| Re: electric bikes on centuries
Daryl Hunt wrote:
> "Bill Baka" <bbaka@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:M6fyh.16272$zH1.6227@newssvr29.news.prodigy.n et...
>> Does that tell you anything about the typical American who wants to have
>> his cake and eat it too. 50 miles is more than enough to run errands and
>> get groceries and stuff. Unfortunately, Joe average wants a 300 mile, 60
>> MPG car that will also do 0-60 in 5 seconds. Not likely.
>> Reality stinks.
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> The LSEbike is slow on the excelleration but the electric car will run with
> the best of the small 4 cylinders. The average at the wheel output of a 4
> cyclinder is less than 80. You can put on 40 hp in hub motor wheels on all
> 4 wheels and develop twice that. The same goes for a 2 wheeler classed as a
> Motorcycle which can put up to 80 hp directly onto the ground. 80hp on a
> MC, now that's a scary thing to even think about riding.
How about 800 HP. There is a bike posted on the aviation pictures group
that has a WWII radial airplane engine built into it. That was radical
but the gas tank would only give about 10 miles between fills.
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> It's funny (not really), people that are bicycle "Purests" will scream very,
> vary loud against the EVT anything. And then bitch about all that smog that
> the other people spew with their cars. We have one thinly veiled "Lobbyist"
> organization that claims to be a Bicycle Club (they openly solicit money and
> lobby heavily) that wants to keep everything "Pure" and openly does not want
> to share the bike paths with the LSEBikes or anything else. It makes it
> difficult to get our Legislators off their butts to have similiar laws that
> California currently has. The sad part is, some of the Cops here are trying
> to enforce the "Old" CA electric Bicycle Laws when we don't have any such
> thing on the books. Usually, we make for sense in laws here than where you
> are but, obviously, not always.
I'm in California too, and definitely not a "Purist", since I have a
real need to haul stuff some times. The "Purist" mind set must come from
the city boys who have never dealt with suburb type towns. At least we
get some victories, small but progress. A few years back they paved the
levee tops for ped and bike use. Now the tracks are a path. Who knows
what may come next.
Bill Baka
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