Here's another angle on ELEC bikes ... http://video.ft.com/3636947340001/The-shape-of-bikes-to-come-/life-and-arts Specs on this bikes performance are higher levels than that HD bike ... -- Over here, parking for one thing, is made specifically for bikes ...Meaning, bikes about always park up front and close to the front door ... The states for one place as an example, needs to adopt an attitude that allows a bike to be a bike and to help promote bike riding with things such as ease-of-parking ... easy and close to the front door, parking. -- This bike has got some funky front end suspension ... Not sure what it is but it sure looks like that bike has a very steep rake angle ...
I remember mythbusters did a show on bike vs car efficiency. They used a Yammy WR250R with a horrible botched up aerodynamic bubble and it really increased efficency. I think thats the deal with electric bikes, the batterys arent quite there yet so bang for buck is the go when looking at 'miles per gallon'. Unfortunately it has the looks only a mother could love atm. In regards to making it easier for bike riders I agree. New South Wales ( the state where I live in Aus) has just made a form of low speed lane splitting legal, dont know where it came from becuse lots of other laws are passively against bike use.
yea, I see no real reason for that dome look unless it gets better gas mileage ... Try all you want ..but a bike really needs to look like a bike ... And if you put a bike on the road and make it act like a car and take away all the advantages of a bike, like size and turning, you really put another car out there and lost par tor maybe all of a bikes advantages. Every place here has bike parking ..usually right up front ... -- That splitter lanes shows someone is thinking :0 ) ... Might be a little tricky at first but with lane sharing of about any type, its like on a race track ...You gotta hold your line (not your lane) ... Splitting the lanes or whatever is just using the advantage of the bike ... I see big things for your country in the short and near future
Looks like someone piled some left over car parts on a bike. Electric bikes seem to attract the weirdo wanna be engineers thinking they can improve the design. It's an epidemic...
You might have hit on something there with that weirdo angle ... Electricity people and bike riders are at different spectrums ... An ELEC bike is gonna have some fringe bleedover from these 2 different spectrums ... Then you get an ELECT bike with a ~1950s football helmet to look over as you ride.
That is what I am getting at. Definitely attracts some different type folks. I think they are in love with the idea of an electric bike and not necessarily riding bikes like we are. I could be way off but that's what my gut is telling me. Goes with the territory I recon. We shall see how it shakes out for the guys (aka US) that will actually buy and use the bikes.
There is already a very good amount of that here. PDX airport, Intel, Nikes, most big companies provide it, etc. Motorcycles and bicycles park right at the door and it was loaded with bikes last week when i was there. they can use the multi occupant lane and in many states split lanes while riding. Seems motorcycles are pretty well accommodated here now. Lots of the parks I notice have bike parking right up front and most places don't care if you park a bike near the door on the sidewalk etc. seattle has lots of dedicated MC parking... "The City has also designated more than 100 parking spaces around the city for the exclusive use of motorcycles and scooters." map - http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=e...289349892739264829.0004656bf6227d23b2c61&z=13
We used to have free motorcycle parking in the downtown Eugene garages, taking advantage of spaces where cars wouldnt fit. When they dropped that program and started charging the regular car price I just parked in a regular space (and gave the Parking Manager an earful)...OTOH you can ride and park your bicycle pretty much anyplace you want, ignoring all traffic laws, and get away with it (until the laws of physics and biology win, that is). I spent a decade in California where lane splitting was legal. It did help get through traffic jams, but it also raises the ire of the poor SOBs stuck in their cars; they see it as unfair, nevermind that its actually helping reduce congestion. And the Washougal MX national has a motorcycle parking area at the top of the hill, near the entry gate....a little perk for those who ride in, which I will probably do this year.
Me too. Going to Dualsport over the ridge on gavel roads right to the event and then park right up front.
And bike riders should be up front! When its' the norm for your society to accept that...You might have a better than average day riding, each riding day I certainly do each time I roll out ... It's actually a bit ~cool riding where bikes rule the roads and society and everyday life, everyday ;00 ). Its cool but weird at the same time... Its like, when is the hammer gonna fall on me and my bike?
With endless trails and Ds opportunities I already feel that way. Everywhere I look they (we) are building new trails. I myself built miles of singletrack yesterday. Dave Hiatt is building so much trail in the coast range i cant keep up. I have never seen so much trail building in my life. Idaho, washington and oregon have ridiculous amounts of riding opportunity and all I see is more and more. Could not be more happy about it.
Now that sounds like the way to go watch the national at Washougal. When I went we thought it would be fun to rent a mustang to carve up the road to the track. It worked on the way there, but on the way out traffic was moving so slow people were getting out and swimming in the river while their car sat in traffic.
