Don't tell Obama...

Thanks to those enterprising and good-humoured Swiss, we now have a dual sport alternative to those polluting bikes of ours.
For a mere 9566 euros (12,698.37 USD) you can have this electric bike with a range of about 30 mins running and a recharge time of 2 hours...the power output is a respectable 11 HP.

The publicity shots show the bike in the great outdoor...how do you recharge it there?. It's made by an outfit called Quantya Telemetric

http://www.arpem.com/motos/modelos/q...zquierdo-1.JPG


Lots more pictures here, including a close up view of the transmission. This is all-exposed to the elements and should last about an hour...

http://www.arpem.com/motos/modelos/q...-1-strada.html

http://www.arpem.com/motos/modelos/q...da-motor-1.JPG

Here's this intrepid Swiss chap, looking all windswept and interesting...all dressed-up and nowhere to go...

http://www.arpem.com/motos/modelos/q...zquierdo-2.JPG

Well forchetto , as soon as the Swiss Cheezers design a Solar Suit that will charge the bike in the rain too while riding the bike , then they gotta winner .
I wonder if it has Hi-Fi Sterio so it sounds like a Moto ?
Half hour run time ? It takes me that long to tune my bike after I start it , let it warm up right , grap a smoke , put my ride gear on . Well at least I can take a 2 hour break after that . Am I supposed to plug this thing in , in my ass ? Does it run on an extension cord too , may work well for a minute on my track till I run out of cord ?
$12,000 USD ? That's four good China bikes right there without Solar Suits ?
They must smoke good dope there ? Or real bad dope ? I like the looks of the belt drive primary , ought to crush rocks well , at least the first one :thumbsup: But the most important thing I want to know is can it pop a wheelie ::riding:

Cheers, Snortin

PS...........They really ought have put a nice black and white milk cow in the backround picture to match the ride gear.

Maybe they can recharge it by pushing it backwards....

KTM are about to release there first electric bike soon.First impressions of the bike say it ain't to bad but it needs some work.

There is a electric drag bike in the USA was doing 8 seconds down the quarter mile two or three years ago must be doing under 8 seconds now.

I think electric motorcycles could be the way of the future.

Plenty of electric bikes in China seem to be going OK.

I have a zero emission off-road bike! It's called a mountain bike! :lol8:

The inventive British have come up with a methane powered version. The low budget means that development is a bit slow...

http://lexluthor34.files.wordpress.c...pg?w=460&h=307

Looks like Culcune :thumbsup:
Always talkin out his ass anwyay :lol8:
Gives a whole new meaning to his new Honda ASS-NOT ?

Snortin Norton

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Originally Posted by Snortin Norton

I wonder if it has Hi-Fi Sterio so it sounds like a Moto ?

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Don't you remember how we did it as kids? Use a clothes pin and a card from a deck of cards to get that 'real moto sound'! Did it to my sons bike a few weeks ago and he thinks it is the coolest thing.

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Originally Posted by tank_rider

Don't you remember how we did it as kids? Use a clothes pin and a card from a deck of cards to get that 'real moto sound'! Did it to my sons bike a few weeks ago and he thinks it is the coolest thing.

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Not only does he think its cool , but I am going to lay money that we all still think its cool now too :thumbsup:

Snortin

I swear that's how I am going to die. Run over by an electric bike here in China. They are silent, and ridden by the most brain dead morons on the planet.

Oh man...crack heads on electric bikes in China...especially early in the mornings when everyone rides like they're drunk. I actually got nailed by one in the morning when I was riding a bicycle to class. Dude clipped me at full speed running around a corner on a slimey damp morning and then looked at me like it was my fault! :eek2:

What I love is the cool boys who ride the electric bikes while checking themselves out in the side mirror and honking their little beepy horn at people as they wrecklessly swerve down the street. I reckon the swerving must give them more ways to appreciate their narcicism from different angles in the mirror. :rolleyes1:

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There's a friend of ours who has actually nailed electric bikes twice since he started riding scooters in China a year ago. The first time it was someone zipping onto the main thoroughfare from a side road. Knocked him right onto his keister. He gave him 100 Kwai and went merrily on his way. The second time, and I saw it, he was going through an intersection with the right of way (HA!) and a woman just pretended she couldn't hear him honking his horn. He slammed on the brakes in a valiant effort to stop but still hit her hard enough to demolish the back of her electric bike and send her halfway across the intersection. I honestly thought he had broken his knee. When I finally got him to stop a half km later, he just shrugged it off. "Electric bikes are the devil" he said.

Yeah, I don't ride with that dude anymore :mwink:

No doubt. Testosterone + Speed + China = Guaranteed Bad Day

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