Energica Ego in San Francisco CRP’s Energica Ego has been several years coming – in 2010, CRP came onto the TTXGP scene with the eCRP, a bike patterned after the Agni Motors entry in the 2009 TTXGP on the Isle of Man. This was the act of a motorcycle manufacturer…
Pick your jaw up off the floor after reading this – Harley Davidson has designed an awesome looking electric motorcycle, and is touring it around the U.S. to gather feedback. One of the most major motorcycle manufacturers of all time is taking an interest in electric motorcycles, riding into a…
Harley Davidson just dropped a bombshell, stunning the motorcycle world by announcing the company’s first electric motorcycle. Instead of the obnoxious Harley Sound, the bike has the high pitch whine we know and love from electric motorcycle racing. The bike looks awesome, and initial response in the articles I’ve seen…
Sarolea isn’t the only historical motorcycle brand being revived for the electric age, Spain’s Bultaco Motors is relaunching as an electric motorcycle company. The brand has a strong history dating back to 1958, and had many racing wins to its credit. However, the company had shut down until the Bulto…
Lightning Motorcycles is making good this weekend on a promise – that they would go into production of the “race bike” with which the company has won races in the TTXGP, at Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, and land speed records. This weekend at the Quail Motorcycle Gathering, Lightning Motorcycles…
Legendary Belgian motorcycle brand, Saroléa Motorcycles, is returning to racing by entering an electric motorcycle in the 2014 TT ZERO. The bike, the Saroléa SP7 (see below), is a real head-turner, is built with a carbon-fibre frame with an electric motor giving 400 Nm (294.8 lb-ft) and 180 horsepower, for…
It pays to carefully study the sponsor graphics when a team releases specs on their new bike, eh? When you don’t you tend to miss big pieces of news – such as Mission Motors supplying drive train parts to Team Mugen. And it turns out that the 2013 Mugen Shinden…
Brutus Motorcycles is sponsoring Jeremiah Johnson to race their electric motorcycle on Pikes Peak this year. I covered the information a month or so ago. They just posted some pictures of the race bike with the graphics, as well as the race trailer and some other things. From the looks…
In 2013 the OSU Buckeye Current team made their first trip to compete in the TT ZERO, and took third place overall. The team’s website currently says they are building a new bike, the RW-2, and are looking to ride their momentum and again take a podium spot. Mum is…
Earlier in the day I saw a Facebook posting saying, unconfirmed, that MotoCzysz was not going to participate in the TT ZERO 2014. Not wanting to publish something without confirmation, I sent an email to Michael Czysz asking for clarification. I haven’t received an answer from him, but halfway through…
For years we’ve had electric powered racing, whether it’s drag racing (NEDRA and the like), go-karts, motorcycles (TTXGP and the like) or cars (Formula E, Formula Lightning, etc). Electrically powered racers ran in separate classes, and often separate events, because while electric race vehicles might be fast enough they didn’t…
Darvill Racing has announced (on Friday) a historic agreement in which they will be the first electrically powered motorcycle racing team to compete directly against gasoline powered bikes in a regular road race. They’ll be competing in the “Southern 100 Road Races” which is an ACU/FIM sanctioned event held on…
Jeremiah Johnson on the Brutus V2 Rocket Brutus Electric Motorcycles and Bell Custom Cycles announced today they’re entering the 92nd Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, and that they’ve signed Jeremiah Johnson as the rider. Brutus manufactures a small line of motorcycles that includes cruiser and cafe racer style bikes. For…
Brammo announced today that Darvill Racing would be contesting the 2014 FIM eRoadRacing World Cup as a factory supported team. This is both great for Brammo, and the first sign that there will be a 2014 eRoadRacing series. Darville will be running with two “Factory-supported privateer Brammo machines”. One is…
I neglected to post an update on Terry Hershner’s ride yesterday and today, so here goes. They’d made it to Houston yesterday, and today are in Louisana, but one last problem had to occur. At 10:30PM their time last night, the rear tire went flat. After getting repairs done –…
