Electric motorbike racing

[Jonathan]

We're almost ready now. First qualifier is on Friday...

[JAZZCNC]

How much does it weigh Jonathan.? The squareness makes it look heavy but sure it's not.!

Good Luck to the Team.!

[Jonathan]

How much does it weigh Jonathan.? The squareness makes it look heavy but sure it's not.!

Got any scales?

Seriously, we've not had the bike all together yet so it's not been weighed and it doesn't look like there are scales for bikes on this island! We'll weigh it when we can, but I guess about 230-240kg. The batteries are the main weight at ~87kg. The frame hardly weighs anything - it's 7xxx series aluminium.

Can anyone spot the bits I made ;)

[JAZZCNC]

Can anyone spot the bits I made ;)

Would that be for hanging onto.?

Don't they have a Minimum weight classification for Electric bike racing.? They do for the smelly versions.!

[Skipsoaring]

Brilliant work Jonathan and team!

From an ex superbike smelly racer!

[Jonathan]

I've had a mad last two weeks or so - but we did it! The bike survived the TT ... we blew up plenty of bits between races in testing and had problems with the bike cutting out (10 times!) during the race, but were still the fastest university.



Must remember to buy more cooling hoses for next time, or hire the same van

Would that be for hanging onto.?

Yep, I also made the water cooling block below by borrowing my friend's CNC router. We were nowhere near finishing so we took my mini lathe in the van. Almost everyone who passed our box said 'look, they have a lathe!'... you'd think they'd never seen one before. The lathe proved just as useful to other teams as us - I think I helped out 5 different teams with it, including skimming a shaft from a sidecar.



Next we're racing in a series called 'Moto-E' in the UK and Europe.

[Boyan Silyavski]

That's a beautiful piece of aluminum. Must be fun at the competition.

[Skipsoaring]

Congrats to you and the team Jon. Fantastic achievement and enjoy Moto-E!