Will the SineCycle Convince You to Become an Environmentalist?
It seems that even though the automotive world has figured out it is the 21st century, the motorcycle world hasn’t. People and manufacturers are still using the same type of parts, and the same engineering they were over 100 years ago. Nothing has really changed. That is until electric motorcycles began to become popular.
With companies like Zero Motorcycles, and Brammo, the public has been introduced to the idea of having an electric bike. However, most of these motorcycles don’t exactly look all that tough. And additionally, most, if not all of them are styled to resemble sport bikes. This leaves the average motorcycle rider, the one that rides a more cruiser style bike out in the cold. Until now.
Called the SineCycle, the bike was built as a custom one off by Bruno Forcella, a former electrical engineer from Switzerland. The motorcycle was created because Forcella wanted something that was easy to ride, cool to look at, and chief among them, cheap to build. Using only off the shelf parts, the SineCycle was according to Forcella, preposterously cheap to build and required little to no modification of the Cleveland Cyclwerks hardtail frame.
The motorcycle uses a 2.8kWh motor lifted out of a Zero Motorcycle and can hit 75 miles per hour and go for about 35 miles before needing a charge up. Not a bike you want to take to Sturgis, but something that would definitely be cool for a city dweller looking for that rocker look. So what do you all think? Is this electric chopper cool, or too hippie?
Photo Credit: Da Guru Photography
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