I'd ride one! Of course my first mod would be to install an electronic boom box setup so that it would sound like a Harley! To loud officer? Why, what ever do you mean? It's electric!

 

I was thinking of putting a playing card in the spokes.

 

Your poll asks if I would ride one. Yes, I would ride it to check it out. Buy one? Nope.

 

I think that an electric motorcycle is a poor idea. Thanks to American fracking, gas is cheap and likely to stay cheap. I do not see the point of an electric motorcycle, given this simple fact. There is a lot more energy in 5 gallons of gas than can be crammed into any battery likely to fit on a motorcycle. That's basic physics. Plus you can fill up a tank in 60 seconds, while recharging a battery will likely take 30 minutes or more.

 

True in all respects.

The overall cycle of fossil fuel use and negative enviro impact INCREASES with electrical vehicles, just as this gentleman has put forth. Its a fools errand to pursue this based on the desire to decrease enviro impact.

This is patently false in the long term. If it even approaches equality now it is due to the artificial subsidies and offsets put forth by governments to prop up these technologies, which upon removal (which will inevitably come due to market forces), will cause massive cost increases. The emperor has no clothes, y'all.

 

No, I don't think the Prius is cool either...

 

This is tantalizing

 

I don't know if you posted anything worth reading after this gem....

So you guys are torque junkies... have you ever driven a Tesla?

100% torque, all the way through the powerband. Electric motors are very different from gas engines.

Go drive a Tesla, then come tell me you wouldn't ride an electric Harley.

It's not about the eco-crap.. It's raw unadulterated POWER

 

I've had everything from small 2 strokes, to big V-twins. My bike is my toy and recreation,not my primary mode of transportation. I like the rumble of a big internal combustion engine. I probably wouldn't ride a Goldwing, not that they are bad or anything; I just like my somewhat old school feeling Harley.

I wouldn't rule out purchasing an electric cage at some point in the future, although I'm certainly looking at them now.

Buy an electric bike, uh uh; not a chance.

 

Most people don't realize that locomotives are electric for this very reason...no engine on the planet will take off and pull 100 coal cars...locomotives have a diesel engine...that turns a generator...that powers the electric motors that turn the wheels.