Times are changing

[lloydie]

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/nati ... ooters.htm

[boz]

Suppose they serve a purpose. At least you wouldn't have to queue behind the bloody things at the pumps. Good if you are purely after cheap commuting transport so each to their own.

[lloydie]

It won't be long before we see electric bikes in Moto gp

[benny hedges]

nt$100 gets you 260km???

that = £2.11 and 161.5 miles

the electric bikes.... broke the 100mph lap at iom last year though theyre not very reliable yet.
still managing 75 - 100kw output which is quite powerful tbh

[Flatline]

There have been a few races shown on itv4

Load of baldrocks

Just record and watch bsb, wsb or moto with the sound off!!

No sound of screaming engines

[VTRDark]

Can't beat the sound of loud cans.

(:-})

[benny hedges]

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[sirch345]

I would find it very hard to change to a non IC engined bike, a different story if I didn't know any different. I was feeling bad enough when I saw and heard a diesel Royal Enfield pull away from my local bike garage today. I imagine the Royal Enfield to be excellent on mpg figures, but while I can afford petrol and it's still available I will stick with what I've got.

(I'll duck from the fallout from the green party)

Chris.

[Stratman]

I would find it very hard to change to a non IC engined bike, a different story if I didn't know any different. I was feeling bad enough when I saw and heard a diesel Royal Enfield pull away from my local bike garage today. I imagine the Royal Enfield to be excellent on mpg figures, but while I can afford petrol and it's still available I will stick with what I've got.

(I'll duck from the fallout from the green party)

Chris.

I just wonder where all the electricity is to come from? We didn't replace our nuclear capacity soon enough and we may have insufficient for day to day use in the future, let alone with electric vehicles. It's the range and costs that are unrealistic at the moment.

[lloydie]

It will come from solar energy that's why they're sticking on the house roof .
Pretty soon everyone will have them just like Dubble glazing .

[Stratman]

It will come from solar energy that's why they're sticking on the house roof .
Pretty soon everyone will have them just like Dubble glazing .

Excepting the fact that renewables cannot possibly generate enough. It's like the tokenism of windfarms.

[BigVeeGrin]

every little helps

those scooters though are hydrogen fuel cell powered, to my knowledge that's like an internal combustion engine that burns hydrogen. The only issue being how much it costs to generate the right hydrogen. Still - if the sun can burn it, so can a bike one day.

[VTRDark]

It runs on the same stuff the car on Back to the Future ran on. So maybe we could use it to get back to petrol engined storms.

I think they will have to make some sort of exhaust noise, or some noise of some sort for a safety thing. Pedestrians and other road users need to be aware of their presence.

(:-})

[sirch345]

I just wonder where all the electricity is to come from? We didn't replace our nuclear capacity soon enough and we may have insufficient for day to day use in the future, let alone with electric vehicles. It's the range and costs that are unrealistic at the moment.

That is a very good point Paul, and with solar panels being placed on farms by the acre, we're loosing valuable arable land which will be needed for growing food in the future.

IMHO until cars etc can produce enough electricity so they can recharge their own batteries as they go it's a bit pointless in buying one to go green. OK it's stopped the pollution from the vehicle's engine that normally burns petrol or diesel, but to me they've only moved it to the plants generating the electricity.

Chris.

[benny hedges]

That is a very good point Paul, and with solar panels being placed on farms by the acre, we're loosing valuable arable land which will be needed for growing food in the future.

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it wont matter soon cos the sun is fkt with a big hole in it.