Homemade Electric Motorcycle Stopped on M25 in Hertfordshire

Re:Homemade Electric Motorcycle Stopped on M25 in Hertfordshire by Razengan on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:31AM (#20745343)

Sir Clive Sinclair thought so too and tried to make it happen about 35 years ago, but it didn't quite catch on, to say the least:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_C5

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Re:Homemade Electric Motorcycle Stopped on M25 in Hertfordshire by hawski on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:58AM (#20745500)

I was curious, so I went to YouTube and watched a bit of this clip: https://youtu.be/xS6q27VOTOk?t=38

Interesting machine, but it's really a bicycle with a single-speed electric motor. With lots of issues, that currently would be easy to fix with off-the-shelf parts from electric bicycles.

But maybe more important notion is, that it's not fully covered. It's not all-weather vehicle, not even half-weather it seems.

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Re:Homemade Electric Motorcycle Stopped on M25 in Hertfordshire by ptaipale on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @08:07AM (#20745943)

I seem to recall a Not-nine-o'clock-news episode where truckers were smashing C5's. This was after an episode where they smashed hedgehogs (naturally angering many).

The hedgehog thing is easily found on Youtube, but did I just imagine the C5 episode?

In any case, that was when I had pretty much given up hope with Sinclair QL (a home/business computer with 68008 CPU and 128K RAM).

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Re:Homemade Electric Motorcycle Stopped on M25 in Hertfordshire by wazoox on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:43AM (#20745424)

With 2 lead-acid batteries and a fragile plastic gear as an essential part of the transmission, it's hardly a surprise really.

However it's not that bad actually, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JikUIdHXcc

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Re:Homemade Electric Motorcycle Stopped on M25 in Hertfordshire by sprafa on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:41AM (#20745412)

That looks great!

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