This is where the fairly high power/weight ratio really becomes noticeable -- you keep on accelerating long after alesser powered vehicle with roughly the same frontal area has "hit the wall". As others have mentioned the "low" speed performance isn't really better than some stock bikes as it is traction limited. ( See http://www.tecaeromex.com/ingles/sar-i/motoi.html for an interesting method to avoid the traction issue).
Actually Thomas Edison's business model was pretty much:
1. Identify a need.
2. Invent/develop a product.
3. Patent it.
4. Sell it. (Hated competition too as evidenced by his bizzare fight to stick with DC power transmission)
One of the smartest of American inventors but hardly an Open Sorcerer of the RMS mold.
Uh, the PMRC was an organization invented by Tipper Gore and some of her cronies in DC. (Probably about the same time that Al was inventing the internet)
Slashdot Mirror
This is where the fairly high power/weight ratio really becomes noticeable -- you keep on accelerating long after alesser powered vehicle with roughly the same frontal area has "hit the wall". As others have mentioned the "low" speed performance isn't really better than some stock bikes as it is traction limited. ( See http://www.tecaeromex.com/ingles/sar-i/motoi.html for an interesting method to avoid the traction issue).
Sounds a lot like choosing between castration with a spoon vs. a screwdriver.
Actually Thomas Edison's business model was pretty much: 1. Identify a need. 2. Invent/develop a product. 3. Patent it. 4. Sell it. (Hated competition too as evidenced by his bizzare fight to stick with DC power transmission) One of the smartest of American inventors but hardly an Open Sorcerer of the RMS mold.
Uh, the PMRC was an organization invented by Tipper Gore and some of her cronies in DC. (Probably about the same time that Al was inventing the internet)