Will Team Agni Streamline For TT Zero?

Team Agni won last year’s TTXGP at Isle Of Man by choosing an outstanding rider and using a philosophy of minimalist engineering, energy management and decades of knowledge of electric vehicle racing. Rob Barber rode the Cedric Lynch designed X01 to a convincing victory over more powerful machines. The same “big money” teams will be [...]

2009 TTXGP Champions Confirm All Three TTXGP Regionals For 2010

Team Agni took first place at the 2009 TTXGP at Isle Of Man by a large margin upsetting many favorites. Many eyes have been on Arvind Rabadia to see where his team would go racing for 2010. There are currently three separate electric race organizations, TT Zero (Isle of Man), e-Power (FIM) and TTXGP (eGrandPrix). For [...]

Posted on February 25, 2010 at 11:36 pm by skadamo · Permalink · One Comment
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TTXGP UK Championship Dates Announced

TTXGP announced the dates and venues for the planned TTXGP UK Championship 2010. Four dates were originally planned but it appears they have settled on three. The first at  Cadwell Park July 3-4, the second at Snetterton July 17 – 18 and Castle Combe September 11. The events will be sanctioned by the Auto-Cycle Union [...]

Posted on November 26, 2009 at 9:30 pm by skadamo · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Mavizen TTX02 To Be Unveiled At SEMA Show

With electric motorcycles becoming more practical over the last few years there were a lot of teams interested in competing in the 2009 TTXGP at Isle of Man. However, in the end only 10 bikes crossed the finish line. Most teams had about 6 months to put a bike together and though simpler to build [...]

Posted on October 12, 2009 at 12:16 pm by skadamo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Mavizen and Agni Produce TTXGP Ready Electric Motorcycles

Back in August we reported that a “major American corporation” would be producing an all electric race bike based on the TTXGP winning Team Agni X01 for under $40,000 USD. We will continue to wait for that announcement but Azhar Hussain just shared that Mavizen is producing a second iteration of the all electric TTX01. [...]

Posted on September 5, 2009 at 7:58 am by skadamo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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TTXGP Rider Interviews After the Race

The official TTXGP results are posted along with a video from race day and interviews with the riders and team members. Most riders interviewed over the last week seem surprised at the power of the bikes and how much they enjoyed riding them. Keep in mind some of the entries were not complete and track [...]

Posted on June 13, 2009 at 10:26 am by skadamo · Permalink · One Comment
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Results After TTXGP Qualifying At IOM TT

Team Agni and Robert “Bullet” Barber made history and turned the fastest lap of the 37.5 mile IOM mountain course at 26 minutes, 41 seconds on a zero emissions motorcycle. This was a good 5 minutes, 6 seconds faster than the next fastest team, Dan Kneen on the ManTTX machine.  Absent from the top three [...]

Team Agni Fastest In TTXGP Practice

Team Agni rider Robert Barber pulled a surprising upset of favorites such as MotoCzysz, Mission Motors and Brammo and posted the fastest lap of the 38 mile IOM circuit.  They completed the lap in around 26 minutes, just minutes slower than the average gas powered bike.
Source: Amadeus_IOM Amadeus Photography

Posted on June 9, 2009 at 8:59 am by skadamo · Permalink · Leave a comment
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TTXGP Rider and Team Interviews

Here is an interesting interview with various TTXGP teams and Riders.  The following people are interviewed:
Azhar Hussain – TTXGP founder
Brian Wismann – Brammo’s Team Leader
Roy Richardson – One of Team Brammo’s Riders
Jeremy Cleland – Mission Motors Product Manager
Rober Barber – Team Agni Rider
Arvind Rabadia – Team Agni Race Director