Agni Articles
Light weight, simple and strong: designing triple clamps
Over 150 people entered the contest to design Amarok-Agni racing a new triple clamp. So many good entries, in fact, that Michael Uhlarik and the Amarok crew had a hard time picking a winner. As such, they’ve prepared a list of favorite also-rans, which you’ll find in this gallery. Initially equipped with a pretty ugly item off a late-model Kawasaki, the team needed a triple clamp that could ...
10 June 2011
News
Up close with the dustbin Agni
Photos: Amadeus PhotographyYesterday we showed you the 2010 Agni E1 race bike being campaigned at the TT Zero and suggested its dustbin fairing might not be the ideal solution to aerodynamic efficiency. These new pictures seem to confirm that, the fairing looks like little more than a straight adaptation of shapes last used in the 1950s and no concessions appear to have been made to directing cool...
08 June 2010
News
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 the Isle of Man last June and five entries in the first race of the rival FIM e-Power series. The entries are eclectic, running the gamut from the flashy Mavizen TTX02 and...
05 May 2010
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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 lot of sense; Agni's Cydric Lynch essentially invented the modern archetype for electric vehicle motors, while Zero has enormous expertise in constructing very lightwei...
18 March 2010
News
Team Agni wins inaugural TTXGP
Riding the Agni X01, Rob Barber has won the first TTXGP. The 2007 GSX-R600-based electric motorcycle uses two Agni 95 reinforced motors and a Kokam lithium polymer battery of 42 cells totaling around 12 kilowatt-hours of energy. According to the team, this gave around 40 or 50bhp for the entire length of the race. Barber completed the lap in 25:53.50 averaging 87.434mph and maxing out at 97.8mph a...
12 June 2009