| Re: electric bikes on centuries
"Bill Baka" <bbaka@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:KXtyh.3308$gj4.1114@newssvr14.news.prodigy.ne t...
> Daryl Hunt wrote:
>> "Bill Baka" <bbaka@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:M6fyh.16272$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.
>>
>> 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.
Chrysler built a concept Motorcycle that used the Vipers new engine. 600hp
plus. Not too many takers for rides on that thing. And Chrysler won't
anyone with a death wish anywhere near it.
>>
>> 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
I know you aren't a purist by that definition. But it appears you are more
pure than many in having an open mind. It only goes to show that money
corrupts. Some people work for next to nothing and all they can afford is a
bike. When they have to make the choice between car insurance and their
family eating that month or not then the Bike (whether it's regular or
ethyl) should be promoted.
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