Last we saw of Terry Hershner last night had him going to a motel for sleep after SNAFU’ing his bike. This morning Terry posted the following update: Today in Austin I’m hoping to meet with the folks at ReVolt and do a custom electrical connection repair. In the meantime here’s…
Terry Hershner was doing pretty good, made it to Austin at a reasonable time today. But, then, Texas took its toll on his trip, and I suppose beating the record is now out of the question. On Facebook, Terry explained that they’d been at the Whole Foods charging and showing…
The other day we learned of a new electric motorcycle racing series that will be run under the AHRMA umbrella. There’s actually a fair bit of history of AHRMA hosting electric motorcycle racing, and I thought it might be worth recounting that history. First, AHRMA is the American Historic Racing…
This morning, Terry Hershner appears to still be stuck in West Texas. When I went to bed last night he’d made it past El Paso, and was on the highway and looked like he’d make it to San Antonio or farther by morning. This morning we see the report below,…
It’s 9pm PST, 1 1/2 days into Terry Hershner’s trip in which he’s attempting to set a record for cross country electric motorcycle travel. The Facebook post embedded below was posted 5 hrs ago, from El Paso, his last status update a few minutes ago shows him now on the…
Overnight Terry Hershner and Bun Bun ran into a couple delays – an accident on I-10 that blocked the road for a few hours, and then strong headwinds that increased energy usage. Even with that improved aerodynamic fairing, riding directly into a headwind still takes up a lot of energy. …
Terry Hershner’s modified Zero S, in Craig Vetter’s shop Terry Hershner has taken a 2012 Zero S – the same one which Jeremiah Johnson rode in the 2012 TTXGP World Final at Daytona Beach (see the video at the end of an article I wrote on him) – and modified…
Brammo, whom we know mostly for ultra-fast electric motorcycle prototypes, and reasonably fast electric street bikes, is also looking to build an electric sports car for plus-sized people. Ahem, like Brammo CEO Craig Bramscher. If Tesla Motors’ product plans seem eerily like the personal needs of CEO Elon Musk (first…
KillaCycle Racing has posted a few more pictures and statements. The short story is, that while the rain has let up the organizers will decide on Monday whether to cancel the event. Post by KillaCycle Racing. Post by KillaCycle Racing. Post by KillaCycle Racing.
KillaCycle Racing is back at the Bonneville Salt Flats for “Mike Cook’s ShootOut”. Racing was originally scheduled to start on Friday ..but.. heck Eva wrote it pretty well, so rather than rephrase it, I’ll paste it in here. I will note that, as Eva says, Drayson Racing is there as…
Shane Turpin, Empulse RR, Laguna Seca, 2013 eRoadRacing The gauntlet is thrown – let’s see if Formula E will pick it up. Brammo, the electric motorcycle company whose electric race bike, the Empulse RR, is among the top tier of electric superbikes, posted this on Facebook this morning: Spark-Renault SRT_01E…
Yesterday I reported on the Bonneville land speed racing last week, saying that Lightning Motorcycles had probably set a new record. I’ve now talked with Richard Hatfield, and learned that they did set an official AMA and FIM land speed record for electric motorcycles, however they didn’t get to beat…
KillaCycle Racing wasn’t the only electric motorcycle team at Bonneville this week. Lightning Motorcycles was there too, but they didn’t post as much on Facebook and I haven’t had a chance to talk with them. On Aug 26 they posted: “We’re super excited to say that today, on the legendary…
It’s land speed racing time at the Bonneville Salt Flats and I see from Facebook that both Lightning Motorcycles and KillaCycle racing were there. In this post I’ll cover what KillaCycle posted on Facebook. The big takeaway is that they made it into the 201+ miles/hr club, it’s not clear…
From Facebook Just before Sunday’s eRoadRacing race in Indianapolis, Brian Wismann posted a long “here’s the latest from Team Brammo” on Facebook that gave some interesting details. First and most heartening is that the Brammo paddock had a constant stream of visitors “since Friday” which is typically a slow day. …
