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Fuck em. I don't care about your kids. ____________________ Chickenystripgeezer's Biking Life (Latest update 19/10/18) Belgium, France, Italy, Austria tour 2016 Picos de Europa, Pyrenees and French Alps tour 2017 Scotland Trip 1, now with BONUS FEATURE edit, 5/10/19, on page 2 Scotland Trip 2 Luxembourg, Black Forest, Switzerland, Vosges Trip 2017
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Undinist Nearly there...
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Ste Not Work Safe
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Everyone should do more miles and use more petrol before the oil runs out or the internal combustion engine gets smacked with the ban hammer. |
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In the uk a motorcycle for most people is a recreational 'toy' and I for one do not like throwing my toys away.
Replace that fuel burning toy with an electric bike that doesn't weigh a metric ton and can do 200 miles and can be recharged in say half an hour then yeah I'd begin to accept that.
...but as for an electric vehicle being a 'green' machine I'm still not sure about that. Factor in the manufacturing process of batteries, the way in how they are charged and their lifespan...disposal ..
To answer your questions:
No.
Maybe.
It is about time that dirty diesel cars and vans were eff'd-off.
Way overdue that some thoughtful re-planting of trees n bushes to soak up some of the pollutants, reduce traffic noise, reduce earth slips after heavy rain and generally make urban places a little bit nicer to pass through. ____________________ Diabolical homemade music Bandcamp and Soundcloud
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If it means I can plant Palm trees in my garden I'd happily richen up the mixture ____________________ I clean my guns with the tears of the snivelling, left wing scum. |
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No. If I find one of these at a reasonable price, I'm having one.
https://www.dieselbike.net/royalenfield/VegterRoyalEnfield.jpg ____________________ Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
Currently : Royal Enfield 350 Meteor
Previously : CB100N > CB250RS > XJ900F > GT550 > GPZ750R/1000RX > AJS M16 > R100RT > Bullet 500 > CB500 > LS650P > Bullet Electra X & YBR125 > Bullet 350 "Superstar" & YBR125 Custom > Royal Enfield Classic 500 Despatch Limited Edition (28 of 200) & CB Two-Fifty Nighthawk > ER5 |
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Undinist Nearly there...
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I care so much about the environment I've stopped building ebikes for the time being and switched to restoring a >40yo 2-stroke. Take from that what you will
Without this degenerating too much into an electric bike thread, some things to consider....
It takes 4~6 hours to charge a typical ebike battery (e.g. 48V 10Ah) from something like a 100W charger.
In theory you could pull 3000W from a typical UK mains socket so that's 30x the power available.
You'd want something like a 96V battery to make a reasonable e-motorbike battery so it would take 8~12 hours to charge say a 96V 10Ah battery @ 100W but at 3kW? More like <20 mins (assuming you could transfer that sort of power safely.)
My best guesstimate for range obtainable after half hour charging... 50 miles maybe? That's a pretty useful range and we'd only be bending the laws of thermodynamics a little bit ____________________ Husqvarna Vitpilen 401, Yamaha XSR700, Honda Rebel, Yamaha DT175, Suzuki SV650 (loan) Fazer 600, Keeway Superlight 125, 50cc turd scooter |
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xX-Alex-Xx World Chat Champion
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Most of my biking is commuting, so it's better for the environment for me to ride. Shame that. ____________________ DILLIGAF |
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Less than 1% of UK vehicular travel is by motorbike... hmmmm.... we could take every damn one off the road tomorrow... and it would make less difference to our national carbon 'footprint' as oooh... I don't know.... giving my mother cooking lessons to stop her burning salad! (yes seriously! She managed it!)
Meanwhile... the whole Kyoto debate on the presumed connection between climate change and CO2 emissions, remains at best, borrox... the climate has changed hundreds of times over the last 10,ooo years, and by far more and far faster than we have observed in 'modern' times, since the Dodo dies, and they started keeping records at the UK Meteorological society!!!! Let alone the last century the infernal combustion engine's been about!
It's NOT a scientifically 'proven' fact, that CO2 and green-house gas emissions are causing climate change. It is a THEORY.
A widely accepted one perhaps, but even then, exponents start stuttering and back pedalling on their 'convictions' about it, when confronted with questions about how many tons of green-house gasses, alleged to cause this climate change, come from human activity, compared to 'natural' emissions... like sheep... ISTR that the New-Zealand representative at Kyotyo ridiculed the whole plot, on the little nugget that all the sheep in Kiwi generated more 'green-house' gasses in the form of farts, than all their nation's 'industry'.... Oh-Kay, so they have a LOT of sheep, and not a lot of manufacturing industry.... but still!
Short answer is that you need to believe that Human contributed climate change, IS actually real, before you go any further... and I for one am STILL on the side lines... are we causing global warming or global cooling... go ask a dozen climate scientists, and get me two dozen answers... THEN if you are convinced that human contributed climate change IS real.... of what MIGHT be causing it.... just how much MAY be attributed to CO2 from transport? And THEN, of the CO2 from transport, how much of that is accounted for by 'leisure' transport, in which we can consider most air-line travel, as well as all other 'public' transport, before we get to the small issue of motorbikes....
Fact; crops up time after time, folk considering a motorbike as a way to cut their commuting costs... usually compared to a large family car... when if they do the numbers properly, the average household, 2 adults and 2.4 kids, crank up something like 30,ooo miles a year... of which, less than 1/3 is even remotely 'essential' mileage, and IF they wanted to cut transport costs, they would save more money, and more pollution, each year, walking the kids to school, and walking to the corner shop, rather than driving to the convenience store!
SO NO basically, is the answer, I am NOT planning on giving up my motorbikes for any notional suggestion that it might save the planet!
And Electric Vehicles?!?! Yeah... just yeah! Shift the smoke to China, so we don't have to see it... and all will be well, wont it? ____________________ My Webby'Tef's-tQ, loads of stuff about my bikes, my Land-Rovers, and the stuff I do with them!
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I will add my contribution.
I will get a dirty coal powered bike and ride it around all day
no, it is a real device!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roper_steam_velocipede
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Depends if I am late for work.. ____________________ CBT: 12/06/10, Theory: 22/09/10, Module 1: 09/11/10, Module 2: 19/01/11
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 4 years, 203 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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