daydreaming and an barely OT video

Posted by Rand McNally on October 26, 2008, 1:29 am

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Drinks all around.

I'm still employed, and don't have much exposure to "the markets" so I'm not
feeling that
pain much, yet, and the card is on the bar.

Was scheming up an electric motorcycle and a leetle windmill out back resulting
in totally
free transportation. A greener slug bike contraption kinda concept. Probably
don't have
the skills, tools, motivation, time or capital for that either, but in digging
around for
ideas I came across this video of what they claim is the quickest electric
vehicle in the
quarter mile:

Their site:

http://www.killacycle.com/

Looks like fun.

I'm gonna need a bigger windmill.

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Posted by Harold Gailey on October 26, 2008, 2:14 am

Just don't do like the killacycle's inventor did...

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Posted by Rand McNally on October 26, 2008, 3:22 am

Harold Gailey wrote:

Let's see... "400 hp"... "I'm not the driver"... "Most dangerous motorsport"...
no helmet,
burnout in front of a camera...

Sage advice indeed.

Still looks like fun though.

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Posted by Bob Mann on October 26, 2008, 10:59 am

The bike is seriously cool.
The stunt was pretty foolish for a supposedly smart guy.

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Posted by Rand McNally on October 26, 2008, 11:51 am

Bob Mann wrote:

In the initial vid he credits the tire's ability to hook-up for the new record
time.

It hooked up real good in the crash vid. He was screwed right then and there,
imho.

fwiw, the electric contraption I'm daydreaming on is in the 4 to 15 hp range,
maybe an old
golfcart motor, or such.

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