[drivin98]

Swigz Pro Racing is unveiling their bike at The Battery Show this October. Still blacked-out in the pictures available now is a KERS system set up on the front wheel.

With 194 horsepower and 295 lb ft of torque, other TTXGP teams better get busy or get used to looking at the back of this thing.

Motor and controller are both UQM liquid-cooled units. Battery supplier not named yet but given where the unveiling is happening, I think they have someone in mind.

[major]

Originally Posted by drivin98

other TTXGP teams better get busy or get used to looking at the back of this thing.

Not sure what you mean by "other" TTXGP teams. I don't see any of these bikes on the grid. But by all means, bring it on

Regards,

#80

[drivin98]

By "other" TTXGP teams, I mainly meant those who spent the season running behind you ,if by #80, you are part of the Lightning Motors team. Though, I hope you can buff up the banana (so to speak) a bit in the off-season as well.

[major]

Originally Posted by drivin98

By "other" TTXGP teams, I mainly meant those who spent the season running behind you ,if by #80, you are part of the Lightning Motors team. Though, I hope you can buff up the banana (so to speak) a bit in the off-season as well.

Hey driv,

Yeah, I don't know anything about Swigz. Thanks for the link. I'm not kidding about "bring it on". TTXGP really needs more competitors on the grid. And the faster the better. Wouldn't mind seeing 25 or 30 bikes

And we buffed it up to 176. http://1racingsource.com/racing/ligh...at-bonneville/

Regards,

major

[2cycle]

Originally Posted by drivin98

By "other" TTXGP teams, I mainly meant those who spent the season running behind you ,if by #80, you are part of the Lightning Motors team. Though, I hope you can buff up the banana (so to speak) a bit in the off-season as well.

That's pretty cocky typing about an unproven bike. I really hope it does pan out because that would be a very fast bike that even an ICE head like me can appreciate. But I must admit I am very skeptical about the hp figures your throwing around for the amount of battery volume on board.
What would really impress me is a price tag of less than $50K. Any investor/company with deep pockets can build 1-offs that are unobtainable to the public. In racing that's called an engineering exercise, they are meant to explore the outer edge of current tech without thought about cost and/or reproduction. There is only one form of racing that operates or allows stuff like that and that's F-1. I bet the lightning team would have a different bike of they had a $400K budget. I personally believe these TTXGP bikes should have a spec suspension using only commercially available parts to keep cost down. Make the focus about the motor and drive trains for now and see where it goes. Once you can get about 50 entries per event then make an unlimited class for the rich guys to get puffed up about.

[drivin98]

Perhaps a little cocky, but the team member's experience gives me some amount of confidence. There is also a possibility it's over-complicated , which could lead to unreliability but it all remains to be seen.

As far as I can tell the Swigz team isn't planning on producing a bike for sale, rather, they want to patent and license tech they invent along the way. Their goal is to produce a bike with performance equal to a 600cc race bike which is, of course, prett tough. They say they didn't race this year because the Headway's they were going to put into it couldn't give them the numbers their hardware is supposed to be capable of.

There is supposed to be a spec class in TTXGP but I don't know what the parameters are. You can probably find out more about it here. http://www.egrandprix.com/wiki/index...itle=Main_Page

Not sure how rich any of the current TTXGP teams are. Swigz has been fortunate to get a lot of sponsors and that's helped them a lot. Think the existing teams have done pretty damn good with what they've got. Lightning, of course, but Electra and Electric Race Bikes also.

Motoczysz probably has the best budget in the electric motorcycle space and since their deal with Remy, it's probably only going to get better. Too bad he doesn't compete in the TTXGP.

[major]

Originally Posted by drivin98

There is also a possibility it's over-complicated ,

Looks pretty complex to me