Another take on Fast Electric

[RiverRunner]

This looks like fun!

http://www.cloudelectric.com/generic.html?pid=39
http://www.cloudelectric.com/generic.html?pid=40

BTW, Cloud Electric Vehicles is looking for a new sponsor...

[AndyKunz]

I've posted Dave Cloud's links a couple times on the old sites. He's something else.

Do a search for John Paramore as well. His name should turn up a few more links for you.

Andrew Gilchrist has a video I sent him from a TLC or History or oen of those channels. It had a really good electric hydro segment on it. John Paramore had sent it to me a couple years ago, I just passed it along. Andrew may have done the same by now too.

Andrew - did you ever watch the story about the runner on that tape?

Andy

[Sheltered]

About 4 years ago Cloud sponsored a high school electrathon championship. Electrathon is a electric car competition. Most cars are bicycle based technology. It was a 4 race series, and the idea was to see how far you could cover for an hours duration. I think electrathon competitions are held throughout the country, and there are high school and open classes. Cloud sold a line of composite cars, motors, etc..

I was teaching at Interlake High School in Bellevue, Washington and we constructed and raced a school car. I think we covered better than 35 or 36 miles in an hour which was pretty good for a rookie team. There were a couple of teams in the 38-39 MPH range. The races were held at the velodrome in Redmond. Kind of like the Daytona 500. It was a blast until a car from another school t-boned a steel pole at about 40 mph.

I've been trying to catch him with his boat out on the water but always seem to miss him. Judging from the website, the outboard technology seems to have come a long way over the last few years.

[AndyKunz]

It was a blast until a car from another school t-boned a steel pole at about 40 mph.

Did that TWICE. The second time was the first time I had been on a bike in nearly a year. I had finished rebuilding and repainting the one I bent the year before and was taking it out for a "test ride."

First time I knocked out my two front teeth but they were re-installed and root canaled and all that. Spent the next 24 hours zonked out, when I awoke I was literally sore over my entire body.

Second time I knocked the same teeth loose. It wasn't fun either time.

Wear a helmet - it would have saved me a lot of anguish even though not protecting my teeth.

Andy

[RiverRunner]

Andy,

Maybe you should have run with sponsons on the aft end of the bike?

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

[AndyKunz]

Training wheels would have made it easier for the car to run me off the road the first time. They had just paved the road and I was suddenly forced to run in the 6" deep 1/4" unpacked gravel.

Second time a truck pulled out in front of me. Don' t think they would have worked then either.

Both times I was riding down hill (we lived on top of a mountain) and was cruising between 35 and 40.

Andy