There were two more EV motorcycles in addition to Kevin's sidecar at
Bonneville this past week - MobiTec and KillaJoule.
MobiTec is a _very_ beautiful hub motor motorcycle from Japan:
http://marumasumotorcycle.jp/blog-entry-3925.html
The natural salt lake track is a bit rough for the hub motor, so he has
not been able to get the bike up to it's maximum speed. Kaz managed a
bit over 100 mph as of Thursday.
Our purpose-built sidecar motorcycle, the KillaJoule, has been at
Bonneville this past week as well. We set three new overall sidecar
records. We set the record for the FIM flying mile of 248.746 mph, and
set the AMA flying record at the same time. We also set the flying
kilometer FIM record of 400.2 kph. (All pending ratification, as is the
usual.)
Eva was particularly happy with the 400 kph record as that number means
a lot in Europe, where many of her fellow sidecar racers live.
It is always an adventure to race at Bonneville, and this time was no
exception. I personally "let the magic smoke" out of our highly reliable
8 kw Cummins-Onan diesel generator that we use to charge the bike. (Not
an easy thing to do, but somehow I managed.) The salt finally got to the
regen pot on the bike, which took a bit of troubleshooting to figure out
and fix. (Thank you for your invaluable help with that, Frank John of
the Loring Timing Association.) Plus the usual salt gremlins.
You can read about the entire adventure on our public Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/EvaHakanssonRacing/
Bill & Eva
On 9/1/2016 11:03 AM, Cor van de Water via EV wrote:
This article caught my attention while I was reading up on something
else
http://spectrum.ieee.org/video/transportation/alternative-transportation
/setting-a-land-speed-record-with-a-sidecar-motorcycle
Great to see that IEEE presents the electric drivetrain as the way to
set a land speed record...
Cor van de Water
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