The electronics are also tweaked to give you more power as well and a higher top end.
As said earlier, they STILL have to hold back on the overall power distribution because most people don't have a clue how that all works and the DANGERS of hammering a battery too hard etc etc and will just, I WANT and I want NOW, and can potentially lead to a very bad day when a battery cell/pack decides to woof and the rest sympathetically follow behind because the short it created gave them a HUGE current path for them to dump.
The flames you see are the Hydrogen burning off from the runaway reaction in the battery and the flame spewing out is about 1800 degrees F or so. The nice color you see is a combo of the Cobalt and Lithium in the fire. Of course Nickel and Copper are playing as well but anyways..
You can buy a 'track bike' from them. You'll need to inquire with them separately on that and they will build it for you i believe. The thing is, this bike is for the TRACK, NOT street legal. No lights, No Mirrors, No Turn Signals, and im pretty sure the foot pegs are missing or tied back as well on it. It is opened up and will go pretty damned fast.
ALSO, a bike that can do 125 is one thing, a bike that can do 165 + is another world at that point, you need MUCH better braking, a ton more energy going into it, when you get to those speeds, it's almost exponential, the energy / inertia you need to put in, and hence take away to brake.
You also need better tires that are rated to handle that speed, many of the 'standard' tires would fly apart from centrifugal forces.
Finally shocks, at those speeds, things can happen VERY fast, including a harmonic resonance, ie the aka death wobble / tank slapper if you had one, if you bang a hard bump or decide to do a wheelie or something. You need shocks with superb dampening that can take that in and take that OUT very fast within a few oscillations ideally.
The fairings are to help port the wind around the bike to cut drag, which is HUGE at those speeds. I'll give you an example. In the navy i was on a frigate, we had 2 - 25 000 HP jet engines for our propulsion. One engine could push us to 25 knots, to go from 25 to 30 we needed the entire second 25 000 Hp engine just for those extra 5 kph, because of the water drag, (which would be wind drag on a bike as an example) there's sail area, and wind WILL be an issue, the fairings help tame that a bit.
It's a sweet ass bike though !!
Aaron
