New MotoGP class
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MotoE
http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2018/02/06/fim-enel-...
http://www.motogp.com/en/news/2018/02/06/fim-enel-...
Edited by tight5 on Tuesday 6th February 20:31
To quote from the press release 'The sound of the machines slicing through the air and the squeal of the tyres – which fans can hear with MotoE™ – are a completely different way to experience racing'
What a load of b
ks, bikes without noise is like fish without chips, they will be boring as fk, no gears either, should have made them look like a fking scooter too.
What a load of b
ks, bikes without noise is like fish without chips, they will be boring as fk, no gears either, should have made them look like a fking scooter too.Jazoli said:
To quote from the press release 'The sound of the machines slicing through the air and the squeal of the tyres – which fans can hear with MotoE™ – are a completely different way to experience racing'
What a load of bks, bikes without noise is like fish without chips, they will be boring as fk, no gears either, should have made them look like a fking scooter too.
yet year in year out at the isle of man more people are interested in the electric bikes.What a load of b
ks, bikes without noise is like fish without chips, they will be boring as fk, no gears either, should have made them look like a fking scooter too.egor110 said:
yet year in year out at the isle of man more people are interested in the electric bikes.
Maybe they are but they leave me stone cold, as do formula e cars, they are technically interesting but as a spectacle they are as flat as a witches tit, I want noise with my GP bikes (and cars) thanks.Jazoli said:
egor110 said:
yet year in year out at the isle of man more people are interested in the electric bikes.
Maybe they are but they leave me stone cold, as do formula e cars, they are technically interesting but as a spectacle they are as flat as a witches tit, I want noise with my GP bikes (and cars) thanks.Who needs to worry about tyre wear......
This was taken at Silverstone in 2011. I was there that day and just about every fire marshal and tender was there trying to put that out. It took 40 minutes to extinguish. One of the guys dealing with it reckoned you could have thrown it in a swimming pool and it wouldn't have gone out.
I've not only watched electric bikes race, I've also been out in practice with them. What a sterile experience!
This was taken at Silverstone in 2011. I was there that day and just about every fire marshal and tender was there trying to put that out. It took 40 minutes to extinguish. One of the guys dealing with it reckoned you could have thrown it in a swimming pool and it wouldn't have gone out.
I've not only watched electric bikes race, I've also been out in practice with them. What a sterile experience!
Shay HTFC said:
Lots of us like electric bikes/cars etc!
The sooner the tech gets good enough that I can sit in a driverless pod going down the motorway and just sleep in the back, the better!
Hopefully this helps push the tech forward a bit!
Are you intentionally combining driverless technology with electric vehicles because they are separate entities. They can be combined but they don't have to be. The sooner the tech gets good enough that I can sit in a driverless pod going down the motorway and just sleep in the back, the better!
Hopefully this helps push the tech forward a bit!
I am interested in in electric vehicles but know that as soon as they are a viable alternative ICE will be taxed off the road on environmental grounds. Meanwhile air travel will have increased and we will be at war with somebody.
Driverless cars will make travel easier whilst driverless bikes seem pointless. When driverless technology is legally responsible will you need to be on the motorway, will your job exist?
I can imagine the same debates raged on when MotoGP switched to four-stroke machinery. MotoGP is prototype racing, and what better place to try out the next frontier than surrounded by some of the greatest minds in motorcycle racing who can perfect a struggling market?
It's no secret that by 2040 the UK Gov are aiming to stop the sale of petrol and diesel cars - so you could argue have 22 years to perfect the formula, because I doubt Honda/Yamaha/Ducati will be as interested in the GP class when the market shifts.
I don't think MotoE will be up to much, but i'm going to give it a chance before I make my mind up. It'll surely be more interesting than Moto2 regardless...
It's no secret that by 2040 the UK Gov are aiming to stop the sale of petrol and diesel cars - so you could argue have 22 years to perfect the formula, because I doubt Honda/Yamaha/Ducati will be as interested in the GP class when the market shifts.
I don't think MotoE will be up to much, but i'm going to give it a chance before I make my mind up. It'll surely be more interesting than Moto2 regardless...
Shay HTFC said:
Lots of us like electric bikes/cars etc!
The sooner the tech gets good enough that I can sit in a driverless pod going down the motorway and just sleep in the back, the better!
Hopefully this helps push the tech forward a bit!
You can do that now- it's called a train. You can even get a beerThe sooner the tech gets good enough that I can sit in a driverless pod going down the motorway and just sleep in the back, the better!
Hopefully this helps push the tech forward a bit!
poo at Paul's said:
This will be awesome. A grid full of silent bikes, some of them in a different colour to another. Every now and then, they will trot out some retired racer that someone has heard of to have a go.
oohhh, I hope we get grid robots to hold the brollies.
I detect a degree of cynicism oohhh, I hope we get grid robots to hold the brollies.
Like it or hate it, it's the future unfortunately
It'll only gain momentum over the next few years, and before you know it, the petrol engine in top flight racing will be gone.
Formula E started off with the right idea, but it's gone to st now and is boring crap to watch.
All a bit too Tron for me
It won't be long before they're faster than a petrol engined bike too. All that torque from any revs, and the ability to put a small motor in the front wheel to help claw it out the corners. It's a shame, but it's inevitable
It'll only gain momentum over the next few years, and before you know it, the petrol engine in top flight racing will be gone.
Formula E started off with the right idea, but it's gone to s
t now and is boring crap to watch.All a bit too Tron for me
It won't be long before they're faster than a petrol engined bike too. All that torque from any revs, and the ability to put a small motor in the front wheel to help claw it out the corners. It's a shame, but it's inevitable
graeme4130 said:
Like it or hate it, it's the future unfortunately
It'll only gain momentum over the next few years, and before you know it, the petrol engine in top flight racing will be gone.
Formula E started off with the right idea, but it's gone to st now and is boring crap to watch.
All a bit too Tron for me
It won't be long before they're faster than a petrol engined bike too. All that torque from any revs, and the ability to put a small motor in the front wheel to help claw it out the corners. It's a shame, but it's inevitable
Yes I do agree and it is a shame to lose what we have enjoyed. Still hope that incredible machinery will still be permitted to run for very special parades and events.It'll only gain momentum over the next few years, and before you know it, the petrol engine in top flight racing will be gone.
Formula E started off with the right idea, but it's gone to s
t now and is boring crap to watch.All a bit too Tron for me
It won't be long before they're faster than a petrol engined bike too. All that torque from any revs, and the ability to put a small motor in the front wheel to help claw it out the corners. It's a shame, but it's inevitable
Consider myself as extremely lucky to have lived through heady development of race bikes and cars since the early 1960s.
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