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EBR 1190RS Teaser (Part I)

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Forza: Kinect Trailer

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Inaugural US Rallycross Event

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NFS World – Review

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How To Fix YZ250F Choke | Trail Tech Vapor

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Trail Tech Vapor

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Trail Tech Vapor

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Formula Future comes to the UK

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Champagne porn at the German Grand Prix

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Electric Motorcycle: 2010 MotoCzysz E1pc

This is the 2010 MotoCzysz E1pc, a race bike built by a tiny Oregonian company focused on pushing the limits of electric performance to the absolute max. It packs 10 times the battery capacity of a Toyota Prius and 2.5 times the torque of a Ducati 1198 into a package that looks like something out of a 24th-century Thunderdome.

Tomorrow it will race in the Isle of Man TT, the toughest motorcycle race in the world. The technology at work is so advanced, so unprecedented, that we may be looking not just at the future of motorcycles, but of all electric vehicles.

The reason the all-electric race bike is here, 4,600 miles from its home in Portland, Oregon, is to prove itself. Ever since 1907, the Isle of Man TT has been the race for bike manufacturers and riders to show their mettle to the public. The thinking goes that if you can lap its 37.7 miles of tiny, twisty back roads with an average speed in excess of 100 MPH, you or your bike become indisputably proven. Well over 200 riders and a handful of spectator’s have been killed trying to do just that.

But as recently as two days ago, the future of motorcycles was missing its body panels (stuck in customs). Before this week, the finished bike has never even seen the light of day. But even in its unproven, incomplete state, it's been putting in laps that have the competition quaking in their leather.

The customs snafu (and the mad dash to even finish the bike in time for the race) is not the first time Michael Czysz, MotoCzysz’s founder, CEO and the driving force behind the E1pc, had suffered a set back on this tiny rock in the middle of the Irish Sea. Last year, the Isle of Man TT hosted the first ever all-electric motorcycle road race, and MotoCzysz was there with the E1pc's predecessor. But while the machines that entered were technically impressive, their performance wasn’t. The race-winning team only averaged 87 MPH, well short of the 100 MPH watershed that defines a serious lap and way behind the 131.5 MPH lap record set by the fastest gas-powered superbikes. MotoCzysz didn’t even complete a full lap, suffering an electric spike from their experimental kinetic energy recovery system that fried the bike’s electronic control unit (ECU).

That was a major blow for Czysz (pronounced "sizz"). Five months of whirlwind effort from the former motorcycle racer and architect and his small team in Portland saw them abruptly transition away from developing a 200 HP, gasoline-powered MotoGP bike to produce an electric bike that blew the zero emissions competition away standing still. The E1pc looks like an X-Wing crossed with an iPod to the other electric racer’s cobbled-together adaptations of existing internal combustion engine bikes.

We overreached and it bit us in the ass,” says Czysz of last year’s race. “We’re trying to do too much with too little, we’re effectively building a Formula One level machine with one engineer, two machinists, one CAD guy, me and a body dude.”

But the E1pc was out in front when it broke down. Way out front.This is the 2010 MotoCzysz E1pc, a race bike built by a tiny Oregonian company focused... more

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Professional Drifting: Loud, Smokey & Fuel-Efficient

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City Trader by day, powerboat racer by weekend

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HOW THE FUEL GIRLS AIM TO REWRITE THE POWERBOAT RACING RECORD BOOKS?

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Why Texas Makes Perfect Sense for F1

Autopia | Wired.com
Formula 1 is returning to the United States — and let us pause here to say woo-hoo! — and a lot of people wonder why Formula One Management chose Austin, Texas.

Actually, Austin makes perfect sense.

The United States Grand Prix has been hosted by everyone from Long Beach to Indianapolis, but New York is its historical home. The Empire State hosted the race from 1961 until 1980. New York put together a solid bid to host the race when it returns to the U.S. in 2012, but in the end F1M, which manages and licenses the sport, chose Texas. Austin, its capital, will host the United States Grand Prix from 2012 through 2020.

Matt Hardigee of Jalopnik has written a detailed account of how and why New York “got screwed,” as he put it. In a nutshell, Hardigee argues that as recently as May 5 it appeared F1 was returning to New York. He also notes that Bernie Eccelstone — the capo di tutti capi of F1 — and famed track designer Herman Tilke had visited Monticello Motor Club and hoped to stage a race there.

We’d argue that New York wasn’t screwed and it’s clear why F1 would choose Austin.

First and foremost, Eccelstone’s first, second and third considerations are the best interests — read, money — of Formula One Management, which is the company that manages and licenses F1. By Hardigee’s own (excellent) reporting, Texas was a bigger payday. What’s more, everyone from the governor and state comptroller on down is behind the project. That will help grease the skids as Texas scrambles to build a track.

Speaking of the track, Eccelstone gets a facility designed and built specifically for F1, one some experts tell the Austin American-Statesman could cost as much as $250 million. Had F1 returned to New York, it probably would have run at Watkins Glen or Monticello — two excellent tracks, to be sure, but not the modern operations Eccelstone has come to expect (and receive) from new grands prix hosts.

“For the first time in the history of Formula One in the United States, a world-class facility will be purpose-built to host the event,”

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Stunts and Chaos: Episode 6, Part 4

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OLYMPIAN SWAPS SKIS FOR SUPERSTOCK

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