Monday, August 19, 2013




The electric motorcycle seems to have been around a lot longer than I thought. This Harley Davidson electric seems to be from the early 1970's as evidenced by the ill-fated boat tail rear fender and drum front brakes. What I find interesting is the chain sprocket is underneath the motor hinting at a transmission which is just now being implemented on electric bikes by Brammo. The cafe styling is a nice touch, but makes me wonder how fast this thing was expected to go and what kind of electronics were hidden underneath the faux gas tank. I can't imagine it would be very fast with those heavy lead-acid batteries. This is the only one I have ever seen, so I believe it is just a prototype. That is assuming it was actually built by Harley and not some home built special with Harley logos on the tank.

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