View Full Version : Electric race bike smoked...
edj
Tue Jun 21st, 2011, 09:48 AM
This £250,000 prototype electric race bike looks great in the 'before' picture a friend took at Silverstone in UK...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62078500@N05/5852301544/lightbox/
Apparantly batteries can be volatile... after spontaneous combustion and failed attempts to extinguish, they let it burn over night...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62078500@N05/5851751123/lightbox/
Ouch. Maybe gasoline isn't so bad!
bornwildnfree
Tue Jun 21st, 2011, 09:53 AM
Wow...*wince* that sucks
edj
Tue Jun 21st, 2011, 09:58 AM
looking through his flickr there are more sad pictures of the smoldering ruin... would have been cool to see that thing race against the traditional bikes (as I think it was going to)
Wrider
Tue Jun 21st, 2011, 01:11 PM
Personally I like this for the "after" pic.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62078500@N05/5852431582/lightbox/
Spooph
Tue Jun 21st, 2011, 01:18 PM
ouch, that's rough!
CYCLE_MONKEY
Tue Jun 21st, 2011, 01:39 PM
Any battery can be dangerous at high discharge and recharge rates. some explode. Plus, the noxious gasses released are FAR more deadly than a gasoline bike burning down. Bummer.
OUTLAWD
Tue Jun 21st, 2011, 03:14 PM
I suspect it was the italian parts that made it fail :dunno:
CYCLE_MONKEY
Tue Jun 21st, 2011, 08:04 PM
I suspect it was the italian parts that made it fail :dunno:
Hah! They must-a been-a some-a defective ones-a smuggled into a-this country off-a da boat-a. :)
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