Quantya electric mx bike.

Started by rmzRacer293, Jan 10 2008 01:07 PM
43 replies to this topic

  • rmzRacer293

Posted 10 January 2008 - 01:07 PM

#1


http://quantya.com/P...ng/eng_home.htm

these bikes look pretty cool. there here in the US now and in dealer mag it said they are the future of mx! I rode something similar at andraes harley davidson a few months ago and it was pretty cool and fun but i dont see it becoming the future of mx racing.

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  • Jeff_in_RC

Posted 10 January 2008 - 01:33 PM

#2

Well at 10 grand and a 25 mile range at 40mph I don't see them selling to many to the dual sport crowd, unless you carry a Honda EU2000 with you!

  • honcrf150

Posted 10 January 2008 - 02:42 PM

#3

Jeff_in_RC said:

Well at 10 grand and a 25 mile range at 40mph I don't see them selling to many to the dual sport crowd, unless you carry a Honda EU2000 with you!

10k for that lil thing? nevermind, i'll stick with gas

  • Agent2

Posted 10 January 2008 - 02:49 PM

#4

Right now 10 grand and a 25 mile range, give it 5 - 10 years of technology and it probably will be what we are riding. I can imagine 100+ years ago when these new things called "cars" started showing up, people were probably saying the same thing - no way these complicated contraptions are going to replace the horse and buggy.....

  • kawirider6080

Posted 10 January 2008 - 03:48 PM

#5

i hate to admit it but that thing looks like it would be a lot of fun to fool around on. 10,000 seems a bit much though. hahah ill definently hold onto my 2 stroke for as long as i can

  • rmzRacer293

Posted 10 January 2008 - 04:37 PM

#6

yeah i dont see it happening either, but a few months ago some guy was putting on a wheelie show at my local harley dealer and let me ride his electric mx bike, which was pretty similar to that, and it was a blast to ride in the parking lot.

  • El Marko

Posted 10 January 2008 - 05:47 PM

#7

It'll happen. Maybe not for a decade or two, but it'll happen. Of course it will have an iPod port so we can have digital ENGINE SOUNDS to go with it.

  • BrokenR1

Posted 11 January 2008 - 12:39 PM

#8

I want one, that or an electricross one. I'd like to keep my YZ for longer trips or off weather but I'd love an electric to play on.

  • stenberg77

Posted 09 March 2008 - 11:00 AM

#9

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I have placed an order for this one. It will be shipped by may.
Price was the same as a new Husqvarna TE-450.

  • Joshtee

Posted 09 March 2008 - 10:48 PM

#10

Here's a guy (in Europe) racing one against gas bikes in a supermoto race. Pretty impressive I must say. He is in last place, but does keep up. He even passes a few.

check it out-


  • railer80

Posted 10 March 2008 - 01:39 AM

#11

swingarm is too long, frame is to short from front to back and the forks are too short. too small of wheels also to ever be competitive.

  • Joshtee

Posted 10 March 2008 - 10:34 PM

#12

railer80 said:

swingarm is too long, frame is to short from front to back and the forks are too short. too small of wheels also to ever be competitive.


With all those flaws you claim to know about, I wonder how ths guy competes w/ thumpers.

http://www.youtube.c....eature=related

  • railer80

Posted 10 March 2008 - 11:21 PM

#13

Joshtee said:

With all those flaws you claim to know about, I wonder how ths guy competes w/ thumpers.

http://www.youtube.c....eature=related

is says that it was a malform video ID?

im just saying, to even be considered competitive, they will need to step it up.

  • bailey450

Posted 11 March 2008 - 03:15 AM

#14

Interesting, I was just reading about this company on cnn.com yesterday.

http://zeromotorcycles.com/gallery.php

This bike claims 60mph and 40 mile range. The owner of the company designed mountain bike frames for santa cruz and worked at NASA designing electric powered lunar vehicles...

  • 125shifter

Posted 11 March 2008 - 04:31 AM

#15

kawirider6080 said:

i hate to admit it but that thing looks like it would be a lot of fun to fool around on. 10,000 seems a bit much though.
I agree. Imagine seeing one doing full-on moto. :crazy:

  • xr200rrider

Posted 11 March 2008 - 04:57 AM

#16

bailey450 said:

Interesting, I was just reading about this company on cnn.com yesterday.

http://zeromotorcycles.com/gallery.php

This bike claims 60mph and 40 mile range. The owner of the company designed mountain bike frames for santa cruz and worked at NASA designing electric powered lunar vehicles...



I saw this guy and his bike on the discovery channel...(Mean Green Machines) and it was actually pretty impressive the gas bike out performed it but not by as much as you would think, and the electric bike actually beat it in the tight tech part. I know that the test wern't exactly real world but it did alot better then I would of thought.

  • bailey450

Posted 11 March 2008 - 08:11 AM

#17

xr200rrider said:

I saw this guy and his bike on the discovery channel...(Mean Green Machines) and it was actually pretty impressive the gas bike out performed it but not by as much as you would think, and the electric bike actually beat it in the tight tech part. I know that the test wern't exactly real world but it did alot better then I would of thought.

When I first saw the bike I thought it had a definate Mountain Bike look to it. The forks, disc brakes, sprockets/ chain and handlebars look like something off a downhill bike. I'd like to see him put more batteries in the thing(more power!), beef up the forks, sprockets, chain, brakes etc to motocross standards and see what happens. The bike only weighs 140lbs so there's alot of room to grow into a mx bike and still be lighter than the gas bikes. It would be strange to be racing around a track with no noise! The only thing you'd hear is the drive chain spinning.

  • Joshtee

Posted 11 March 2008 - 01:20 PM

#18

railer80 said:

is says that it was a malform video ID?

im just saying, to even be considered competitive, they will need to step it up.

Opps, not sure why that did not work. Ya, I agree they will need to step it up, but the technology is just still at the beginning of development.

try this link-



It's impressive, but I think a silent electric bike is weird. I like internal combustion engines myself. It will be intresting to see were this goes. I laughed when somebody mentioned in one of the 2t vs 4t debates "Someday, instead of debating 2t vs 4t, we'll be debating Gas vs Electric". I thought it was silly. Now after watching that Euro Supermoto race, I think it's actually possible.

  • kennedy327

Posted 11 March 2008 - 07:36 PM

#19

bailey450 said:

When I first saw the bike I thought it had a definate Mountain Bike look to it. The forks, disc brakes, sprockets/ chain and handlebars look like something off a downhill bike. I'd like to see him put more batteries in the thing(more power!), beef up the forks, sprockets, chain, brakes etc to motocross standards and see what happens. The bike only weighs 140lbs so there's alot of room to grow into a mx bike and still be lighter than the gas bikes. It would be strange to be racing around a track with no noise! The only thing you'd hear is the drive chain spinning.

It would be a moto full of guys wizzing around the track shit talking eachother the whole time.

  • railer80

Posted 11 March 2008 - 10:06 PM

#20

Joshtee said:

Opps, not sure why that did not work. Ya, I agree they will need to step it up, but the technology is just still at the beginning of development.

try this link-



It's impressive, but I think a silent electric bike is weird. I like internal combustion engines myself. It will be intresting to see were this goes. I laughed when somebody mentioned in one of the 2t vs 4t debates "Someday, instead of debating 2t vs 4t, we'll be debating Gas vs Electric". I thought it was silly. Now after watching that Euro Supermoto race, I think it's actually possible.
ya, but imagine that thing doing a 30 min moto at glen helen, theres no0 way it would hang.

kennedy327 said:

It would be a moto full of guys wizzing around the track shit talking eachother the whole time.

Haha, they would know when i almost crash...theyll here a loud SHIIITTTT



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