Brammo Launches First Production Battery-Electric Motorcycle; Uses Valence Li-Ion Batteries

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[moonman]

$11,995 ... WOW!

I can see, maybe, $995 worth of parts, less battery and motor. So in other words, a battery and electric driven motor costs ???.

This is a BIG profit bike!

[martin_fierro]

No rear shocks.

THE DAMN THING’S A HARDTAIL!

[JoeSixPack1]

Cool,, any clue as to who the “Surprise Entertainer” will be this time??

Once bit, twice shy. :-)

[Ed Condon]

Spokesters are inexpensive. For the price of a gallon of milk, you can give your child the fun and excitement only a Spokester can provide. No wonder the Spokester is the perfect stocking stuffer!

Or, for the price of a gallon of milk, you buy the milk, drink it, then cut the plastic jug into ten or fifteen spokster knockoffs and have FUN!!!!!

[BraveMan]

I can just about guarantee it won’t be a Knighted heterophobic Englishman!

[BraveMan]

When are you going to make the call for the annual Show ‘N Shine?

[Melas]

Fox float in the rear. Hardly a hardtail.

[citabria]

Beautiful bike. Had a black one in '01. Don't know where the battery go button is on current ride:

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[BraveMan]

I’ll put away my loud exhaust when they start making cars out of Nerf® . . .

[Seruzawa]

They forgot to mention that if you want to go 45 miles you have to keep it at 25mph.

Worthless junk, like all pure EVs. An environmentalist’s wet dream, though. No one can go far or fast enough to escape when they come to eliminate the “excess” population.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Given the choice, wouldn't you rather ride a REAL bike?

[cweese]

Hehe...no.

[absolootezer0]

Loud pipes save lives.

by that arguement, loud stereos save lives too, right?

[HOTTIEBOY]

Loud pipes save lives ANNOY PEOPLE

[cweese]

Quite twisted logic there. But if you say so...

[cweese]

I see you ride a motorcycle, yet make a dumb comment like that.

[cweese]

I see that you ride a motorcycle, yet make a dumb comment like that.

[absolootezer0]

what’s twisted about it? i’ve had a number of bikers pull out in front of me, ignoring the fact that i’m in a 2ton SUV, travelling at 60MPH, and have a good chance of flattening them. so i crank up my stereo so they can hear me coming over their loud pipes.
i’m just trying to save their lives.

[HOTTIEBOY]

I see you ride a motorcycle, yet make a dumb comment like that.

The bikes I ride are 100% function and performance over style and image. Loud pipes are unnecessary and irritating. They have no effect whatsoever on the performance of a 60hp boat anchor engine and do nothing but annoy the people around you. They are solely for your enjoyment and image and fall into the same category as loud stereos like Zer0 pointed out.

Sound is a byproduct of power...power is NOT a byproduct of sound. Loud pipes on Vtwins are loud. Thats it. Just loud. Why?

I know why....because everybody else has them. They are annoying, period. Just like subwoofers in cars at full volume is annoying. Open pipes are annoying.

Don't get me wrong, its a free country and you can ride with whatever pipes you want. If thats your style, knock yourself out. But you are in the same category as the white boy in the lowered Mazda with his subs a booming. You are both making alot of unnecessary loud noise, annoying people around you to fulfill an image.

[blackie]

I’ll pass ~ you can have mine. >:-}