Lightfighter Electric Race Bike

[Rashid510]

I want this.

 

[snydes]

Holy torque Batman! Very cool.

 

[Butch]

Dude was at the Refuel event at Laguna. Any of you guys meet him?

 

[leeo45]

Cool bike. Sure wish I had known this was at the Barber Vintage Festival. I watched most of the racing, yet didn't see (or at least notice) an electric bike. Admittedly it is very difficult to figure out the classes and bikes at the big AHRMA races because they can have up to five classes of all sorts of bikes on the track at the same time and limited info over the PA. Look forward to seeing the next installment with the racing footage.

 

[Wisdesign]

Hey, there! New to the forum. Love to read about Alta owners racing their bikes. Thanks for checking out my Lightfighter build!

If you'd like to follow our continued progress, check out my blog site here: https://lightfighter-racing.com

 

[Rashid510]

Hey, there! New to the forum. Love to read about Alta owners racing their bikes. Thanks for checking out my Lightfighter build!

If you'd like to follow our continued progress, check out my blog site here: https://lightfighter-racing.com

Hi Brian! Stoked you joined the forum...was a pleasure to work for the MFG team at Zero before going to Alta

 

[ElectricMoto]

Love to see Brian and my former Partner Ely Schless @ ElectricMoto get some recognition. Ely is the true EV Dirt Bike Pioneer work we did starting 20 years ago. Will post some photos of the BLADE 2000-2006 next wk

 

[Wisdesign]

Love to see Brian and my former Partner Ely Schless @ ElectricMoto get some recognition. Ely is the true EV Dirt Bike Pioneer work we did starting 20 years ago. Will post some photos of the BLADE 2000-2006 next wk

Ely is the man! I hope to cover more of his decades long list of contributions to the EV world in a future blog post. For anyone interested, here's a random interview that took place with him last year at Barber Motorsports Park. Long before Alta, Zero, Quantya, Brammo, and so many others... there was ElectricMoto. Brammo's electric bikes were inspired by a welder that worked for us commuting to work everyday on his Blade.

 

[Wisdesign]

Here's a quick video recap of our first race with WERA this season...

 

[Wisdesign]

We'll be back on track at Buttonwillow on Nov.29th with TrackDaz if anyone would like to stop by and say "hi". We'll be testing the bike with Rennie Scaysbrook, current motorcycle record holder at Pikes Peak and editor at CycleNews. Should be fun!

 

[Wisdesign]

Blog post from the test with Rennie: Testing with Rennie Scaysbrook. (lightfighter-racing.com)

 

[Wisdesign]

Now with video!

 

[Wisdesign]

Just catching up anyone interested here in our progress so far this year trying to make the next step in our performance to take the fight to the dead dinosaur burners...

New Year + New Tires

First of all, let me apologize for this blog going silent over the winter. I have a few draft posts that never made it to "publish" due mostly to my fatigue from a hectic 2020. I won't waste time complaining further than that as I know everyone had a tough year. I do have a post on trackside...

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First Race of 2021 - AFM at Buttonwillow

From the start of the Lightfighter project, running with the fastest, race-prepped Supersport class bikes in club racing has been the goal and this is the year we finally made it happen. I started attending AFM race events with the Brammo race team back in 2013 as some of the "international"...

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Down the Corkscrew - Testing at Laguna Seca

First things first, before our second race of the season with CRA, we attended a trackday at Laguna Seca at the end of last month, hoping to get some time at the iconic track ahead of the AHRMA race round in July. We made some setting changes, raising the forks in the triples, following the...

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Racing with CRA at Buttonwillow

There's a new race series in town called California Roadrace Association, operated by Dustin Coyner and the crew that puts on the TrackDaz events in California. When we heard about this new series, I naturally inquired about their willingness to allow electric motorcycles. Not only were they...

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[Wisdesign]

And our last race of the year...

Starting to click! - Last Race of the Season with AFM.

What a difference half a year can make! On October 23rd and 24th, we were back at Buttonwillow Raceway to compete in the final round of the AFM race season. This provided the ideal opportunity to bookend our performance at the same track, with the same series, and in the same race classes as...

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[Butch]

Cool stuff.