I’ve already discussed the KillaCycle once before — when the owner, who is not the usual rider, launched it into a mini-van — but now the Today show has aired a segment on the two-wheeled dragster, which goes from zero to 60 in one second and hits 150 miles per hour in the quarter-mile:
Electric vehicles make exceptional dragsters, because they have tremendous torque — and thus acceleration — off the line, and because their great weakness — an inability to store much energy without lots of heavy batteries — doesn’t come into play.
Bill Dube, the bike’s owner, calls it “a giant cordless drill with wheels” and a mix of “a stone-age motor and space-age batteries” — and the guys from the Speed Channel’s Speed Records show were “shocked” by its performance;