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e/ I'm dumb and christ what a snipe I didn't clock who this was at first and thought it was a recent photo Renaissance Robot fucked around with this message at 18:12 on Oct 28, 2021 |
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https://i.imgur.com/iTIlYZS.mp4 Dude on the bike is literally the only person in 7 billion human beings who couldn't see how this was ending.
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Oct 30, 2021 12:21
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRNfyz1Cgvg
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Oct 31, 2021 16:13
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Was looking through my photos for something and ran across these that I took in 2017:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britten_V1000 in Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
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Oct 31, 2021 17:25
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I want to power wheelie out of corners 
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dema posted:Was looking through my photos for something and ran across these that I took in 2017: The one that runs and gets ridden regularly:    
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Oct 31, 2021 19:38
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlZ6w3yILII https://www.crightonmotorcycles.com/
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https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7025223026413178158 I’m all the clothing that comes off randomly
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Oct 31, 2021 23:20
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7025223026413178158 This is why trikes don't get the wave.
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Oct 31, 2021 23:52
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I’m not a tenth as brave as those skaters. Just sitting or standing there while that thing whips all over the place.
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Nov 1, 2021 00:29
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All that work and effort and they top it off with an awful direct shock mounted halfway down the swingarm like they're trying to replicate the 80's handling experience as well. 
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Nov 1, 2021 01:30
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I'm not sure I'm buying that fuel injection works better on cars than motorcycles because motorcycles rev too quickly.
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I’m not sure I’m buying that his bike won’t run if it sits for four weeks with etoh gas in it.
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PeterCat posted:I'm not sure I'm buying that fuel injection works better on cars than motorcycles because motorcycles rev too quickly. Seems like a massive oversimplification/chinese whispers situation. EFI is harder to implement on bikes because of a number of factors that aren't significant on car engines. But bikes being behind on emissions regulation probably didn't help the situation.
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Denver. Represent.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://i.imgur.com/iTIlYZS.mp4
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7025223026413178158 This just makes me want a canam all the more.
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PeterCat posted:I'm not sure I'm buying that fuel injection works better on cars than motorcycles because motorcycles rev too quickly. That part was specific to direct injection (as opposed to port injection) which I think is probably at least a little valid. The big takeaway from that video is "boy, cars sure have a lot more regulatory pressure on them than motorcycles do"
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Nov 2, 2021 16:07
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Memento posted:https://i.imgur.com/9TLcQ51.mp4 I enjoyed that air time.
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A whole lot of people are taking things to skateparks that shouldn’t be at skateparks lately
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Nov 4, 2021 17:22
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After a decade Zero has finally updated their SR line. It no longer looks like an anemic 2006 MT-03. Old:  New: 
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Nov 4, 2021 17:42
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Supradog posted:I enjoyed that air time. He's very lucky that didn't land on his spine
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Nov 4, 2021 18:13
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That's a massive improvement. I see they also went to dual front brakes.
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Nov 4, 2021 18:15
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Ulf posted:After a decade Zero has finally updated their SR line. It no longer looks like an anemic 2006 MT-03. It looks just like a livewire. Theory: by virtue of having to be sporty and light looking while enclosing an air conditioning unit in the middle, I think all electric bikes will end up looking very similar to this and Harley just figured it out earlier because they're product packaging specialists. This look will become synonymous with electrics the way awkward teardrop shaped liftbacks with a stupid tiny window just above the bumper was pioneered by the Prius but is now the defacto style of all hybrid/electric lifestyle cars.
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I think my electric bike looks fine
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Ulf posted:After a decade Zero has finally updated their SR line. It no longer looks like an anemic 2006 MT-03. Sweet. That is a big improvement. Can it charge in an hour yet, or does it still have the anemic 4+ hour onboard thing? I want 150 mile range and 1 hour charging (let's say 0 to 80% to be nice) and less than $10,000. Well and I need a garage to put it in. But then I'll buy one, yep
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Nov 4, 2021 20:26
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I wish Tesla wood open up their charging infrastructure to some, if not all motorcycle makers. Any motorcycle with fast charging capabilities and access to that network will dominate.
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Nitrox posted:I wish Tesla wood open up their charging infrastructure to some, if not all motorcycle makers. Any motorcycle with fast charging capabilities and access to that network will dominate. I would think the current barrier for fast DC charging motorcycles is heat management. I don't think the Zero has a radiator and I think the rad on the Livewire is just for the motor, not connected to the battery pack.
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Sagebrush posted:Can it charge in an hour yet, or does it still have the anemic 4+ hour onboard thing? What you want is DC charging to get past the 1C (1 hour) barrier, nfcknblvbl's energica and the LiveWire have that. Zero still doesn't. The $10k barrier's going to be the last hurdle on your list, and I wouldn't hold my breath.
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Nitrox posted:I wish Tesla wood open up their charging infrastructure to some, if not all motorcycle makers. Any motorcycle with fast charging capabilities and access to that network will dominate. I believe Musk has gone on record as being anti motorcycle. (Because he had a bad crash once) So I wouldn’t hold your breath.
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Tesla has now opened their superchargers to other brands of vehicles in the Netherlands as a trial run. But you're paying a premium for being allowed to use them. Considering we have Fastned chargers on the main highway routes, and i haven't really seen any tesla superchargers anywhere except where there are already other fast chargers, i think the result will be 'we found out that there is no interest! So quit forcing us to make it so that others can use our As a side note, electric motorcycles don't have the 80 or so kwh battery pack for which you need a truly staggering amount of power to charge it quickly. Modern houses (not apartments) are built with 230v 3 phase 25 or 35a mains connections. This means that with active load management you can charge your electric bike with 15 to 20kw of power. A 15kwh battery pack can be charged in one hour. Because these mains connections are so common, it also means that you can access random street chargers with such levels of power. I don't know how much power our street chargers actually put out, but technically there is no reason why they couldn't put out 15ish kw. In short: it doesn't matter what tesla does with regards to bikes, because bikes are devices that can technically be charged in one hour, even on modern residential electric circuits. That said, the standard home charger is a slow charger running on one 16a 230v circuit. The philosophy behind it is that you have plenty of time to charge, and the grid can handle slow continuous loads easier than big peak loads. I have too little knowledge about USA residential electrics. If thats 110v 2 phase 100 amps, then it should be possible to also safely draw 15ish kW for use with a charger, provided the rest of the loads are actively managed - so no one's using an oven/microwave/electric heater while you're charging etc. LimaBiker fucked around with this message at 10:20 on Nov 5, 2021 |
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Good thing nobody will ever come home, put the bike on charge, turn on the air conditioner, and make dinner! 
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Until I can get a electrician to come upgrade my service and add a 60 amp circuit to charge our Tesla, I am charging it with a 110V, 20 amp circuit, at 16 amps. It gets the job done for how little we are driving, but because the one garage outlet I have is on the same circuit as all of the bathrooms, it means you can't use a hair dryer and charge the car at the same time.
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The nice thing about automatic/active load management is that you can use your hair dryer, water kettle or microwave for those 10 minutes, and then charging at high speed can resume. When done right, you're not gonna pop the fuse, and because it's a few minutes at a time that one uses such things, it doesn't have that big of an impact. The main issue is that the technology is still really new and expensive (for domestic use) and that many shiny new ~smart devices~ just love to farm your data.
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LimaBiker posted:I have too little knowledge about USA residential electrics. If thats 110v 2 phase 100 amps, then it should be possible to also safely draw 15ish kW for use with a charger, provided the rest of the loads are actively managed - so no one's using an oven/microwave/electric heater while you're charging etc. I only just found out about this last week (which is pitiful) but in the US and Canada, homes are supplied with 240v split-phase power - two 120v hot lines, 180° out of phase with eachother, and a neutral in the middle. Most of our home circuits are wired for 120v, so one of the hot lines and the neutral, and in the breaker panel I think it's supposed to alternate between one hot and the other for each consecutive breaker. But for high power appliances like electric ovens or dryers or AC, you can have a 240v circuit by connecting it to both power conductors. I have no idea what this implies for rapid charging your bike, though.
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Phy posted:I only just found out about this last week (which is pitiful) but in the US and Canada, homes are supplied with 240v split-phase power - two 120v hot lines, 180° out of phase with eachother, and a neutral in the middle. Most of our home circuits are wired for 120v, so one of the hot lines and the neutral, and in the breaker panel I think it's supposed to alternate between one hot and the other for each consecutive breaker. But for high power appliances like electric ovens or dryers or AC, you can have a 240v circuit by connecting it to both power conductors. For the high power DC fast charging, i think you're going to need something like a 90-100 Amp circuit. I don't know if that's 1 or 2 phases. The issue I'm running into for my 1991 house is that the conductors coming from the city to my meter are sized for maybe 150 Amps and my panel and meter are currently sized for ~100A. So, to add more circuits, and especially a higher current charging circuit I have to get my panel and meter upgraded to 150A (most I can do without paying several thousand dollars for the city to run larger conductors from the transformer to my meter). Then, I have a subpanel that also needs to be upgraded and run a 60A circuit to my garage. Copper is also pretty expensive-- I think the electrician I spoke with said that just in material it's about $4/ft for a 60amp wire, and I have ~75ft to get it from one corner of the house to the garage.
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In the USA, 1 phase at 100 amps would get you about 10kW of power, which is already quite a decent amount for a bike. However, it would be wasteful (in copper wiring) to run it on 110v. You can do with half the amount of copper in your wires, if you run it at 50 amp, 240v, connected to the two incoming hot wires. You could also install the Big rear end Wires for 100a and end up with over 20kW of power. But yeah, copper is hellishly expensive. There's one benefit though - that copper is probably only gonna rise in value so if/when you aren't charging at home anymore, you can just sell the wiring. If 100 amp mains inputs are common in the USA, then having a fast-ish street charger should technically be possible. For cars, it would not be that fast, but for bikes a house-sized electrical connection is plenty to go from 10 to 80% in less than an hour. 100A is a staggeringly high amount of current though. It creeps me the gently caress out. It's the amount of current you use for welding, but then with a lot higher voltage. I'd rather have the 230v/400v 3 phase system, so you can draw 10kW from a 3x 16a circuit. Perhaps this is the perfect time to start rolling out 3 phase infrastructure to supply chargers with power, and then also use it for houses. LimaBiker fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Nov 6, 2021 |
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