The Shame of it All

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Unbelievable as it may seem, one of our own form racers, Kenny Cummings, was seen today in practice for the AHRMA race at Miller Motorsports Park going around the track on an ELECTRIC MOTORCYCLE! Oh the shame of it. Not even a single Norton Commando sticker on the bike, either. To try to attone for his sins, Kenny will also be racing a proper British bike. He's riding a Manx framed, BSA engined bike owned by one of the forum members, but I don't recall which one. Sorry about that, but I'm old, and I forget stuff. Hopefully, he will report results here after the event.

I'll get pictures if I can manage to remember how to operate my high tech camera.

Some of the electric race bikes are amazingly fast. What's the world coming to?

Ken
 
i don't know, this place just opened up near me, indoor electric go carts made in italy. they fly! a good 40-45mph indoors is fun!
 
There was a fella in CA a couple years ago who hit 153 mph and 8.5 secs on an electric motorcycle dragster. Batteries have come a long way.
 
Electrics are great for the short runs and carts good practice for drifting with straight steering. Fuel cells eventually should take over the world power sports.
 
I feel sick !
Motorcycle road racing is about having fun, why not just use a computer game, it would use less electricity ? Where does the adrenalin rush and the lovely aggro come from, if not from slipstreaming some other aggressive idiot, and outsmarting him. We can't get into Supermarine Spitfires and Messerschmidt 109s and machine gun each other any more, and now you are talking about electric motorcycles - get real ! It will be really fantastic when we all blast off from the grid quietly humming - the greenies will love us forever.
Have a look at this little bit of video and see if you think you would get the same feelings from a couple of electric bikes :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMkLu0ZN ... e=youtu.be
 
To be quite serious, I believe we should give all the four cylinder superbikes the big A and revert to riding thunderbikes and two strokes. And when the world runs out of petrol keep racing using methanol and vegetable oil. I know the superbikes are turbine smooth, and have excellent performance, but cricket is stiil played with the same bats we used back in the 1800s and the game still excites the fans. We would have been better off if in 1963 we had separated single and twin cylinder road racers from the two strokes and four cylinder bikes. We'd all be racing Molnar Manxes, Seeley G50s and Patons now. I get an adrenalin rush just thinking about it.
 
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