

But it got them a job at Harley-Davidson as chief stylist.

[Screwdriver]

What that black and chrome monstrosity? Looks like a child drew a picture of a bike. Badly.

But it got them a job at Harley-Davidson as chief stylist.

I rest my case.

[Taipan]

[Sadlonelygit]

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Fastest electric bike over a flying km at Bonneville or something!

It ran with and without fairing.

Anyone care to guess the difference that fairing makes in mph?

[Skub]

Anyone care to guess the difference that fairing makes in mph?

24.7mph.

[Yorick]

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Fastest electric bike over a flying km at Bonneville or something!

It ran with and without fairing.

Anyone care to guess the difference that fairing makes in mph?

Ha ha. I read that and was gonna ask same question as it surprised me

[Yorick]

Anyone care to guess the difference that fairing makes in mph?

24.7mph.

IIRC about half that.

[Sadlonelygit]

voxan-record-moto-1024x614.jpeg

Fastest electric bike over a flying km at Bonneville or something!

It ran with and without fairing.

Anyone care to guess the difference that fairing makes in mph?

Ha ha. I read that and was gonna ask same question as it surprised me

When i looked at the numbers it makes, it made sense. Shed loads of torque and bugger all hp.
For speed you need big hp numbers over 170 is as drag becomes exponentially power sapping

[Yorick]

voxan-record-moto-1024x614.jpeg

Fastest electric bike over a flying km at Bonneville or something!

It ran with and without fairing.

Anyone care to guess the difference that fairing makes in mph?

Ha ha. I read that and was gonna ask same question as it surprised me

When i looked at the numbers it makes, it made sense. Shed loads of torque and bugger all hp.
For speed you need big hp numbers over 170 is as drag becomes exponentially power sapping

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[weeksy]

[Mr Moofo]

Seat looks uncomfortable

[ZRX61]

Pan/Knuckle hybrid Harley. When I lived in S London there was bloke running the same mix in a Featherbed frame.

[Ian]

Nice. Modern Harley's leave me cold but I like old ones.

[Nobby]

voxan-record-moto-1024x614.jpeg

Fastest electric bike over a flying km at Bonneville or something!

It ran with and without fairing.

Anyone care to guess the difference that fairing makes in mph?

Ha ha. I read that and was gonna ask same question as it surprised me

When i looked at the numbers it makes, it made sense. Shed loads of torque and bugger all hp.
For speed you need big hp numbers over 170 is as drag becomes exponentially power sapping

When running on salt the most important thing is aero. A Gazillion horses are irrelevant when the aero brick wall is reached, all it does is spin up the wheels.

[KungFooBob]

<Stolen from Friendface>

A long time ago, back in the 60s the MotoGP ancestors ran on 2 stroke engines with several categories based on engine displacement.

The most junior category was the 50cc, where constructors and pilots had to squeeze the most of a tiny engine. Multi cylinder setups were showing up until FIM declared that from 1968 on, engines had to be single cylinder with a maximum of 6 gears.
So the engine in the picture never got a chance to prove itself, but the numbers were impressive: V3, 2 stroke, 20k rpm, 19bhp and 14 gears! The gears were necessary because it had a usable range of only 500 rpm!

[Horse]

The most junior category was the 50cc, where constructors and pilots had to squeeze the most of a tiny engine. Multi cylinder setups were showing up until FIM declared that from 1968 on, engines had to be single cylinder with a maximum of 6 gears.
So the engine in the picture never got a chance to prove itself

I used to work with a chap who was a designer with Connaught.

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/978187051904 ... 519043/plp

He said there was a 500cc car class. Everyone used Norton engines. Their boss considered having a 10 cylinder engine, so had a 50cc miniature engine copy made to test.

[Ian]

Spooky coincidence: I was looking at this yesterday

[ZRX61]

When running on salt the most important thing is aero. A Gazillion horses are irrelevant when the aero brick wall is reached, all it does is spin up the wheels.

B-i-L used to run on the salt, bike had 70lb of lead bolted to the swing arm.

[KungFooBob]

Almost £9k is one hell of a discount.

It says 2022, so I wonder if they've just got a couple of (or a single) pre-reg 22 bikes at this price?

https://www.wheelsmotorcycles.co.uk/ev/ ... o-srs/2022

£15k is about the going price for a middle range bike these days, innit?

[JackyJoll]

when the aero brick wall is reached,.

Is that the same as breeze blocks?