Electric Flat Track at The One Moto Show in Portland - Feb 8

[leeo45]

There will be an electric motorcycle flat track race at the One Moto Show 2020 at the Portland Memorial Coliseum this coming weekend. The event schedule has it is listed as an Expert class for “all electric bikes”.

Zero Motorcycles is the presenting sponsor for this race. Here is their brief announcement:

The first ever Electric National, presented by Zero Motorcycles, is happening at this year’s The One Motorcycle Show races. National level riders on all electric motorcycles and a stacked gate of top level racers. Cash money for a prize and the glory of being the 1st ever Electric National! See you there on February 8th.⁠

I know Jeff Carver (AFT National #23) was out in California testing an electric bike a couple of weeks ago so there may be some top riders in the race. The One Moto flat track event has been video streamed in prior years so hopefully it will be up again for 2020. The schedule puts the electric race around 8:45PM PT.

 

[F451]

Oh man, this is tempting to run down to see. Thanks for posting, I hadn't heard about the lecky bikes racing there.

 

[Blatant Moto]

We gave it our best shot! Andy DiBrino got us a heat win and the hole shot in the main event, but some dude on a Zero punted him out of the groove on lap two and Sammy Halbert snuck out into the lead. We learned a lot though and will get back out there.

 

[leeo45]

Wow! Racing the museum bike. Nice.

That surface looks more like a MX course than a flat track oval.

 

[Blatant Moto]

yeah it was pretty gnarly. The zeros had cushier suspension and front brakes which definitely didn’t hurt their chances. Also they had 5 bikes to our 1. Still, it was fun. Andy totally killed it.

 

[Philip]

Congrats! This is a great showing!

What is the weight of this tubeframe Alta flat tracker? I am curious whether it is significantly lighter.

 

[Blatant Moto]

We weighed it for the first time last night. It’s 250lbs. Vinnie is confident we could cut 10 lbs out of it if we used a thinner wall tube for the main frame and swingarm. We went with .120 wall for a decent safety factor and will go thinner for any future iterations. In the race last night though, weight was not our enemy..

 

[leeo45]

Front brakes ?!?! That wasn't a TT. They should have made them pull the calipers off the bikes.

 

[Rashid510]

"A Zero only just punted the Alta to get ahead..."

 

[Blatant Moto]

"A Zero punted the Alta"....my two cents:

I’ll send you the video

 

[Blatant Moto]

Front brakes ?!?! That wasn't a TT. They should have made them pull the calipers off the bikes.

Agreed

 

[Rashid510]

much better video online.

 

[Matt]

much better video online.

It looks like it was an intentional ram lol

 

[Blatant Moto]

It looks like it was an intentional ram lol

They admitted it was.

 

[F451]

They admitted it was.

Wow, I was wondering about that. My first reaction when viewing it for the first time was "I'd be looking for payback" big time, you punt me, I'm punting you as hard as I can, as quickly as I can.

Taking someone out with a poorly executed block pass at an event like this seems pretty lame.

 

[Matt]

They admitted it was.

I presume having an out of business branded bike beating them would make them look bad. Lame for sure.

 

[Judaslefourbe]

That's racing...

 

[F451]

That's racing...

To some.

If you can’t beat them, crash them.

Lame.

 

[Blatant Moto]

That's racing...

Gotta cheat to win I guess.

 

[Redwolf]

Sounds like schoolyard sports from my youth, "if at first you don't succeed, cheat!"