The Killacycle

[SyntheticShield]

Since Im heavily involved with a local drag bike racing team, I found this pretty interesting.

Ive seen this bike before, unfortunately it was when it crashed in a demo it was doing of a burn out. But it would seem they have the thing running pretty smoothly now and pretty dang fast if you ask me.

KillaCycle - World’s Quickest Electric Motorcycle

 

[Bio248]

electric can be faster than everything else, its just a matter of being able to supply that amount of power to get down the track. electric motors have all the torque and horsepower in the world if you can get the power to 'em.

 

[archemedes]

electric can be faster than everything else, its just a matter of being able to supply that amount of power to get down the track. electric motors have all the torque and horsepower in the world if you can get the power to 'em.

that seems to be the big issue, a ton of power doesn't help if it takes 2 tons to move the extra weight of the batteries

 

[SyntheticShield]

True, but that thing meets the NHRA sanctioned race weight which I believe is under 700 lbs, but I dont remember what the exact weight is.

 

[archemedes]

how did they do it any idea?

 

[SyntheticShield]

I dont know a whole lot about the bike. They had a show on Discovery about it, pitting it up against a pro stock drag bike. But it apparently was before the did their latest runs because on the show it was running 8 flat and the pro stock bike was running 7.8's.

However, they showed a little about the motors and the electronics that control them, and the motors are fairly small it seemed. Though they mentioned that they came from a WW II submarine. What they powered or drove in the submarine they didnt say but the whole thing is not that big.

They hot lapped the sucker once and ran back to back 8.0 passes on the show. The power source was not that large as best I can tell, but of course they didnt give a lot of details as the focus of the show was to pit the electric bike up against the gas bike and see who did best. The gas bike won because of the ET's. But if they are running 7.8's now, then it would have been pretty dang close.