Honda’s Electric CBR 600 Cycle
From Source Autopia – The guys from Square Wave Racing are headed to the TTXGP electric motorcycle grand prix this weekend at Infineon Raceway north of San Francisco. John Wild and Sean Ewing are putting the finishing touches on the SWR1 but say all systems are go. They sent along a couple of pics of their DIY bike ready to ride.
As we told you last week, the bike is a 1996 Honda CBR 600 F3 converted to electric power with a three-phase AC motor and an 8-kilowatt-hour lithium-iron phosphate battery. That’s huge, but they want to make sure they’ve got plenty of juice for the 25-mile race. Wild hopes to break 100 mph during the race, which would be a big deal since the winner of last year’s TTXGP on the Isle of Man averaged 87.43 mph.
Wild and Ewing spent about $10,000 building the bike. They’re strictly a low-buck DIY operation so they’re doing a little fund-raising to cover their expenses getting to California from Ohio. Click here if you want to help them out.
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