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| Post #1 Thursday, 19. February 2009, 16:48 |
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| Post #2 Thursday, 19. February 2009, 18:20 |
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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…. Posted Image WORDS: Campbell Rousselle PIC: Andrew Bright-Ultrapix 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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