Video footage from TTXGP zero-emissions motorcycle race
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Unfortunately, it wasn't possible to watch live footage here in the United States of the world's first zero-emissions motorcycle race, which took place this morning on the famed Isle of Man. The good news is that the organizers of the TTXGP have finally gotten some footage of the event loaded up on the internet.
If you don't yet know who won and aren't ready to find out, don't watch the video or click here for our initial recap of the race. For the rest of us, there's plenty of cool footage to see after the break, including a couple of the bikes staging for the race, some nice on-bike footage from the race winner as he streaks past some slower-moving traffic and some interviews with the riders and a few of the men behind the electric machinery.
Here's hoping that 2010's running of the TTXGP proves even more successful in promoting high-performance, zero-emissions vehicles.
[Source: TTXGP]
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jpm 8:30PM (6/12/2009)
Nice footage, despite the low quality.
Hooray for ZEMs!
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jpm 8:35PM (6/12/2009)
I also wanted to say it would cool if there was a DVD with more footage, interviews with each team, video showing off each bike ... etc.
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gorr 8:55PM (6/12/2009)
If they had put a smaller battery along with a small gasoline or diesel electric generator then they could have organized a 1 to 2 hours race, im sure they struck their fragile battery be depleting it fast.
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jpm 9:13PM (6/12/2009)
what part of zero emissions race don't you understand??
Chris M 2:04AM (6/13/2009)
They're not going to pay any attention to you at all, Gorr, as they believe in Lithium battery technology, and know it will work just fine.
Which reminds me. Gorr, didn't you say you can't associate with people who don't believe as you do? We don't believe as you do, so why are you still here?
gorr 9:56AM (6/13/2009)
Let me do my buying bid as i want. Im destructing the technologies i don't want and im bidding on technologies i want to buy, is that simple enouph? A green car or green motorcycle or even a green ships or an green electrical generation unit must offer on-par or better performance then an actual equivalent with less fuel cost and fewer pollution and fewer acquisition price. Don't bother me with hard penalties compromises like this motorbike or a tesla where you can be struck on the road any time with sudden and inpredictably loss of power and hours recharge time at great cost. I want better, faster, more powerful and cheaper price. This is possible with actual brains that sit on earth. Sure the brains that ever put gasoline in a tank and have paid to do so are feeling guilty and fuzzy and acts like zombies but im still asking for green technology to put on sale near where i live for cash. I want a 2 strokes ice with a gazeous hydrogen injector place into the cylinder head with water mist too. Believe in me, this is the futur. You never heard this one anywhere. It's me the first to bid on that, this is the best thing never envision and i will buy it one day. This tasteless motorcycle compagny could have explored it while messing with this limp battery.
Matt 9:05PM (6/13/2009)
Quit using translators and just post on blogs in your own language. You are not changing anyone's mind, and if you're trying to get your message out you're failing miserably.
dingo 12:00AM (6/13/2009)
Congratulations to Agni! I know which motors I am gonna buy now for my projects. Excellent work!.
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Chris M 2:05AM (6/13/2009)
Exciting race, I'm looking forward to it being a regular annual event.
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Stan Wellaway 3:33AM (6/13/2009)
Check out TTxGP on youtube.com for a growing number of video clips of the event. More should appear after the weekend when those who attended the event are back home and can upload.
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Stan Wellaway 4:38AM (6/15/2009)
Gorr can scowl till the cows come home - flogging dead horses is his bag - but this was a real milestone in motoring history.
Over the past year, I've followed the various individual electric bike reports published on autobloggreen, and enjoyed knowing that so much was going on. But this is the first chance they've all had to come together and pit their technologies against each other in one setting. And what a setting - the famous 37.7 mile TT course no less.
The motorbike journals always give major coverage to the annual TT Races. And they are all giving great coverage to the TTxGP. There's no going back - a whole new chapter in motorbike history has begun.
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JoeKing 3:11PM (6/15/2009)
Stan talks about flogging dead horses, but the only dead horse I saw at the TT was this silly exhibition of the dead-end technology of ..batteries. I doubt Stan is a motorcyclist because if he was he would understand that motorcycles don't exist for practicality; they exist to excite the senses & for fun. These devices instill the same lust as a new refrigerator.
Battery technology over the last 100 years has made MUCH LESS progress than the ICE during the same period. Battery energy density has grown from 40watts/l to 300w/l..bfd. Gasoline's is 9700.
Yes, this ridiculous spectacle will be repeated for perhaps another 5 years as they struggle to reach "the ton" (100mph lap) accomplished 50+ years ago with a "real" motorcycle, and will be euthonized because of boredom.
This race(?) exists for the singular purpose for the motorcyle community's desire to assuage its collective guilt for their sinful enjoyment of their machines in this increasingly socially conscious world based on the false premise of the ICE's destruction of the environment.
GoodCheer 1:55PM (6/13/2009)
Please delete this spammer.
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DasBoese 12:06AM (6/14/2009)
I'm sure that this will be looked upon as nothing short of a historic moment in the decades to come, just like the first TT was over 100 years ago.
The performance of these electric race bikes may not be impressive compared to ICE-powered sport bikes, but let's not forget that some of the motorcycles participating in the original TT still had pedals attached ;)
And god, the sounds... anyone who thinks electric motorcycles lack exciting sound needs their ears examined.
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