I was hoping to get away with the Mad Max look since I have no sheet metal fabrication experience, but I just learned how to weld at a local community college so maybe they have a sheet metal fabrication course I could take. There are some issues with the steering and front suspension that Paul Compton pointed out that may become an issue, but I hope it will work as is for my daily 15 mile round trip commute here in the Phoenix AZ area. Maybe the next project is a trike using the same drive train with more batteries and range and elimination of any front steering and suspension issues, and another L91-4003 to take advantage of the series parallel shift in the Zilla. I just ran Claudio's Zilla gauge monitoring program with the bike up on the lift and the heat pipe cooling system seems to keep the temperature just a few degrees above ambient....110F today loading it with the rear brake. I need to get this licensed and insured and on the road. Damon, your posts had a lot of effect on my decisions for this bike, thanks for you consistent participation on both lists......me
On 6/28/07, damon henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually, I am not so sure you do. Yours has such a unique look, that it stands on it's own. The ones that I think look bad are the ones with either big boxy batteries sticking out under the frame, or built with a big box tucked in between the riders knees. The lines on the bike were all originally curved and flowed and the abrupt boxy shapes just ruin everything. Even though you have some right angles in your setup, it looks good as part of the whole. Of course, if you have the ability to fabricate some nice body panels it probably would look even better, and with as low of lines as your bike already has you could probably end up with pretty decent aerodynamics that would improve your high speed efficiency. damon >From: "Mark Eidson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: ElectricMotorcycles <[email protected]> >To: ElectricMotorcycles <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [ElectricMotorcycles] Electric Freccia >Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:13:18 -0700 > >I guess I need to fabricate some body work........this looks great. > >On 6/28/07, damon henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Very nice. Some of you guys really work hard and get everything buttoned >>up >>so well. I remember when I first started building my bike and looked at >>the >>limited selection of EMs on the Ev photo album. There were some real >>monster listed... still are. For a while I thought mine looked all right >>compared to those, but now I'm almost embarrassed to be out riding it >>around. If it weren't so much fun I might quit altogether :-) Oh well, >>at >>well over 3000 electric miles I think I still have some bragging rights. >> >>damon >> >> >> >From: "Paul Compton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >Reply-To: ElectricMotorcycles <[email protected]> >> >To: "ElectricMotorcycles" <[email protected]> >> >Subject: [ElectricMotorcycles] Electric Freccia >> >Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:26:26 +0100 >> > >> >I've just uploaded some BIG images of the bike. It's all ready to be >>loaded >> >onto the trailer and taken down to the Haynes museum (yes, the same >>Haynes >> >as the car manuals). >> > >> >The BVS has the use of their little test track for the weekend. >> > >> >http://www.compton.vispa.com/Pictures/freccia1.jpg >> >http://www.compton.vispa.com/Pictures/freccia2.jpg >> >http://www.compton.vispa.com/Pictures/freccia3.jpg >> > >> >Paul Compton >> >www.evguru.co.uk >> >www.sciroccoev.co.uk >> >www.bvs.org.uk >> >www.morini-mania.co.uk >> >www.compton.vispa.com/the_named >> > >> > >> >>_________________________________________________________________ >>Make every IM count. Download Messenger and join the i'm Initiative now. >>It's free. http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source=TAGHM_June07 >> >> >> > _________________________________________________________________ Picture this – share your photos and you could win big! http://www.GETREALPhotoContest.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHM&loc=us
