Thanks for the correction, John. I feel for you on the 'purist' comment, but I look at it like this: we dont know what condition the bike was before the conversion. Since most of the conversion bikes are from accidents or engine/tranny neglect, it's possible the insurance or original owner had declared it a non-recoverable bike. We have to look at it like hotrodders, we mod the bikes noone else wanted or thought not worth their time.
I am sure that (in the future) good performance bikes that have been converted need to visually appeal and attempt to meet certain performance points (which is another reason I was drawn to the site and the excellent builders that are here). I.E. I would hate to be the guy that took an electric Ducati with an ugly battery box to a rally and brag that it can go 50mph. But, I am hopeful that improvements are on the way. I think our community is another piece to the larger puzzle for those improvements. I also think we are getting more noticed, too. Hey, Mike. Is it me or are we getting more hits than last year? Besides the spam filter. BTW FYI to all our members, Mike installed a filter for the site that has been doing wonders at blocking all the visit-my-site in the comments sections. Its seamless except for an occasional administration cleanup which is easy, but it's been working at keeping spam like see-my-teen-mom-wife-eat-golfballs from appearing. I think Mike needs a little attaboy every once in a while. All these little things add up to making the site great. Thanks, Mike. Lyle --- John Fisher wrote: > thats an R1, 4 cylinder liter bike by Yamaha. Kind > of makes me sick to > see all that lead hanging on it. Like the other Big4 > 4 cyl liter bikes, > its a really nice extremely sporty bike on gasoline. > Imagine taking a > Lotus Elise and adding 1000 lbs of batteries.... > > There *was* an R7, quite famous, but has not been > manufactured for a > long time. Song of the purist I guess. > > :>) > > John > > lyle sloan wrote: > > Found another EM beauty on one of the replacement > > forum sites for visforvoltage.com . This forum is > > titled http://endless-sphere.com/ . Anyways, its > a > > Yamaha R7? , 72V AC (I almost convinced that it is > a > > pocketbike from the angle of the lens, but I could > be > > wrong. I have to find out which batts they are > using > > for a size reference). > > > > > http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=838 > > > > > > And also on the forum, Lemmiwinks conversion of a > > yamaha. > > > > > http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=290 > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
