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[img]http://tinyurl.com/nn3urk[/img]Article in Kiwirider on Vectrix scoots
Topic Started: Thursday, 19. February 2009, 16:48 (223 Views)
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Sure, most scooters are quiet. But there’s something almost eerie about American company Vectrix’s new all electric model.

Something X-Files fan Campbell ‘Mulder’ Rousselle found strangely appealing….


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In a world where the easily
accessible oil is growing scarcer
by the day and the price at our
pumps is only going to go up (despite
our recent respite) technology which
utilises renewable energies is becoming
increasingly attractive.

However I’m probably like most of
you in that whilst I like to kid myself I’m
green by waving my ‘I ride a motorbike’
fl ag whenever I get the chance, I am in
reality a dyed-in-the-wool petrol head
and therefore still firmly addicted to the
black stuff.

So when long-time mate and total
scooter-head Goetz of dedicated
Auckland scooter shop Scooter e
Motion (and now E-Motion too)
suggested he might have an electric
scooter for me to test, I was not as
excited, as I would have been had
he offered me the keys to the latest
XYZ1200R. However my expectations
were about to be transformed. Enter
the Vectrix!

INSTANTLY WOWED
The moment I laid eyes on the Vectrix
with its cool angular styling, I was
practically a convert. Whilst other
electric scooters are built to a price,
the Vectrix is obviously built to a
standard and a very high standard it
is. Fit and finish are up there with the
best Japanese manufacturers and
components are a who’s who of go
fast goodies. Marzocchi forks up front,
Sachs rear shocks and Brembo calipers
both ends show that Vectrix means
business.

Goetz gave me the run down on
the starting procedure (switch on,
pull on the rear brake and the front,
the dashboard then giving you the
go signal) and tried hard to explain to
me that I was about to enjoy a new
paradigm in transport and that it wasn’t
a sportsbike, but it was hard for me to
concentrate as I jumped excitedly up
and down on the spot.

The first innovation I got to
experience was reverse. Just by
twisting the throttle in the opposite
direction (eh? Ed) you get a reverse
gear, which is obviously fantastically
useful for manoeuvring this 210kg
Vectrix around.

Then there’s the trick regenerative
braking system which reverses the
polarity of the engine thus turning it into
a kind of generator that feeds power
back to the batteries simultaneously
creating braking force…..but Goetz had
only just got into the ins and outs of the
system when I managed to break free
and head off down the street.
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