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Downtown 300 / Re: Electric Avenue
« on: June 04, 2022, 11:12:05 AM »
Hi Neil

Good to hear from you.

The legs doing fine. It's got more metal than a DT300 though!

I think I'll need to get someone involved if I go any further with the idea. I can imagine theres a fair bit of fabrication required.

Cheers!


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Downtown 300 / Re: Electric Avenue
« on: June 02, 2022, 10:18:08 PM »
That's interesting Rufus. In the UK, as I understand it, it's the chassis that is registered and tested etc. Making your own chassis and getting approved is a regulatory nightmare, so if your building a car from the ground up borrow an already homologated chassis (see Top Gear when they build an electric car - the Hammerhead iThrust)

.......you can install any engine you like. A change to the reg docs is fairly straightforward and a notification to your insurer is pretty much it (I think!)

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Downtown 300 / Re: Electric Avenue
« on: June 02, 2022, 05:24:49 PM »
Hey Rufus

Thanks for that. Electric looks like fun eh?

I reckon about a grand for the motor. Probably the same again for the batteries. Plus fitting.

Hmmm. But it looks a laugh. How wonder how much a ludicrous mode would be :-)

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Downtown 300 / Re: Electric Avenue
« on: June 02, 2022, 04:47:09 PM »
Hey Karl

Good to hear from you.

Not really a project yet....more of an idea.

I've got as far as Googling 'what size of electric motor equals 30 horsepower?'

(22kw if you're interested)

Cheers!

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Downtown 300 / Electric Avenue
« on: June 02, 2022, 11:19:30 AM »
Good afternoon all

I hope you're all doing well

Listen, I still have my DT, but I've not ridden is for a couple of years or more. Mainly due to COVID but also a non biking related busted leg.

My thoughts are turning back to digging it out of the back of the shed again (I'll need to remove a ton of stuff that's accumulated on top of it first though :-).

....and it got me thinking about an electric conversion. Same sort of power (say 30 horsepower). I'm not bothered about range as long as I have 80 miles in the batteries. Theres quite lot of room on the DT for batteries if you're willing to give up the underseat storage (which I am). I think the existing CVT set up mated to an electric motor would work quite well.

Does anyone have any knowledge on electric conversions for scooters?

Cheers!

Snorvey

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General Discussion / Re: Anyone bought a Kawasaki H-2?
« on: June 10, 2021, 12:43:19 PM »
If anyone is wondering what a 1l supercharged Kawasaki lump sounds like...


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Eye Candy | Videos and Pics / Re: Its been a long winter.
« on: April 14, 2021, 12:09:42 PM »
His metalworking on this thing is amazing!
Seems like it'd be simpler, and safer, to ride with a bit of weather gear on.
Still - amazing craftsmanship - which I think might have been the point of the whole rodeo?

Stig

Yeah its not pretty, but not bad for a (well equipped) shed job.

Still - amazing craftsmanship - which I think might have been the point of the whole rodeo?

Maybe. But I think the line between cars and bikes is starting to blur. Yamaha's Tricity 300 for example:

https://www.yamaha-motor.eu/gb/en/products/scooters/urban-mobility/tricity-300/

...can be ridden on a car licence in the UK. A bit more weather protection and a bigger motor (maybe electric) and you could be well into the massive car driver commuter market.

.....and for Stig. J Clarkson had a ride in a similar Swiss built machine way back in the early years of Top Gear. These things were also home built, powered by a BMW K series motor and very expensive. Looks like fun though!






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Eye Candy | Videos and Pics / Its been a long winter.
« on: April 10, 2021, 10:11:55 AM »
C'mon Kymco. Make a scoot that's for the chillier climate.


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General Discussion / Re: Stig's Christmas card
« on: December 18, 2020, 03:20:03 PM »
Oh no, it's been too long since I last had Haggis, you've got me yearning some now Snorvey!

Another month or so Neil and we can have some haggis on the appropriate night  ;D

Obligatory joke - What happened when Robert Burns walked into a pub?

The barman said 'Get out your Bard'


A festive joke. Did you hear about the dyslexic Devil worshipper? He sold his soul to Santa.

And on that dreadful note, Merry Christmas!

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General Discussion / Re: Stig's Christmas card
« on: December 16, 2020, 06:59:56 PM »
dang....looks like a longs ways between donuts out there!

Cup o' tea and fancy baked cakes in a local cafe are the order of the day in this part of the world.....



Other than that, I am reliably informed that the local delicacy (other than the much maligned haggis) is.....


......the deep fried Mars Bar.

One day maybe. Most likely after the doctor has told me Ive got a week to live or something.

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General Discussion / Re: Stig's Christmas card
« on: December 15, 2020, 07:15:07 PM »
Merry Christmas to you and your family Stig.

And to the rest of you on here of course.


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General Discussion / Re: Ooooo, mighta been premature
« on: November 10, 2020, 03:37:10 PM »
Sounds like a case of Premature Buckeyelation

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Eye Candy | Videos and Pics / Re: Fall colors in Tennessee
« on: October 31, 2020, 08:03:37 PM »
According to a popular genealogy website, I may have fairly close relations in Tennessee. It looks lovely.

There was another poster from the same state that used to post on here. A really nice guy. Wonder why he stopped posting.....hope he's ok.


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Cheers Neil & Stig


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They're former industrial buildings from when the town was full of fishing boats - all gone now of course.  It was an overcast day (this is Scotland after all) and a lot of shops are subject to Covid restrictions, meaning is not as busy as usual. It's not a very big town anyway - maybe 7 or 8 thousand inhabitants.


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