GeorgiePorgie
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Sharc if you don’t use it you lose it.
No stroke. LOL
Old guys – no strokes;
f- yeah I’m down with that.
I am done with motocross on electric bikes. That's when I sell everything and buy me a boat. With a great big loud motor.
Lmao..... all you crying about electric being stupid and a fad. Sorry but the facts contradict you. Electric vehicles are the future, no question. EV car sales went up 40% in 17 alone, this year Tesla is mass producing the Model 3 so the growth will be even greater this year. Ive wired 3 homes in the last month for EV charging stations. Ive wired about 20 stations in the past year in commercial locations. Tesla has used Electric semi trucks to move materials. The Alta is plenty fast from what Ive heard, the batteries are another issue for now. But there is no question there is going to be an electric vehicle revolution shortly. There is no avoiding it.
I will always have my 125 though!!!
So you wired a few houses up means electric is the future ? Get real man lol. The sales are up on them yes, but that means nothing and they still account for less then 1 percent of the automobile sales. Sorry man, the technology just isn’t there yet.
Who said anything about yet??? Yes, wiring houses up for it does mean its the future. Sales growth of 40% in one year is huge, this year will be higher. Have you driven a Tesla ? Bad ass. All the comforts of a luxury sedan and stupid fast. There are countries where the EV sales are a much larger portion of sales than the USA.
You can deny it all you want, in 1999 nobody would have said 4 strokes would EVER work for mx. That was just one industry pushing for it, the ENTIRE world is pushing for clean energy. Tesla along with a few other manufacturers have proven the tech is here now and worth it.
EV sales
Top Months for U.S. EV Sales to Date (estimated):
- July 2018 – 29,514
- March 2018 – 26,373
- December 2017 – 26,107
- June 2018 – 25,019
- December 2016 – 24,785
For comparison the Ford Focus sold 8993 units in July of 18. I know Im comparing all EV sales to one car but there arent too many EV vehicle models to buy yet. But it goes to show you they arent a fad.
Ok so I spent a few hours this afternoon riding the Alta Redshift MXR and I can tell you it’s not a fad. The bike is good right now, I jumped on it right off my 17 Husky FC 450 and was perfectly comfortable on it immediately. It doesn’t do anything weird, it rides just like my gas powered MX bike, jumps just fine, turns just fine, has plenty of power, goes fast, gets good traction, and feels just like my bike without the noise. The biggest unnerving thing I could say is that when you hit a jump just right and don’t need to correct the attitude of the bike in the air and let off the throttle, it just goes silent! That on my gas bike means that I stopped the rear wheel with the rear brake and stalled the motor, on landing I’ll have a little lurch to get it bump started and running again, but on the Alta, it’s just lands with no issues and starts rolling without any lurch or anything and starts making the whirring sound again.
The bike is great and you can’t believe how easy to ride it is!
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They’ll have something when it doesn’t take a tech to do a battery swap