Thread: E-bikes, E-hunting bikes - what've you got?

Mate called in over the weekend and we're talking hunting bikes etc. He mentioned he went hunting on a big Waiararpa station at the beginning of the year. The guy was raving about the brand new Tuatara EV side x side he'd just purchased "220 km range, bloody brilliant...."

Looks like the 220 km range must have been on asphaltic concrete, downhill with the wind behind him, cause he went hunting there again 6 months later and asked where the Tuatara was: "piece of shit, hauled a trailer load of posts to the back of the farm (25 km uphill) and the battery said nah halfway back down the hill empty"

Originally Posted by XR500

Mate called in over the weekend and we're talking hunting bikes etc. He mentioned he went hunting on a big Waiararpa station at the beginning of the year. The guy was raving about the brand new Tuatara EV side x side he'd just purchased "220 km range, bloody brilliant...."

Looks like the 220 km range must have been on asphaltic concrete, downhill with the wind behind him, cause he went hunting there again 6 months later and asked where the Tuatara was: "piece of shit, hauled a trailer load of posts to the back of the farm (25 km uphill) and the battery said nah halfway back down the hill empty"

Heard that about the electric ones, very sensitive to load and climbs. Guy I talked to resorted to carting a Honda genset with him and every time he stopped he'd give it a tickle up. I asked him if it made the concept a bit of a fail, change conversation haha. Bit more stable on the hills though, low centre of gravity.