![]() ![]() This time though, the custom e-bike transports us back in time a mere 40 years to glory days of the 1980s. Just like the MOSH/CHOPPER, the new MOSH/BMX was crafted by Warren Heir, Jr., and Kendall Lutchman at JR’s Fabrication and Welding in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It eventually sold at auction for $14,200, and now the company is hoping to repeat the magic with another eye-catching and nostalgia-inducing electric bike: the MOSH/BMX. The last time around, Serial 1 unveiled a ’60s chopper style e-bike known as the MOSH/CHOPPER. Rich folks’ money goes to people who actually need it. Serial 1, the electric bicycle startup spun off last year by Harley-Davidson, crafts each e-bike in the series and then auctions them off to benefit a charity. If you are looking for a retro BMX ebike, check out the Zooz. The e-bikes in the 1-OFF series are more than just limited editions though they are one-of-a-kinds. It’s the latest addition to Serial 1’s 1-OFF limited edition series. You could almost imitate another bike.Harley-Davidson has just pulled the sheet off its most recent custom electric bicycle, the Serial 1 MOSH/BMX. Is it the same with acceleration?Įxactly. It's mappable, it's individual, it can be done on the fly. Can you tell about the engine braking on this bike? If you want to go faster and you want to feel speed, and you want to feel like you're acting upon speed and controlling that by degrees and percentages, nothing comes close to an electric bike. ![]() It truly is a more Zen-like experience than a gas bike. I see how much these bikes can improve over the next couple of years. You get on this bike, and have an extreme appreciation for how fast you can go and how slow it. All those fun things we have to build aroundbasically the deficiencies of the bike. I like the downshifting, I like the upshifting, I like the uneven torque. Not a very good comparison.įour years into this, I still appreciate the gas bikes immensely for the things that are exciting. What do you expect? It was the first bike, and I had just gotten off a bike that had been in development for 50 years. The bike was heavier, it was far slowerthere was no benefit. The first time I got on an electric bike, I had no passion for the electric drive system at all. The best insight, of course, is spending time and riding them. There's no bystander that walks up to that bike and says, "That's going to be the future, that's a better bike than the gas bike," without having some insight. You don't get this perspective on day one, or as a bystander. It truly makes the other bikes feel antiquated. What's it like riding the E1pc, with its throttle response and lack of gears? We know that if we could get more time, or get the rider more comfortable, get the tires right. Yeah! Rutter was on his sixth lapeverand was at 120 mph to Ramsey. Honda does eight or nine laps over a two-day period, because they have multiple practices, and those guys can go out and do three or four or five laps. Even though we've been there three years, each time we go we get three laps per rider per year. Most riders are between 120 mph and 130 mph. The top gas-powered bikes are around 129 mph, right? But, a 120 mph lap,, that's a no-joke lap. He was first out of the box and didn't want anybody to catch his draft. The other thing is that Michael was pushing very, very hard at the beginning. Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play But he was on that and still finished the race. Now, anybody can do that, two-thirds of the way. Something most people don't know is that up until Ramsey, we were on a 120 mph lap, which is unbelievable. Tell us about the 104 mph your rider, Michael Rutter, hit at this year's TT. So, some of the ideal locations for the air and intake that would benefit the motor we can use to benefit the aero of the bike. We also don't have an air box or an intake box. If you look at what's happening with motorcyclesparticularly street modelsmufflers are significant, and they're extremely un-aerodynamic. No exhaust system, and particularly, no muffler. What do you need to lose to make an electric bike more aerodynamic? Why wouldn't that be a priority? I can work on the thing that's 90 percent or I can work on the thing that's 10 percent. Certainly, accelerating and decelerating consumes a lot of energy, but at some places like the Isle of Man or on the freeway, where you're sustaining speeds, 90 percent of your energy is going to part the air. Just how much of the bike's power goes toward moving the air out of the way? Motorcycles are notoriously bad aerodynamically, and aerodynamics are especially important on electric bikes.
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