AussieJester
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I just finished watching the latest episode of American CHopper and was pleasantly surprised to see their latest build is for Lawless EV Racing, the goal is to build the worlds fastest drag bike, they are after 200mph low to mid 7 second passes.
OCC have had the frame fabricated by the frame building company Rolling Thunder up in Ontario Canada, they didn't give alot away, i did spot a A123 Systems sticker on the 'dumby' battery housing they provided OCC for the mock up of the bike & it was stated it would weigh in at 360 pounds, they mentioned the motor was originally an 36v industrial motor that will be running on 360v producing 500 or 600hp and weighed 300 pounds
In the above pic 3rd down on the left you can see some form of coolant being sprayed on
a component, no idea what it is or does Luke?
9.47 150mph for its first ever full powered run with a rider whom has never riden a electric bike before (he does have 32 years experience on nitro bikes though haha) the gearing was to high unfortunately they had
no suitable sprockets at the track, they also said the bike came out ~300pounds heavier than originally planned.
Lawless racing bought along a couple of their other ev racers, a junior dragster and what looked like a 3/4 scale
drag bike, the drag bike runs 9 second passes at ~150mph Couple of the OCC workers took them for a run in the carpark
and not surprisingly were blown away by the torque, the bike wouldn't stop spinning the rear wheel haha, couple
of screen shots of them-->
They are heading to the track one more time before the bike will be "unveiled' at Sturgis in a few weeks
time. Next episode will show their second attempt at the world record and the unveil...shall report back
with any info and pics then.
KiM
EDIT: meant to also add for those wanting to watch the epsiode and are bittorrent users the episode i watched is American.Chopper.S07E07.HDTV.XviD-QSSDivX I have a 3 invites for TV Torrents if anyone has trouble finding them on public tracker...first in first served pm me your email addy and i'll hook you up.
OCC have had the frame fabricated by the frame building company Rolling Thunder up in Ontario Canada, they didn't give alot away, i did spot a A123 Systems sticker on the 'dumby' battery housing they provided OCC for the mock up of the bike & it was stated it would weigh in at 360 pounds, they mentioned the motor was originally an 36v industrial motor that will be running on 360v producing 500 or 600hp and weighed 300 pounds
In the above pic 3rd down on the left you can see some form of coolant being sprayed on
a component, no idea what it is or does Luke?
9.47 150mph for its first ever full powered run with a rider whom has never riden a electric bike before (he does have 32 years experience on nitro bikes though haha) the gearing was to high unfortunately they had
no suitable sprockets at the track, they also said the bike came out ~300pounds heavier than originally planned.
Lawless racing bought along a couple of their other ev racers, a junior dragster and what looked like a 3/4 scale
drag bike, the drag bike runs 9 second passes at ~150mph Couple of the OCC workers took them for a run in the carpark
and not surprisingly were blown away by the torque, the bike wouldn't stop spinning the rear wheel haha, couple
of screen shots of them-->
They are heading to the track one more time before the bike will be "unveiled' at Sturgis in a few weeks
time. Next episode will show their second attempt at the world record and the unveil...shall report back
with any info and pics then.
KiM
EDIT: meant to also add for those wanting to watch the epsiode and are bittorrent users the episode i watched is American.Chopper.S07E07.HDTV.XviD-QSSDivX I have a 3 invites for TV Torrents if anyone has trouble finding them on public tracker...first in first served pm me your email addy and i'll hook you up.
