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The only thing I would add is that even a daily runner can benefit from sitting on a battery tender when not in use. It's easier on the charging system and the battery is always 100% (or close) at the start of a ride.

I like the minimal appearance of the siping on the Pilot Road 2 better than that of the Road 3s, so I'm thinking Road 2 rear and PPIII front. Any feedback on that combo?

Fantastic, Keith! The coffee cup belongs there! I wish I could have joined you, but I was in Colorado in cages for a long weekend... :blink: It's about time for me to go up too and visit my buddy.

Rob, I've been away from VFRD for weeks and just read the thread. I'm terribly sorry to read all this and hope Discovery Channel gets better programming soon! Best wishes for a 90%+ recovery for both the shoulder and foot. Oh, and thanks for taking one for the team! :fing02:

cassandtim just told me about the mishap last night. Pop your head out of the garage for a minute and let us know you're still recovering well, would ya? I hope to see you at the meet, even without your "hot date". :biggrin:

Seb will be at my plave later this month.......were going to bond alright.........yea........bond......... :laugh: What does that say? Seb will be your slave later this month?! Leather and mesh and male bonding...man, did I come to the wrong thread :blink:

I did exactly the same thing, except that I made the hole in the earplugs with a red hot needle. Works great!

True. If you could push any sort of generator into motion and get more energy out than was used to put it into motion, you would achieve "overunity", a condition that would defy the second law of thermodynamics. Although many bull$hit artists claim to have achieved overunity, none of them has ever done it under peer review or for mass production; i.e. it doesn't work in our universe, in which time flows linearly toward entropy. Sad, but true. Of course, many people want to believe in such things anyway, and I know of many who have spent a great deal of time and money trying to beat Newton with hydrogen generators and the like for their cars. Most of them eventually realize that it takes more energy to perform the electrolysis than the hydrogen adds to power produced by the engine. I asked one guy (who was quite gung ho about his pet project) how many amps he was drawing to separate the hydrogen he was introducing to his fuel supply. He assured me that although he had already gone through several alternators, he was just one breakthrough away...You can easily imagine the OCD loop such thinking can trap you into.

I know how you feel. I'm not planning to sell my ICE (internal combustion engine) VFR. I love carefully timed explosions of dino juice as much as the next guy (but painfully aware of the unsustainability of billions of us turning oil into greenhouse gases). On the other hand, the flat plateau and instantaneous torque of an electric motor, when combined with variable regen (imagine being able to program in exactly as much "engine braking" as you want), no shifting (although some electric bikes with lower-output motors do use gearboxes), and eventually traction control, take driving into and out of corners to a new level. Just go in deep trailing the "brakes" (putting energy back into the batteries), hit your apex, and roll on the throttle with no hiccups. The connection between rider and rear wheel is more telepathic than on the best ICE bike. One thing that I value most about the MotoCzysz/TTxGP experience is that I got to see team ideas become concrete reality. This stuff really works. At this point we need a few key ingredients to come together and "electric", "supersport", "lightweight", and "equal to ICE" can all be used in the same sentence with a straight face. Racing will spur innovation to that end like nothing else.

I heard that one team on race day crossed the finish line on foot pushing the bike (legal). Shows a lot of heart from the rider.