Jeremiah, I corresponded several months ago with an electrical engineer, Ken Elder, in St. Petersburg who is building an electric motorcycle. I don't think it's a racing bike that he's building, but you might want to try Ken anyway for his expertise on the EV side, as you said you're looking for, especially since he's local to you there in the Tampa Bay area. His email address is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A bit further afield, across the state on the east coast, in the West Palm Beach area specifically, both Jeff Patterson in Jupiter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and Florida EAA President Shawn Waggoner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in Lake Worth have 5-10 years experience in building electric motorcycles. As for specific expertise in building electric racing motorcycles, the two best in the world are: 1) NEDRA (www.nedra.com) President Shawn Lawless ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) from Youngstown, Ohio, who is a good friend of the Florida EAA, comes to our annual Battery Beach Burnout (www.batterybeach.com) EV racing event in late January, is a frequent visitor to Florida, especially to the Keys, and has many friends all over Florida. Shawn holds numerous electric motorcycle drag racing world records. 2) Bill Dube ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) from Denver, Colorado, has the fastest electric motorcycle in the world, KillaCycle (www.killacycle.com), which does something like 0-60 in .9 seconds and the quarter in 7.8 seconds and 160 mph. (I've lost track and don't follow the racing scene very closely.) Bill and his team are also good friends of the Florida EAA. Bill came down here and was the keynote speaker for our Battery Beach Burnout event in January 2007 and was just down here again a few months ago, in fact right there in Tampa, where he was attending the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference. Florida EAA President Shawn Waggoner in particular has close relationships with both Shawn Lawless and Bill Dube & team. Good luck with your project! Charles Whalen Florida EAA Delray Beach, FL [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: Jeremiah Johnson To: FLEAA Mailing List Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [FLEAA] Anyone interested in getting involved in a race project? Sorry, I forgot that they added our email list to the whole florida thing, and that there were people on this list that didn't know me. Let me give a little more details to get rid of some confusion. I am a professional motorcycle racer and I have been working towards building an EV motorcycle that will compete in high performance with my ICE bike. So this will be a race motorcycle, not a race car. I have one of my professional race bikes that is in need of a motor, so I am going to build that one. It already has top of the line Ohlins suspension components. I have a sponsor that is financially helping me to make the build, I am looking for some people that might have some more expertise in the EV portion of it that might be interested in being part of this. Once again, thank you for your time. Jeremiah #64 http://johnson64.com _______________________________________________ Florida EAA mailing list [email protected] http://www.floridaeaa.org
