How to turn a Zero S into a racer

This is the Zero S race bike Zero engineer Kenyon Kluge will be campaigning at the TTXGP this weekend. To create it he dropped the frame onto a GSX-R1000 front end, ditched the on-board charger and added a little more…

That's a lot of batteries

But they only add up to 11.5kWh of capacity, meaning the LiFePO4 Lithium-Ion batteries aren't achieving great power density. The Swigz Pro Racing Electric Superbike is going to need that capacity too if it's going to use all its 194bhp…

12 teams enter inaugural American TTXGP

Electric motorcycle racing is coming to America on May 16 with 12 teams entering the first-ever TTXGP race to take place on this continent. To put that in perspective, there were 20 entries at the fledgling series' first race at…

Zero partners with Agni for inaugural US TTXGP

Zero Motorcycles CEO Gene Banman has exclusively revealed to Hell For Leather that his company will be partnering with Agni Motors to create a new motorcycle to enter the first American TTXGP race on May 16. The partnership makes a…

TTXGP Trust: own electric motorcycle racing

Seventy percent of ownership in TTXGP is being turned over to participating teams in a move designed not only to encourage new entries in the international electric motorcycle racing series, but also to give those teams a controlling interest in…

Michael Czysz on streamlining and electric racing

In 1957 dustbin fairings were banned from road racing, now some people think it's a good idea to bring them back- They are seriously mistaken.Editor's note: Michael Czysz is the man behind MotoCzysz, one of the chief innovators in electric…