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World's First Fuel-Cell Motorcycle
Alex writes "Rubber Magazine reports that the British company Intelligent Energy has unveiled today the first purpose-built, fuel-cell motorbike. The bike has a 6kW (8 hp) electric motor, top speed of 50 mph (80kph), a range of 100 miles (160km). The engine is completely silent, which might not go well with many motorcycle lovers. In addition it could also possibly pose an interesting safety issue, since a pedestrian or motorist would not hear it coming."
The whole "loud pipes saves lives" is just the mantra of a bunch of neanderthal Harley owners who like to rattle the windows of their neighbors so they can say "Hu hu hu that was fun guys" over a couple of beers at the guild hall of morons. A lot of horseshit, in other words.
"not all" is generally 5%, especially for the last 2.
i have yet to see someone who didnt ride their motorcycle around as some kind of penis extender.
i'll give you one point though, i haven't heard a motorcycle yet that was loud enough to knock books off my shelves from across the street like various riceboys do. i've had picture frames shaken off my walls by motorcycle-penis-extenders, but books -- not yet.
I bet if your stupid ass rode a bike you would have loud pipes as well. We have loud pipe so idiots much as yourself can damn sure hear us comming. I cannot tell you how many times I have narrowly escaped serious injury or death because somebody turned in front of me or ran me off the frigging road while changing lanes.
I got a warning ticket for loud pipes last year and guess what I still ain't putting the damn baffles in them.
Then the cop that gave me the ticket said he doesn't like loud pipes because we cannot hear emergency vehicles. I told him to stick his head out his squad car at 70mph and tell me what he can heear with all the wind blowing past his ears.
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Diesel versus gasoline isn't really a fair comparison; the only regular production diesel bike I know of is the one the Marines ride in Iraq and it gets around 100 mpg.
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Harley sure has won over the market then....
Yes it has. They've succeeded by selling the Harley image, because the bikes are basically overpriced oil leaking crap, unless you do extensive work on them (or, more likely, pay someone to do it for you).
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Yep, and a school bus will get 2.8 km/l while massing 10,000 kg....
8 times the mass of your car for only 4 times the fuel (and it's all stop-and-go!)
A semi-tractor can get the same km/l on the highway pulling 36,000 kg. Three times better than the bus.
But weight, there's more, the typical freight train gets twice as many kg*km/l as a semi.
what are you going to use for your daily driver?
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Heh, just to clarify, "weight, there's more" was actually a typo and not an intentional bad pun.
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OH MY GOD YOU MAKE ME LAUGH. Let's go back to my first post, shall we? The person I was referring to was a woman driving a minivan with a stock stereo. She simply had the windows rolled down on a hot sunny day. She was ticketed. YOU COULD NOT HEAR THE MUSIC FROM 200 FT AWAY, AND BESIDES I SAID "A PERSON I KNEW", SINCE WHEN DOES THAT EQUAL ME? Absolutey nobody's rights were being violated as you so incorrectly assumed. Why don't you go back to watching matlock, take out your dentures, and remember to change your depends - they must be full because you are incredibly over-assuming and grouchy.