Funky E-Raw Electric Moto Pushes Boundaries

Imagine pluggin in this clean lttle rig at night for cool, quite, free energy ride in the morning. Electric motorcycle designers can freely experiment with all sorts of funky ideas that would simply never fly in the dirty petrol bike world. For example, the e-raw from France’s Expemotion, featuring a floating seat made from 80-odd layers of wood laminate, and using an iPhone as a dash dash.

Obviously, the e-raw is clearly designed for funk only and not production. The process of creating that extraordinary laminate seat unit appears to be painstaking, time-consuming and bordering silly. The bike’s clean design benefits from creator Martin Hulin not bothering to stick brake lights or indicators on it.

The point? It’s an example of what can be achieved when hardware and plumbing associated with a combustion engine is ditched in favour of a electric unit clean machine.

“With the fuel tank gone, Hulin has been able to keep mass low and central while sticking on that eye-popping seat unit,” Gismag says

“It’s a retro-futuristic design and Hulin seems clearly to be a lover of gas bikes as well, describing in poetic French his appreciation of the “charming sounds and perfumes” of the petrol motor, but saying they must give way to the “osmotic silence and transcendental flow” of the electric. Personally, I can see that wooden seat rudely interrupting my “transcendental flow,” but then comfort is frequently the first casualty on a custom bike.

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