ALTA's new charging system enables you to fully recharge your battery with in 90 minutes. The Supermoto and Dual Sport version of the bike comes with different mappings which give the bike around 4 hours of battery life. With Indian tracks being hard pack for the most part you can expect to get around 90 minutes or more of riding time out of your bike. Your average rider gets 90 minutes or more of riding time.
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A professional racer gets somewhere around 40 minutes out of the battery on a hard pack track in map 4. With the ALTA that really depends on the surface you ride on and how hard you ride. How long can I ride until I'm out of juice. The big question when it comes to electric bikes is the battery life. With out the rotating mass of a normal combustion engine the bike feels light and nimble and really easy to handle. With 259 lbs it comes in on the heavy side but and this is a big BUT out on the track you don't feel the weight. Instead of focusing on my shifting points and controlling the bike with the clutch I could just focus on my riding technique and my line choices which made for a very enjoyable riding experience.Ī big point of discussion is the weight of the bike. Not having a a clutch or a shift lever was suprisingly easy to get used to. Thermal limiting will protect the machine if you push too hard. Map 4 OVERCLOCKED: Maximum torque and power are available without restriction – if you have the skill to control it.
Map 3 PERFORMANCE: Similar traits as the sport map but with more bottom end and traction. Map 2 SPORT: Performance profile engineered to line up with 250f race machinery Map 1 ECO: A traction map that offers the best range profile. The MXR comes with four different mappings that make it change the power delivery signifantly. I was suprised with how easy it was to adopt to the bike. The WP AER forks and WP shock come with a setting developed for the bike and give you a lot of options to fine tune the bike to your liking. As racers we spend a lot of time and money to set our bikes up lower in the rear to achieve better handling so it was nice to see a manufacture adopt that from the get go. The MXR feels like a race bike with a agressive set up that sits a little lower in the rear than your ordinary OEM dirt bike. The chassis feels really balanced and handles really well.
The electric engine is really responsive and ALTA spend a long time developing a power delivery that would make it feel like your normal gas bike. It took me only a couple of laps and I felt right at home on the bike. I didn't know what to expect and was eager to get out on the track. The design is nothing that is currently on the market. Looking at the new ALTA MXR you fell like you made a trip into the future. I travelled to Perris Raceway in California USA to find out what the ALTA is all about and if this is really the bike of the future. How fast does it go and would the chassis be up to par with what we are used to? Not only did ALTA decide to push the electric engine they also build their own chassis from the ground up which is a big challenge in it self.
How would a production electric bike fair out on the track. Hill beat factory Suzuki rider Kyle Cunningham over the course of three heats and advanced to the next round showing the world that an electric motorcycle is more than capable of competing with the gas powered competition. Last year ALTA hired former professional Supercross racer Josh Hill to race the bike at the Red Bull Straight Rythm event. After many years of development they started testing in public with the help of different professional riders about two years ago. Since 2009 the crew at ALTA has worked on prototypes of a electric Motocross bike. In the american technology capital San Francisco in the neighborhood of Apple, Google and Tesla the electric motorcycle manufacture ALTA is working on the future of motorcycling. A competitive electric motorcycle? Tesla has done it on the road and now ALTA is doing it in the off road motorcycle world.
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