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Note: due to our patent filings and the rules of US and Foreign patents, certain areas of the electric superbike cannot be protographed and shown to the public at this time - we have tried to show as much as possible in light of these regulations - enjoy!

Dyno Runs Below Are Available as Video at www.youtube.com/chipyates

(above) Side view of the world's most powerful and technically advanced electric superbike unveiled at The Battery Show! (Oct 5, 2010).

(above) Side view of the world's most powerful and technically advanced electric superbike strapped down to the dyno and about to smoke the tires with its ridiculous and vicious power delivery! (Sept 17, 2010).

(above) Rear view of the world's most powerful and technically advanced electric superbike sitting on the dyno, about to surprise the sh*t out of this dyno operator! (Sept 17, 2010).

 (above) The world's most powerful electric superbike literally smokes its Dunlop race tire on the dyno. The extreme and instantaneous power delivery simply exceeded the ability of the tire and dyno drum to transfer it!  Note the smoke just in front of the rear tire.  Even though we had the RPM limited to 6,000 for this particular test, the engine and chain screaming was so loud we needed earplugs! (Sept 17, 2010).

(above) Chip Yates describes the power delivery as VICIOUS and clowns around in celebration at the results of another awesome dyno test! (Sept 17, 2010).

(above) Rear view of the world's most powerful and technically advanced electric superbike (August 26, 2010).

(above) Top down view with the gas tank removed - note the high voltage control box on the left and three orange high voltage cables connected to the UQM motor controller on the right. (August 22, 2010)

(above) View of the SWIGZ.COM 500 Amp DC motor controller made by UQM.  Connections to the front include 420 Volts DC Input, 3 Phase 500 Amp output connections to the 194HP motor, and coolant in and out hoses. (August 22, 2010)

(above) The world's most powerful superbike on it's journey from ridiculous to very ridiculous - today gets its radiators, coolant pump and battery pack ram air ducting...do you really want to compete against this? (July 18, 2010)

(above) Another sexy view of the undercarriage. With the new batteries we're considering, we can lose the lower battery tray and go back to our lower fairing. (July 18, 2010)

 (above) Side view of some very serious stuff - will rip your arm off if you don't know what you're doing! (July 18, 2010) (above) View of our dual radiators and coolant fittings - one radiator is dedicated to the 194 hp electric motor and the other is dedicated to the 500 amp motor controller. (July 18, 2010)

(above) The SWIGZ.COM Pro Racing electric superbike underwent final frame welding modifications and was stripped and painted in July, 2010 a nice orange to complement our new color scheme - seen above getting reassembled after painting. (July 17, 2010)

(above) The heart of our patent-pending control system is the venerable MoTeC Advanced Central Logger (ACL).  Straight out of Formula 1 car racing, we have configured the ACL to run dual CAN bus networks at 1 Gbps each to talk to the 500-amp motor controller as well as the MoTeC Sport Dash Logger (SDL). We also set up the ACL to talk to GPS over an RS232 bus and we have configured it to talk over an RS422 bus to our MicroStrain aircraft AHRS (Attitude Heading and Reference System), which provides 6 degrees of sensing freedom via 3 MEMs gyros and 3 MEMs accelerometers to send pitch, yaw and roll along with angular rates and longitudinal acceleration to our ACL for the processing of our lean angle traction control and wheelie control. We are using the MoTeC's 30 real-time advanced maths channels and user tables to implement our control and race finishing solutions. From our research, no other team has anything like this level of capability.

(above) Side view of the superbike with the front fairing removed - the top shelf is the MoTeC ECU shelf where all the algorithms are implemented and our high speed GPS processor also resides upstairs.  The lower shelf is where our throttle position and KERS position sensors are housed.

(above) In this photo, the top shelf is removed.  The carbon fiber shelf below the MoTeC ECU shelf is where we keep our throttle position sensor and KERS position sensor. We use OEM throttle position sensors with cable actuation from the handle bars for reliability.  The horn is required by electric racing regulations for safety.

(above) The MicroStrain Inertia-Link (black box) talks to our MoTeC ACL over RS422 and we have configured it to burst sensor attitude data at 100 Hz for calculation by the ACL in real time.

(above) The MicroStrain Inertia-Link sensor is programmed at SWIGZ.COM Pro Racing headquarters before being installed on the superbike. Other advanced race teams may be able to measure lean angle as a data acquisition parameter to review later in the pits, but our MoTeC ACL is able to process the lean angle data IN REAL TIME and output control signals over CAN to our 500-amp motor controller in response to lean angle and wheelie angle for on-track safety and performance. From our research, except for MotoGP, no other team has this level of real-time capability.

(above) Our "Push-To-Pass" feature - when activated, a burst of power is provided to allow passing of other riders and a blue/red indicator is shown on the MoTeC Shift Light Module (SLM) which also works over our CAN network and is fully programmable. When the pass button is released, our proprietary race finishing algorithm resumes its control and recomputes how much battery capacity remains and resets the power ceiling to ensure a race finish at maximum power.

(above) In the event of a malfunction or miscalculation, the rider may override the race finishing algorithms by flipping the "Finish" switch on the left handle bar. In this situation, a set of 4 red lights are shown on the MoTeC SLM and the rider is in full control of the battery usage but must keep an eye on the MoTeC dashboard, which displays battery capacity remaining on the right side.

(above) The rider has a 12-position traction control / power switch on the left bar, which reports its setting to the MoTeC dash board on the bottom row of information.

(above) The Manzanita battery charging rack is shown next to the superbike during the rebuild after frame painting. Note the charging regulators attached to aluminum heat sinks on the back side of the mobile rack. These allow the current to individual cells to be shunted as heat to prevent overcharging while in the pits. Manzanita is a sponsor of the SWIGZ.COM electric superbike.

(above) Sponsor Swift Engineering has contributed significant engineering resources especially for the mounting of the 194 hp liquid cooled electric motor neatly into our superbike chassis. Note the three high power cables leading to the motor from the motor controller.

(above) The 194 hp superbike motor from a top view. Note mounting using the four stock motor mounting points in the superbike chassis, and the blue coolant fittings on the left side of the motor.

(above) Ohlins custom made rear shock featuring special valving and higher-than-normal spring rate to account for the extra weight of the SWIGZ.COM electric superbike.  Ohlins USA also provided custom front forks with special valving and springs as well.  Ohlins USA is a sponsor of the SWIGZ.COM electric superbike program.

(above) One of the battery packes built by SWIGZ.COM Pro Racing before being scrapped as too heavy and not providing enough power. Thousands of dollars have been spent on batteries, connectors, custom terminals and mounting that have been scrapped resulting in our team missing races this year. SWIGZ.COM Pro Racing is committed to racing this superbike as it was meant to be raced - with the full 194 hp available to the rider from a high-performance battery pack.