EnerTrac Corporation Electric Hub Motor
Update: See EnerTrac’s limited time offer at the end of this post. In order to understand the beauty of electric motorcycles you need to look beyond the silence, ease of maintenance and lack of emissions. Electric motors have only one moving part, the rotor inside the motor. They are small and powerful and becoming more […]
In: Parts · Tagged with: conversion, eGrandPrix, Electric Lifan, Enertrac, Enertrac Corporation, Hub Motor, Mark Gelbien, TTXGP
2009 AMA TTXGP eGrandPrix At Mid Ohio
This weekend was the first time electric motorcycles took the track on US soil in an AMA event dubbed the TTXGP eGrandPrix. Through out the day Saturday there was a crowd gathered around the electric motorcycles at the TTXGP tent. Even after 7 PM when most of Mid Ohio Sports Car Course was mostly cleared […]
In: Racing, TTXGP · Tagged with: AMA, Azhar Hussain, eGrandPrix, Electric Motorsport, Enertrac, Mid Ohio Sports Car Course, Mission Motors, Native Cycles, Norton Electra, Schultz Engineering, Team Zion, TTXGP, Vintage Motorcycle Days, Zero
Brian Richardson’s Norton Electra
Brian Richardson always dreamed of owning a Norton. In 2008 he could not buy one new so he took a 1966 slimline featherbed frame, a brushless AC Motor capable of 50 HP and 100 pound-feet of torque and built an all electric Norton Electra. He finished it off with a 1957 MV Augusta/Norton dustbin faring […]
In: Homebrew, Racing · Tagged with: Brian Richardson, eGrandPrix, Electra, electric motorcycle conversion, Electric Motorcycle Racing, Homebrew, Norton, Norton Electra, Racing
Red Valley Motorsport Amplux
Tony Helmholt took a 1975 Yamaha RD250 with a blown motor and began working on converting it to electric. The Amplux uses a 36V Etek motor, three 12 volt lead acid batteries and a 6 speed gear box to achieve 91 mph top speed and a 24 mile range. It has a fully programmable speed controller […]
In: Homebrew, Racing · Tagged with: 1975, conversion, eGrandPrix, electric motorcycle conversion, Etek, Gear Box, Homebrew, Lead Acid, Racing, RD250, Tony Helmholt, Yamaha
Electric Motorsport GPR-S
With all the buzz around Brammo selling it’s Enertia at Best Buy, Mission Motors technologically advanced superbike and former MotoGP hopeful MotoCzysz surprising jump into the world of electrics, Electric Motorsport has not received the press it should. Their GPR-S model is a practical UJM styled bike you can buy for $8500 making it one […]
In: Electric Motorsport · Tagged with: eGrandPrix, Electric Motorsport, Native Cycles, Todd Kollin, TTXGP
