Born from an old BSA, the Veitis eV-Twin is likely to become a small milestone of the new British motorcycling: 11 kW of power and 160 km of autonomy for a clean, classic bobber style built by hand and for a few.
Time ago, Sliding and photos on Instagram, I stumbled upon a strange prototype made on an old British bike, an BSA Bantam. Its owner, Steve Smith, in love with the little English girl had taken to carry it on their yacht and then run around when docked. From good old British bike, however,, He ended up inzozzargli oil and gasoline boat. So he decided to montarci an electric motor.
eV-Twin: mesh up of past and future
The prototype is really unique and attracts the curiosity of Steve's friends, which he is now excited by the electric propulsion and its small invention. So he began to experiment with various solutions and especially to use it tastefully to every berth. Before long the idea of the experiment evolve into something playable and so we come to this Providing eV-Twin, moto 100% electric handcrafted built with only British components (with the exception of Brembo brakes and the watermarked Ceriani fork).
The line is inspired by the old BSA that gave the start to this story, but it evolves into a reinterpretation of classic bobber styling cues of the sixties and frankly I find it successful. The thing that will immediately notice is the presence of the V-Twin or, better, something that resembles in form the V-twin typical American production. This little stylistic contradiction actually gives the bike a more aggressive compared to predecessor, but mostly it is a gimmick to make aesthetically pleasing the battery pack Panasonic and powertrain Ashwoods permanent magnets (IPM).
I am not aware of the battery capacity, Veitis but the site is declared autonomy 100 miles (160 km) which it seems a realistic estimate whereas eV-Twin weighs 165 kg and that the motor is to be Ashwoods 11 kW and it pushes up to 70 mph (112 km/h). So yes, hai capito bene, It is quite similar to a 125 and therefore it can be guided in 16 years or a simple license B. The charging time from 0 a 100% It is estimated at 3 hours and 45 minutes with a Type2 and not missing regen decelerating.
Le prime eV-Twin: few, a few
However, to arrive sore (guess what…). The craftsmanship dictates how we lower numbers on the copies and high numbers regarding the price. Veitis speak 50 examples for 2019, times three-month delivery and a price of 40.000 pounds (45 mila euro), which places surely as an elitist choice.
The importance of eV-Twin
With such a high demand and characteristics from 125, you'd think that this eV-Twin can be simply a little trinket of some rich’ eccentric with a passion for electric bikes. In fact I think we should go a little’ over and see what are its merits as of now. The eV-Twin motorcycle plays with our imagination, reinvents the bike as it is doing, for example, Curtiss Motorcycles, looking for a link with its past. Also it presents us with other questions: it still makes sense the comparison with the displacements? We still have to reason with this parameter? What we have to look on the bikes of the future?
An electric motorcycle that is approved as a 125 actually it has a lot more torque and acceleration and is also absolutely adequate for a more experienced biker who simply wants to improve efficiency, weights, consumption or must not cover long distances (but on this point we could discuss). The merit therefore of this Veitis eV-Twin is to change the perception of the electric motorcycle but I would say the motorcycle in general and we understand in a few years.
Info: www.veitis.com
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