Not sure about the ecycle  as it does have a small petrol engine in there as well as the lecky motor but it performs like a proper bike apparently.  Bit strange looking though.

What about hydrogen... not that I know anything about it :tounge:

Clive sinclair of computer and strange vehicle fame has designed and built a lecky motor with a better power to weight ratio than a jet engine.  He says that fuel cells are the way to go and he intends to build a range of vehicles (sensible ones) that use his motor as soon as fuel cell technology has picked up a bit.

Out of interest that ecycle thing is supposed to have performance on a par with modern sports 600s and a range that is similar due to the fact that the petrol engine is in there really as a battery charger.  i saw another one with the same idea but it had a 650 single (petrol) in it - if you're going to have a 650 single in the bike then you might as well just use that in my opinion.

Am I wrong - or do leccy vehicles generally not have gears as such - but just forward backward option?  That'd be weird - real twist'n'go!

Oi Barra,
Did them yoosless stoodents ever complete the noise elimination/balancing ear plug tests??

:oops:

I think they look a bit wierd because even from the early days, bikes have a a fuel tank, usually is usually located in the same place on the bike. Looking at the ecycle, I imagine they no longer need the same sort of capacity. So we may see tank design radically changing. IMHO.


May take a bike of getting used to.

What do you reckon is the future for vehicles, specifically bikes, as it becomes obvious that fossil fuels wont last forever?

Personally I think we should buy diesels and run them on rape seed oil  - it's renewable, we can grow our own and farmers will get rich and the Arabs can get stuffed.

many reckon electricity is the answer but styling is always kak.  I found these three though that look quite nice.

Fuel cells. That means vehicles will be electric and require a top-up of gas and/or water to run, so petrol stations would be converted accordingly.

Electric vehicles need not look crap. What we need is the main manufacturers to get on the case and design the power unit into a decent-looking bike. They will do that I'm sure, when fuel cell technology has advanced another 10 years or so.

Bikes will need to be fitted with a special MP3 player, pre-recorded with exhaust sounds like Termig, Micron etc, and a loud aplifier and speakers, otherwise they will be even quieter than today!  :eyebrow:

Thought major prob with leccy was the cost at the power station end but what the hell - I know nothing.


Why don't we start chopping down all the trees and let them rot and then in time they'll become fossil fuel, then we can pump them back out the ground and make petrol.  simple.  :wwww:

i always fancied the idea of a power cell trike but could not find anyone that was interested in sponsering the project.
even went onto a few e-car sites but none of the emails i sent out where even answered.

We've got a research group involved in this stuff.  So far they've got sponsorship with the City council for a hydrogen powered vehicle. See Here

They've also got a fuel cell set up (bit too close to my office for my liking   :sus:)  and a four wheel buggy with lots of solar panels on, but they wouldn't gimme a shot. Rats!

The best bit is the modified perkins diesel engine which runs on methane.  Plan is to capture the gas from cow sheds and use it to generate lecky.  Long term? Smaller gennys strapped to cows backs with a hose pipe stuffed up their outlet

Barra