Found a Grassroots Electric Motorcycle

I was volunteering a the local Mini Maker Faire and a guy showed up on this:

Original bike was a 73? Yamaha RD250 that was purchased for $100 with lots a parts missing.

Restoring to stock would've been fairly expensive and the guy is a Tesla repair man.

Solution?   Battery pack is 1/5 of a Nissan Leaf that was purchased totaled.  Motor  and it's corresponding controller are pulled from a fork lift and reworked.

The "Exhaust" is actually functional to pull hot air from the motor.   0-60 is 4.9? with a range of ~80miles.

and, it supports QuickCharge stations.

All made on nights/weekends over 2 years.

I really like the idea of e-cycles, however.  

I would rather have a cobbled RD than that.  

Regenerative braking?

That thing looks awesome

I love this a lot. I've been thinking about building an EV sport bike a lot lately. 

I have a friend with an RD. I'll forward this to him. He'll get a real charge out of it. That thing really sparks my imagination and has a lot of potential.

In reply to T.J. :

You forgot about the negative.

In reply to Appleseed :

I thought that it was pretty well grounded

Stop resisting the positive comments or you'll drain you reserves.

I can see that this bike is very polarizing. 

Ride the lightning! I would name it Angry Pixies.

In reply to T.J. :  ohm my

My name for it?

"The Shocker"

In reply to Appleseed :

Ok, yeah that's a lot better than mine. 

True story. When I searched ''electric RD' to try to find more info about that bike, one of the top search results was Electric Avenue by Eddy Grant. 

Now I want to rock down to....

Oh, no!

I'm passionate about e-motorcycles, thus, while browsing online, I came through this thread and this amazing RD-E. I really love its style.

This old punny thread got jump started. 

Frankly, I'm shocked that this thread didn't generate more interest.  I can't find a negative thing to say about that bike, I think it looks positively electrifying! 

Sorry...went a little overboard there, I should cool it.  Don't want to let out the magic smoke.

Although they give a lift we need to turn over a new leaf and stop with all the puns.   

I find this zombie thread to be revolting.