Monoracer in action

Here's a video, shot from another vehicle, of a Monoracer doing a gentle lap of the Brno circuit in the hands of it's new, wheelshair-bound, owner

https://vimeo.com/155405950

And there's another. much more committed, in-cockpit, video of an earlier Montracer at the same circuit for most of a lap. I'd say this person knows the cirucit! However this was sent as an attachment and is a file, rather than the link above. This means I can't insert a link to it here, but I have to put it in 'images', displacing the utterely relevent and important picture of an FF that was built eighty odd years ago - with a Villiers engine. Please accept my apologies for this non-achronistic insertion... I blame computers.

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Ah, but no.

Silly me. Obviously it's not possible to put the Monotracer film up on this site, as it;s not a gif, PNG or whatever other thing it's not. So ancient FF pictures get to live another day to delight all those subscribers that would rather look at something that happened in the last millenium than the present.

I'll mention it to Arnold, maybe it'll get put up as a Vimeo link

Fastest on-board lap of Brno and first electric!

A couple of points: 1/ Note that the wheelchair-chap's video mentioned above was shot four years ago, back in 2016, with a converted MonoTracer (with a T) powered by the conventional 1200 BMK K-series engine.
2/ The fastest on-board video'd lap of Brno by a Peraves machine that I have ever seen is the one recorded by Roger Riedener in the first (and only) electric Ecomobile, way back in 2008. It was Roger's personal machine, previously powered by a K1100 motor and converted in collaboration with Arnold's son Felix and the Swiss Brusa electric motor company. This machine here: http://www.bikeweb.com/node/1831
The following year, 2009, the first Monotracer was converted to Brusa power and the year after that, 2010, a second electric Monotracer was built using a more powerful AC Propulsion motor. That was the machine that won its class in the Progressive X-Prize, although both electric Monotracers took part. PNB
This is the weblink to Roger Riedener's quick electric lap of the Brno GP track in the Electric Ecomobile, (which was faster than all the petrol-powered machines that year, despite the rain!).
'X-tracer prototype testing on wet Brno GP racetrack’: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4J4lBIHuvs

Good to know

Good to get some facts from a journo, although I'm totally baffled as to why all this footage hasn't been put up on Bikeweb in all the years since it was shot. Especially Riedners slightly ragged lap. Concerning the wheelchair-based footage, I'm just reporting what I'm told by Arnold, what else would I know? Has Arnold got his dates mixed up? Has he not just delivered a new bike to the guy? And isn't he actually in production with the all-electric Monoracer? Maybe Arnold didn't have a massive falling out with Riedner and have to re-form the whole buisness as Monoracer CZ. Has he dreamed the last five years? I think we should be told.

Really, given the importance of this vehicle to the FF scene, let alone E-vehicles in general, one might think it would be all over the press as a result of specialist journo's seeking the facts - and Peraves CZ putting out press releases, in EMN for instance. I'm obviously not up to speed on the whole business of publicising new production efforts, let alone exciting new FFs. But then, neither is anyone else apparently.

Personally I'm much more interested in what's happening now - and next - with projects like Peraves, than I am with poring endlessly over pictures of something done eighty years ago. Or, in this case, five years ago.

Good to pay attention at what HAS been on bikeweb for many years

Royce said: "I'm totally baffled as to why all this footage hasn't been put up on Bikeweb in all the years since it was shot. Especially Riedners slightly ragged lap." To which I can only reply that I'm baffled as to why Royce never found the link to that very footage which HAS been on bikeweb SINCE 2012!!!! Right here: http://www.bikeweb.com/node/2421
Royce also said: "Concerning the wheelchair-based footage, I'm just reporting what I'm told by Arnold, what else would I know?" Well, I'm just reporting what was clearly written for all the world to see when I clicked on the link to the Vimeo footage that Royce put on bikeweb. Under the title "Don't stop me now" are the words "4 years ago". It's obviously a petrol-powered machine because there's a soddin' great chrome silencer clearly visible on the left hand side. The electric machines do not have such devices fitted...PNB