Have You Seen the New 120 MPH Electric Motorcycle ‘The Detonator?’
- Posted on November 1, 2011 at 2:31pm by
Liz Klimas
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Electric motorcycle technology, like that of electric cars, is on the rise. But have you ever seen one like this yet?
Detonator was designed by Daniel Simon and created by Parker Brothers Choppers. (Photo: Karen Parker, Parker Brothers Choppers)
The Detonator is an all electric bike based on the design by Daniel Simon, the designer of the Light Cycles for “Tron: Legacy,” and manufactured by Parker Brothers Choppers. Wired has more on the bike’s specs:
It’s got a 30-inch front wheel and dual 96 volt electric motors in the hub of the 27 inch rear wheel. The e-bike is powered by lithium-ion batteries, and charges in an hour when plugged into a 110 volt outlet. Parker Brothers estimates the bike has a 80-100 mile range when fully charged, and it’s been bench tested to a 120 mph top speed.
According to Simon’s website, his original design for the Detonator motorcycle is a “plasma-combustion street cruiser exclusively for non-human droids, able to bend their legs opposite way. The design of the bike was tailored towards their unusual proportions, although occasionally human models were used to pose with stationary bikes.” The Parker Brothers version will cost you $100,000.
Earlier this year, Parker Brothers Choppers also brought Simon’s Tron: Legacy Light Cycles into reality.
Parker Brothers Choppers Light Cycle design. (Image via Evolve Facebook)
If you haven’t seen the Light Cycles in Tron: Legacy, get a load of them in this clip (naturally, the stream of light wouldn’t remain after the bike in reality):
[H/T Gizmodo]
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Comments (59)
possom
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 8:50pmI have a bicycle that will get me a hundred mile’s, and all I need to recharge it is a cheeseburger and frie’s, it’s better looking too.
Report Post »Slowman101
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 9:14pmLOL! A good one.
Report Post »Cynic-clinic
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 11:23pmYeah, so yawn–This is the same kinda bike I drive to work every day. My other one has 7 wheels for driving upside down and runs on lithium hydrogen molecules (when I can find them).
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 11:36pmWhen will this Green-crap end?
Report Post »SomeRandomPerson
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 4:13amI was just thinking that looked like something out of Tron, then they showed the pics from that movie. Lol.
Report Post »Secret Squirrel
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 10:57am.
Report Post »Looks painful to ride.
Jake Dog2
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 8:31pmHe what is the world coming to. A bike without the VAROOOOOOOM. How sad.Only a lib. and tree hugger would ride it. lol
Report Post »Jake Dog2
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 8:36pmSorry that should have been Hey my paws got in the way of my typing. lol
Report Post »Jake Dog2
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 8:23pmWho wants to pay of a motorcycle that can oly go 80-100 miles without a recharg. Then where are you going to plug in and for $100k. Like DUH
Report Post »Ironeagle
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 7:43pmThis is a bullsh+t cartoon.
Report Post »snowdrop
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 7:43pmIsn’t it just wonderful when people piss away time and money to create something completely useless!
Just a minute, that seems to be the goal of much of the new green movement….
I am sure someone in Hollywood will order one!!
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 6:46amDid the Dept of Energy fund this?
OMG
Report Post »Desert Dog
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 7:42pmUgly! I’ll keep my V Twin.
Report Post »leumas
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 7:39pmLooser bike. Slow, expensive, can’t fill her up and dust it….trash…
Report Post »Lateris
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 7:35pmI would love to ride this bike when I can get 500 miles per charge.Tesla was right.
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 1:18amNow THAT would be a great bike! I’m no tree-hugger, but Tron is awesome!
Report Post »Freedom From Religion
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 7:10pmladies and Gentlmen, the Obamacycle… it takes 5 times more to make it than it’s worth, It doesn’t actually work, It’s ugly… just plain ugly…, and will cost twice as much to power it as you pay now, and it produces less carbon… a critical element that is necessary for all life on earth.
Report Post »zippo
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 10:17pmThat’s great!!!!
Report Post »tlchands
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:37amPlease correct me if I’m wrong, but if it uses electricity to charge it , and most electrical power plants run on coal or nuclear energy, doesn’t that make it much worse than the average polluting motorcycle in the whole scheme of things, considering you have to use so much energy from these sources to charge it?
Report Post »Sagus
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 7:04pm“the Detonator motorcycle is a “plasma-combustion street cruiser exclusively for non-human droids, able to bend their legs opposite way. The design of the bike was tailored towards their unusual proportions, although occasionally human models were used to pose with stationary bikes.”
So they are basically saying you can have a non rideable movie prop for a platry $100,00.
Report Post »Common.Cents
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 6:38pmI hate to sound like an ignoramus, but where do you sit?
Report Post »Jake Dog2
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 8:27pmLOL you are right. I did not see that.
Report Post »RetiredChief
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 6:20pmUgly with a capital UGH! Maybe a B2B bike at best! Wouldn’t want to try and spend any real time riding that! That is a poser bike for the guy who just wants to show up the Jones’
Report Post »RoAdFiXeR
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 6:19pmIs this the “after the crash” photo?????
Report Post »tlchands
Posted on November 3, 2011 at 8:44amlmbo!
Report Post »thegodfather
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 5:52pmPersonal injury lawyers can hardly wait for this. A new cottage industry.
Report Post »olddog
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 5:51pmSome people have Way to much Money and Time on their hands…
Report Post »piper60
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 6:00pmYeah, dog. This has the same problem electric cars have with me. A practical one, at that. I live in an apartment complex. I doubt they’d be willing to put the electric terminals in. That, and I’ve never had $100,000 in my hand or my checking account in the entirety of my life.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 5:48pmToo bad the unions will make it unaffordable to actually produce.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 5:55pmBut hey, they can always be bailed out by the people who can’t afford to buy the motorcycles which will make them buy less motorcycles which will require more bailouts which will cause them to buy less motorcycles……..until there is no point in making motorcycles.
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 5:40pmCool as hell, I want one!
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 5:51pmYou won‘t afford it if it’s union made, and if it‘s gets made by slaves it will fall apart while you’re driving down the road just like a the Chinese products are beginning to do.
Report Post »Eliasim
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 5:56pmOf course the company can always execute the slaves for bad craftsmanship like they do in China, but then people will just eventually shutdown or find a way to flee.
Report Post »gldncat
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 7:09pmYou may want one, but where are you going to sit? There is no seat. Are you just going to fire it up and watch it go down the street without you? Plus, not a great buy if you can only go 80-100 miles before you have to recharge your battery. You could walk faster!
Report Post »godhatesacoward
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 5:35pmLooks like it has a muffler!?
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 5:28pmDon’t leave it near Zuccotti Park, They’ll crap on it or steal it.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 5:11pmCool and inventive! Be sure it’s all union work, or Pelosi will shut you down.
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 5:02pmNiice.
Now just implement some levitating capacitors or ionocraft technology and make that baby FLY!
And make it SELF- Recharging with this!! It works, I built one…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5049315417065623724#
Report Post »c0mm0nsense
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 6:08pmPretty Cool video, I think that how the old outboard motors used to charge the battery. Check it out, that would make a good size charger. As in old I mean the 60′s
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 2, 2011 at 12:04pmWhen TSHTF, that’s how we generate energy!
Imagine scaling up this little device to say, a garage full of car batteries or something… with a large DC motor from a fan or something… with some heavy duty bridge rectifiers, you could generate enough power to get off of natural gas, oil, wind, solar, whatever.
This is the perpetual motion machine, it takes a small input energy. It isn’t “free”, but it can run virtually forever…
Just don’t forget the Capacitor between the bridge rectifier and the batteries to smooth out the AC to DC transformation fluctuation…
Report Post »nappy
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 4:47pmMr. Garrison already invented something like this in a South Park Episode. This looks even less comfortable than his was.
Report Post »RetiredChief
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 6:24pmI was thinking the same thing! LOL
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 4:47pmI want one!
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 4:43pmSnazzy. Where does the chic sit?
Report Post »etoddt
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 6:09pmHow does the driver sit on it? :)
Report Post »Busdriver4u
Posted on November 5, 2011 at 3:05pmChic’s sit? It was originally designed as a “plasma-combustion street cruiser exclusively for non-human droids, able to bend their legs opposite way. The design of the bike was tailored towards their unusual proportions, although occasionally human models were used to pose with stationary bikes.” The problem with the bike is your penis shrinks 2″ when you hop on.
Report Post »Indymaverick
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 4:42pmLooks like they stole that concept from the movie tron.
Report Post »patriot308
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 4:51pmYou are master of the obvious!
Report Post »KidCharlemagne
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 4:52pmProbably!:
“The Detonator is an all electric bike based on the design by Daniel Simon, the designer of the Light Cycles for “Tron: Legacy,”
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