What an amazing race! Too bad Thud didn't get to compete with even one motor, I think he would have been a contender. Paul's bike is completely homebuilt, the batteries are actually lithium cobalt I believe, and it seemed to be exactly the same speed as the two fast gassers. BUT, his max wattage was only about 3500w. He only used 7ah out of a 20ah pack at 66 volt. It goes to show that crazy power isn't everything, Paul reeally out rode those guys and finally got Alex with three laps to go by braking slightly later for turn one and passing him for the win! Alex ( blue gasser) was not happy, those guys had all sort of questions for Paul about his ride, not that they understood the half of it.
Yes, my chain wadded up my derialluer into my spokes, but then I tried again with those cheesy gasser tensioners and blew the chain with maybe too touchy throttle response? Either way, that little Hacker would not have made that whole race an I was only getting about 30 something mph, so back to the drawing boards for, and probably all of us. The gas guys were really cool, I can't say enough about the event. We all had a blast, and we might of even converted a fee guys to electric. You guys missed out. I took a bunch of photos and will post once I get home.
