Battery Powered FZR...

[deernet]

Found this in a random google search trying to find stock horsepower. Still have conflicting answers on that. Anyways, heres the link to the battery bike: http://www.evalbum.com/1536 This may be old news. The bodywork looks pretty hacked together. I hope it runs better than it looks...

[Fizzinatorr]

Never saw it

but top speed of 73? come on now

IT'S A MOTORCYCLE

[deernet]

Yeah, it seems kind of useless, as the things get like 50 mpg anyway, he's probably spending more money charging his batteries than he would in gas.

[abs929cbrrr]

There is a guy at work that wants to do this...hes set on a fzr600 also. what i cannot make him realize is all the (non green) that goes in making batteries nd charging them...gas/oil is used to make plastic we all know this...the more batterys we make...well the same eccect happens and then w left with more f*ck plastic.

motorcycles are motorcycles for a reason, not batterycycles.

[the_finch]

I've seen a couple of these done, even thought about doing one myself. The reason for the low top speed is that they replace the entire ICE (internal Cumbstion Engine) and transmission assebly with a direct drive electric motor. So you go from a six speed to a clutchless 1 speed electric, much like a gas powered moped.

I personally don't see the point without a transmission, but I guess the big advantage that electrics have is the fact that most electric motors is that they generate a heck of alot more torque than our bikes could ever think of. I saw a video on youtube a while back about a guy who converted a early 90's gixxer 750 to electric; it would top out at like 80mph and only go about 100 miles per charge, but if you twisted the throttle to wide open at a dead standstill, then the bike would come over on top of you. It seemed to have pretty awesome accelleration, especially for a bike that had another 100+lbs. of weight added to it.

The cost of a bike like that isn't really measured by how much it takes t charge the batteries, but in the conversion. For the most part, charging an EV (electric vehicle) is cheaper than filling a comparable one with gasoline. The batteries are pretty expensive, even if you go the "cheap route" and use regular car batteries. The control boxes and charging assembly are really expensive, so if you did the conversion, it would take, oh, I don't know, 5-7 years of riding everyday for the lack of gasoline or engine oil to pay for the conversion.

I'll stick to my most fuel economical ride: a normal FZR600; 40-50 mpg and 0-60 mph in less than 4.5 seconds...Saving gasoline never was so much fun.

[abs929cbrrr]

yeah fzr's do get good gas mileage...no one has beat my 60mpg though yet. i miss it compaired to 30-35 mpg on a 929rr

[the_finch]

yeah fzr's do get good gas mileage...no one has beat my 60mpg though yet. i miss it compaired to 30-35 mpg on a 929rr

Though if you think about it....my brother's 99 honda civic ex gets about the same fuel economy as your 929. I think I'd rather ride the 929.

[abs929cbrrr]

yeah i got a 04 civic, normaly i get 35 outta it, some days better then then 929.

[match417]

i found a battery powered FZR online about a year ago. The guy had put a bunch of batteries where his engine was and a huge electric motor on it. He listed detailed instructions on how to install everything, where to buy the parts to do it..everything. But now that I've read your post, i've been googling everything I could think of to find it again. I had it bookmarked on my old desktop that crapped out on me, if i can get it to boot back up i'll let you know what the link is. He had a name on the side of it..something like lightning or something like that. And I wanna say it was an orange bike. The name had something to do with electricity, that's all i remember.