Electric motorcycle inventor crashes at Wired NextFest

[NiscoRacing]

Los Angeles (CA) – The inventor of the “KillaCycle” electric motorcycle almost killed himself during a demonstration at the Wired NextFest conference. Bill Dube, a government scientist during the day and electric bike builder at night, did a “burn out” in front of the Los Angeles Convention Center, but accidentally accelerated too much and crashed into a Minivan.

The video (http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/33853/113/)

And woow that was fast :eek::shocked::eek:

And luckily he only had some little injuries.

And this year they will do the "KillaCycle in Reykjavik, Iceland Sept 13th to 22nd!" (http://www.killacycle.com)

So i hope there will be less accidents this year ;)

http://www.killacycle.com/photos/pomona-sevens/image/500/7.JPG

[STEvil]

Monday, September 17, 2007 10:49

uh... yeah I thought I saw that a long time ago.

[SoulsCollective]

Ooooooooold.

[Dualist]

Doh.!

But hell it was flipping quick :eek:

[inCore]

Quite impressive speed, the whole video is even more ridiculous when you know he's going to crash.

[p8ntslinger676]

wow...that was so fast it looked almost fake, poor guy, but the bike kicks ass :D

[Stukov]

...this should be interesting...ha ha ha...
What he says during the interview, like he knew he was going to do something horrible.

Looks like they put water down and he went beyond the water spot and it gripped. I was kind loling though.

[Entity_Razer]

holy f* that thing accelerates fast >.>

[RPGWiZaRD]

I haven't seen this before so thanks for posting. That was some insane acceleration and being electric powered makes it even more amazing. KillaCycle clearly is a suitable name for this bike, it's really dangerous if not used carefully. :p:

Altough I'm more interested in the batteries themselves, seems like a very good invention.

[SiGfever]

I guess being a scientist he has never heard about helmets? :shrug:

[GAR]

is he cool now?

[dengyong]

That was pretty funny.

[One_Hertz]

WOW that was way too fast. I have never seen anything accelerate so fast actually...

[WRC]

i think the accelerator wire was got stuck on, at least i think that's what he said towards the end

[eXa]

Wow old... anyways:

"I’m Fine (scapes and cuts) Bike is a little bent….

First off, I’m just a bit scraped up. Embarrassed of course. I had not intended the bike to move in the soapy water, just spin the tire.

Got it slowed down to about 20 mph. Front wheel is bent, as are front forks. Cowling is not nearly as pretty as it was.
Battery box took a hit from the front wheel. Almost certainly, some cells were shorted. No smoke. No fire. Ultra safe cells. Had these been anything but A123 Systems Nano-phosphate cells, shorts would have caused a serious fire.

No major damage. We will have it fixed in short order.

Important to note: Area in front of the bike was CLEARED of ALL PEOPLE. NO ONE was at risk but me. Concrete on both sides of area.

Yes, I am an idiot for not wearing a helmet. :-/"

[GAR]

Wow old... anyways:

"I’m Fine (scapes and cuts) Bike is a little bent….

First off, I’m just a bit scraped up. Embarrassed of course. I had not intended the bike to move in the soapy water, just spin the tire.

Got it slowed down to about 20 mph. Front wheel is bent, as are front forks. Cowling is not nearly as pretty as it was.
Battery box took a hit from the front wheel. Almost certainly, some cells were shorted. No smoke. No fire. Ultra safe cells. Had these been anything but A123 Systems Nano-phosphate cells, shorts would have caused a serious fire.

No major damage. We will have it fixed in short order.

Important to note: Area in front of the bike was CLEARED of ALL PEOPLE. NO ONE was at risk but me. Concrete on both sides of area.

Yes, I am an idiot for not wearing a helmet. :-/"

Good to hear you are ok!! Keep up the good work.

[Cold Fussion]

2.5x faster to 100 km/h then a veyron wow :O

[Kingcarcas]

EPIC!!! It's easy to play monday morning QB, but the guy was trying to look cool and impress the hot chick :rofl: