Dawn of the Electric Drag Bikes

Although most Electric Motorcycles are some what limited in their top speed, things are changing.Keep watching folks, it's about to get interesting, as a quantum leap is going to take place.

In 1973, Mike Corbin sets the 1st Electric Motorcycle Land Speed Record. Speed, a very hot 101 mph. He was definitely jazzed,
because the next year, 1974, the company he founded, Corbin-Gentry Inc. begins selling a street legal Electric Motorcycle. Gentry wasn't interested in drag racing, just in selling bikes. He did several runs for the Land Speed Record though, which he achieved. A Corbin Gentry entry held the Land Speed Record for Electric Motorcycles at 171 MPH, set in 1974 for quite some time.

Starting with Mr Rannberg's Kawashoki, we go thru Kawashoki 2, Kawashoki 3, to end with Kawashoki 2000. We see the Kawashoki 430 and the ReVolt 430, which is a step from 300+ volt battery packs to 430 volt battery packs. Getting faster ET's and hitting higher top speeds. All these bikes are purpose built racing bikes, not street able. However as engineering testbeds they point to way to the future. Several people started racing electrics, each pushing the performance envelope.


May 27,2000

Bruce Meland turns a 12.661 ET @ 112.94 MPH with Kawashocki III. Now we're talking! Hold on to your hats,folks, because here comes,

KILLACYCLE

Now we're talking a serious bullet here! This thing hit 152.07 mph with an ET of 9.45 seconds on August 26, 2000. It uses dual Advanced DC 6.7" motors, modified for racing, running 312 volts, supplied by Boulder Technologies 624 thin-film lead-acid cells, with a Zilla 1400 amp controller. It has since been upgraded to use 880 A123 Lithium-Ion batteries, supplying 900 pack amps at 374 volts. With this setup this BAD-BOY ran a 8.760 @ 145.44 at Las Vegas in 2006. You have got to take a look at the video on their website, truly AWESOME!

http://www.killacycle.com/

Man, I want one!