vroom!

[crash]

finally, a bike quieter than a gs500

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050316/sc_nm/environment_britain_bike_dc

[starwalt]

Neat.
An electric, belt driven, spawn-of-a-dirt-bike-that-had-sex-with-a-street-bike, environmentally neutral, hydrogen powered make-me-feel-good-about-the-planet, screw-your-2$-a-gallon-for-gas, machine!

Seriously, I have an E-Zuki bumping around the back of my brain. The GS donor chassis will end up that way. Batteries instead of hydrogen though. Hindenburg disaster and all that...

Notice the article said no gear shifting? Electric motor speed controllers take care of that. All the torque, none of the rpm.

[davipu]

if it whould go faster I'd trade the gs in

[callmelenny]

Powered by a high pressure hydrogen fuel cell, the Emissions Neutral Vehicle (ENV) produces the equivalent noise of a personal computer fan belt.

I didn't know my computer had a fan belt, should I check the valve clearances too? :lol:

[scratch]

And if the belt is too tight, does it make the hamster squeek?

[manofthefield]

And if the belt is too tight, does it make the hamster squeek?

My hampster has been squeeking a lot lately and making a few other odd noises, I guess I should loosen the tension on my fan belt.  Poor little guy :lol:

[Anonymous]

I hate to break the bad news to y'all but hydrogen is not the panacea that it's hyped to be.  It takes MORE energy (costs more, more environmentally unfriendly) to make hydrogen, store it, ship it, compress it, etc. for vehicle use than gasoline will for a long long time.  Sure it burns clean in your car but "breaking water" takes a TON of energy.  Solar is the only feasibly economical way to do it but right now it's SO inefficient that it's not worth it.  You'd have to build a huge solar power plant to get hardly any gas.  Remember your chemistry classes?  Running DC through salt water?  How long it takes to break it into O2 and H2?  It took all class for a test tube worth.  Propane is clean burning but not near the energy output of gasoline.  Hydrogen has probably the least "bang" of all the fuels.  Gasoline is VERY potent as a fuel and in the near future nothing touches its "bang for the buck".

[crash]

someday there'll be an engine that runs on dreams...