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[IRideElectric]

https://www.lightfighter-racing.com/post/racing-with-cra-at-buttonwillow

Posting for Brian, as I think he's pretty busy (hope he doesn't mind)

[ZeroBrian]

Posting for Brian, as I think he's pretty busy (hope he doesn't mind)

Definitely don't mind.  Unfortunately, Lightfighter will be a miss for the Laguna AHRMA round (see the end of the blog post for the explanation).  However, we did do a couple of race simulations on our last trackday there last month with V2 that indicates it would've been a fun one...

https://www.lightfighter-racing.com/post/down-the-corkscrew-testing-at-laguna-seca

[NEW2elec]

Like a little Christmas present in July, here's the Motorcycle.com YT video of the Lightfighter in action. 
Bobby Loo the suspension man making adjustments on the fly is like having a good cut man in your corner in boxing.
Troy racing in 108F temps shows how much he believes in this project and where it's headed.  Continued success guys, great job.

[ZeroBrian]

Like a little Christmas present in July, here's the Motorcycle.com YT video of the Lightfighter in action. 
Bobby Loo the suspension man making adjustments on the fly is like having a good cut man in your corner in boxing.
Troy racing in 108F temps shows how much he believes in this project and where it's headed.  Continued success guys, great job.

Thanks!  It's definitely a passion project for all involved.  I know my delivery is a bit dry, but I went through the bike front to back in that video... hope some of you find it interesting!

[Frank]

Good job Brian - personally I would love to learn more about your pack design and any construction tips you might have.  Getting anything to survive and work well at those temps is an outstanding achievement.

[ZeroBrian]

New blog post up! 

https://www.lightfighter-racing.com/post/back-at-it-cra-round-2

[MVetter]

Great update! Probably a wise call with the cells considering that's basically your budget if they get damaged.

[Crissa]

Nice!  Fourth, huh?  Wow, that's really good.

-Crissa

[ZeroBrian]

Great update! Probably a wise call with the cells considering that's basically your budget if they get damaged.

Heh.  Agreed.  They're along for the ride as a sponsor, so ok to be feeding them data, not so good to abuse their product.  It's all good now.  Just a reminder that we're pushing limits.   

[NEW2elec]

I know racing is all about pushing the limits as it should be.
I was wondering if you had an idea what caused the cell issue.
Was it the heavy discharge of the race, pushing the charging limits, or the stress of both race and quick turn recharge that pushed it too far?

Nice showing by the way.  If they left in that one little side curve in I think Troy would have placed even higher.  But a 150MPH straight  shot has it's own rewards.

[ZeroBrian]

I know racing is all about pushing the limits as it should be.
I was wondering if you had an idea what caused the cell issue.
Was it the heavy discharge of the race, pushing the charging limits, or the stress of both race and quick turn recharge that pushed it too far?

Nice showing by the way.  If they left in that one little side curve in I think Troy would have placed even higher.  But a 150MPH straight  shot has it's own rewards.

The cell issue was caused by the longer race at elevated temperatures.  The bottom cells got hotter than the upper cells (i.e. temperature gradient) which may have been compounded by the fact that the motor itself was running hotter during this race with that long straight.  Nothing too challenging to solve for and I'm glad we made it out to this event and exposed a weakness we hadn't seen before. 

Thanks for the kind words.  We plan to be back at Buttonwillow in October with AFM to run the normal layout and the shorter 6 lap races.  Should provide a good point of comparison to the start of the season.  Hopefully we've made some progress...   

[ZeroBrian]

Here's my race report from our last race of the season.  Looking forward to a little time off over the holidays and some upgrades over the off-season before we get back to it.  Thanks for reading!

https://www.lightfighter-racing.com/post/starting-to-click-last-race-of-the-season-with-afm

[NEW2elec]

Great showing Brian.  Be sure and give Troy an "At A Boy" too.  Troy is one of the few major motorcycle reviewers to give solid honest reviews on electric motorcycles and he seems to have the vision to know these bikes are the future.  And the future will be awesome.

[Fred]

Have you crashed it yet? How well protected were the cells? You know what they say - "If you don't crash sometimes then you're not trying hard enough." 

[ZeroBrian]

Have you crashed it yet? How well protected were the cells? You know what they say - "If you don't crash sometimes then you're not trying hard enough." 

No yard sales yet, knock on wood.  Just a couple of tip overs.  You know what else they say... "Keep the rubber side down... crashing is expensive!"