Electric Bikes
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Victory racing both Project 156 AND electric Empulse RR bikes at Pikes Peak this year
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Victory Motorcycles will be racing up the mountain with two very different motorcycles in this year’s Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC), an event that marks its 100th anniversary in 2016. In a gas vs. electric battle in the experimental class, Victory Racing’s Project 156 will be piloted by former Pikes Peak Champion Jeremy Toye…
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Video: 6kg, 3D printed frame bike unveiled by plane giant Airbus
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6kg, 3D printed frame bike unveiled by plane giant Airbus. Check out this 3D printed bike that might look like a super-funky mountain-bike/motorcycle crossbreed but is actually the first step by Aeronautic giant Airbus into the world of two-wheelers. Called Light Rider, the bike is the world’s first 3D printed bike and is capable of…
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Victory to race at this year’s TT! All-new bike AND William Dunlop riding it in the Zero TT race
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Victory Motorcycles is returning with the Victory Racing team to compete in the Isle of Man TT Zero race with an all-new electric race bike called the Victory RR. The Victory RR electric motorcycle has been developed over the past year using data gathered during last year’s TT Zero and will be ridden by…
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Video: Behind the scenes on Deadpool (and the Zero electric motorcycle)
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Video: Behind the scenes on Deadpool (and the Zero electric motorcycle). So the digital edition of the excellent film Deadpool is now out there and one of the extras includes this story of the Zero motorcycle that was used as a moving multi-camera platform. It’s an interesting reveal into what goes into making the action…
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Video: Riding the 3D printed motorcycle (The Gadget Show’s film)
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Here’s a decent bit of video from the latest edition of The Gadget Show, channel five’s nerdfest (which we never miss). This week, ageing Lex Luthor lookalike Jason Bradbury (who we also like) takes to the road in Italy on the Ego electric bike. It’s not much of a test of the bike to be…
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Scoop: Mugen Shinden Go snapped during Japanese tests
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Scoop: Mugen Shinden Go snapped during Japanese tests. Ahead of it being shown officially at the upcoming, pictures have emerged of the Mugen Shinden Go electric racebike being tested in Japan. The images were taken at the Sodegaura Forest Raceway and the Tsukuba Circuit as test rider Hikaru Miyagi put miles under the wheels. Outwardly…
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Honda’s hybrid-powered scooter plans for 2017 appear
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Honda’s hybrid-powered scooter plans for 2017 appear. This is Honda’s latest design for its upcoming hybrid-engined scooter. The patent drawings have just been published for a super-mpg scooter that’s going to be part of the 2017 line-up. Details on the bike are pretty scarce but what we can see is a motor that’s part…
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VIDEO: Electric Powered Odyssey trailer
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VIDEO: Electric Powered Odyssey trailer. Check out this really quite lovely bit of film which is a teaser for a film called Electric Powered Odyssey. The idea is that rider Thomas Tomczyk (pictured) is riding an electric bike from Philadelphia in America to Patagonia in Argentina – a distance of 12,000 miles. He’s documenting the…
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VIDEO: World’s first electric KTM backflip caught on film
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Here’s the world’s first backflip on an electric bike. The jump was performed by Frenchman Julien Dupont on an electric KTM Freeride last month and Dupont made the video public last week. The film was made by street-sports film-maker Fabien Didelot and is safe to watch at work, the music’s a bit Tron-ish but take…
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Energica Eva bike launched at the Milan motorcycle show
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This is the Energica Eva, a 95bhp PMAC motored electric streetfighter that’s being show at the Milan show. Essentially, this is the same bike as we first saw last year as a prototype, but this year’s version is different in that whilst 95bhp is nothing to be sniffed at – it is considerably lower than…
