It took all those manufactures decades to fine tune the steel and alum frames so that they're lightweight, don't break and work for 90% of the riders and tracks of today. You think they want to start all over again? For what, a few pounds? Stark (and their paid test riders) wants everyone to...
As there would be for an auto mfg claiming their new electric car (not yet in production) has the range equivalent of 30 gallons of gas, 1500 HP, laps Nurburgring at a record pace, seats 6, and only costs $50k. Like they say, sell the hype . . . . .
You are correct. The carbon wrap is to prevent the rotor magnets from flying off at high rpm. However, the Alta uses a carbon wrapped rotor too. The wrap implies that the rotor is a surface mount design which has certain advantage and disadvantages over imbedded designs.
A. Better heat conduction out of the cells.
B. Essentially zero length path to the air stream.
C. More surface area in the air stream.
It doesn't matter how well you conduct the heat to the case if you can't transfer that heat to the outside air. How do you transfer heat from the case to the...
Wass: The battery will last as long as a full tank on a 450, so if you arrive at the track with a fully charged bike, which should get you through the whole day. If you are an MXGP rider you would need to charge it between motos.
There's simply no way, not with current Li-Ion technology and a...
I too believe it will be an improvement and stated so in my first post. A natural incremental evolutionary improvement. It just won't be what they're advertising it to be.