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« on: July 24, 2013, 07:50:00 PM »
I'm not speaking for vintage at all, But I've did the r/c RC stuff in almost all facets. If he was talking about brushed motors that was a while ago but that would apply. But the folks in the R/C world that are pushing the envelope in electric are the airplane folks who are flying R/C jets and are knocking on the door of repl
acing turbines not on the small scale which has done. But on the the large scale. Big and heavy jets.
There issue is not the motors at all now, It's the ESC's that do the switching of the current from the battery to the motor giving it a smooth spool up. And they have a lot of issues with the high end units which would translate to the motorcycle and if there is jamming or to much bogging those current spikes big time and fries the controller. Those babies cost and I would be interested in knowing how much the controller on that Bike costs to replace besides the battery which has it's limiting virtues and there is not much on the horizon for replacing the lipo batterys and making the next big jump.