All-electric KillaCycle tries to kill its maker

[johnnymk]

http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/13/a...ill-its-maker/

You may have heard about the all-electric "KillaCycle" -- a 158MPH drag racing bike powered by a bank of 990 lithium-ion batteries that does 0-60 in .97 seconds. Well, the bike isn't shy about living up to its name -- in a demo for reporters at Wired's NextFest, creator Bill Dube was doing some innocent burnouts when the rear tire hooked and fired him off like a shot...into a parked minivan.

Dube appears to be okay -- he was conscious and had feeling in all his fingers and toes -- but paramedics took him in for X-rays just to be sure. Here's hoping he recovers quickly -- and lets us take that thing for a spin. Hit the read link to see it all go down on video.

[uncledaddy]

OMG! That guy was nuts. He did that without a helmet.

Oh well, I guess with that bike, (or any other for that matter), a helmet is just a bucket to hold your head when it separates from your body.

[Airencracken]

0-60 in .97 seconds?

[bachviet]

0-60 in .97 seconds?

Make it a very fast bike since torque is instantaneous with electric motors.

[Jeffbx]

I'm surprised he could hang on long enough to time that...

[Napoleon54]

<1 second?? I didn't know that was possible. Wow.

[Daedalus]

It's on par with top-fuel dragsters--acceleratig nearly 3x as quick as jumping off a building under the force of gravity.

[thresher]

UH. Holy (insert expletive). Instant torque is right. wow, just wow.