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2bims · Joined: 03 Apr 2010 Posts: 7289

What some folk can achieve with a couple of computers and a mouse eh??

https://ottonero.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/bimota-eb1.html?spref=fb

In there is a video of a single sided rear wheel, carbon tesi front ended electric powered Bimota........Oh the dreams eh??

Tesikwak · Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 62 Location: Adelaide, Australia

It looks very nice. Loads of potential . It'll be interesting if anything becomes of it.
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Weed · Joined: 29 Dec 2013 Posts: 250 Location: Perth Australia

Let's face it, whether Bimota does it or not, electric drive trains are the way the future is heading once the battery issues are sorted out, especially if the new generation aluminium based ones can / will get sorted out. As much as I love my 4 strokes & more recently I have grown to appreciate 2 strokes even though I don't full understand them, max torque at zero rpm is hard to beat especially with the new generation controllers around. I can see brakes as we know them disappearing as well.

barnmankit · Joined: 23 Nov 2014 Posts: 97 Location: Pyrenees, France

Yeah it's obvious that the days of internal combustion engines are numbered. And for electric bikes/cars etc it's not just the fantastic power characteristics but also the virtually zero maintenance powerplant.
There are already electric bikes capable of 0-60 mph in 3 seconds and almost 200 mph max, eg the Sarolea race bike made in Belgium. But these bikes are going to lack all the character, noise, vibrations and sensations that we love in our Bimotas.
I for one will be keeping mine.
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