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Old Sep 13, 2007 | 08:26 PM
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Talking All-electric "KillaCycle" tries to kill its maker...

I'm sorry... but I can't stop laughing...

This is probably the funniest thing I've ever seen or read on the internet... EVER.

You may have heard about the all-electric "KillaCycle" -- a 158MPH drag racing bike powered by a bank of 990 lithium-ion batteries that does 0-60 in .97 seconds. Well, the bike isn't shy about living up to its name -- in a demo for reporters at Wired's NextFest, creator Bill Dube was doing some innocent burnouts when the rear tire hooked and fired him off like a shot...into a parked minivan. Dube appears to be okay -- he was conscious and had feeling in all his fingers and toes -- but paramedics took him in for X-rays just to be sure. Here's hoping he recovers quickly -- and lets us take that thing for a spin.
Source: Engadget

Click to see the video of the crash... and make sure you have peed, or else you will ruin your pants...
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Old Sep 13, 2007 | 08:59 PM
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I've seen this motorcycle in other videos. It's crazy fast and quiet at the same time.

Too bad that had to happen...
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Old Sep 13, 2007 | 10:49 PM
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No brain bucket = no brain. An object lesson for the advocates of no helmet laws.
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Old Sep 13, 2007 | 11:15 PM
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Um.... at the point I was even HALFway from where I started I'd have braked!
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Old Sep 14, 2007 | 12:08 AM
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i didn't wanna laugh.. reading this i said to myself this sounds serious it can't possibly be so funny.. i was wrong.. lol poor dude almost died but puhahaha!!!
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Old Sep 14, 2007 | 06:22 AM
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"I'm the owner not the drive so this should be interesting."
Idiot.
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Old Sep 14, 2007 | 08:51 PM
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HAAHA I thought the guy died from the title of the thread///but he's alive.
Crazyness..going that fast and not looking out for that van
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Old Sep 14, 2007 | 10:24 PM
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So much for a kill switch
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Old Sep 15, 2007 | 04:54 AM
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Originally Posted by tuan92129
Crazyness..going that fast and not looking out for that van
Who taught the boss to drive?

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Old Sep 15, 2007 | 11:06 AM
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Some of the replies on that link are pretty funny. One of my favorites is:

"Yes, but what about 60 to 0 mph?!?!?!"
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Old Sep 15, 2007 | 07:39 PM
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Hehe, I wondered how fast he stopped

0-60= 0.97 sec
60-0= ??? sec
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Old May 26, 2022 | 05:23 PM
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All of the recent EV threads made me think about this oldie but a goodie. Necrobump!


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Old May 26, 2022 | 05:50 PM
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The diesel motorcycle is much cooler.

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Old May 26, 2022 | 06:18 PM
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I watched that whole thing waiting for him to run into the side of a car like the aptly named killacycle. Disappointed!
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