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Just a few months since its first motorcycle, the Redshift, became available to the US market, Alta Motors is set to roll out a new concept model. Inspired by flat track machines, the Street Tracker is conceived as a road-legal battery-powered motorcycle built around the Redshift platform.
Californian startup Alta Motors spent six years setting up a production facility, organizing a dealer network, and developing its first model from the ground up ahead of its market launch in 2016. The Redshift is a lightweight electric off-road motorcycle available in a motocross (MX) and a street-legal supermoto (SM) version.
The American company builds the motorcycle's engine, frame and battery cases in-house, as well as all the electronic gear tasked with controlling the motor's 40 hp (29.8 kW) power and 122 lb-ft (165 Nm) torque output. These are complemented by equipment outsourced from industry leading brands, like WP suspensions and Brembo brakes.
Is there a market for silent motorcycles?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 09 2017, @07:18AM
That's certainly the etymology, and I think it was originally opposed to racing on banked board tracks [wikipedia.org]; however, as it applies to motorcycle racing today, it indicates a specific class of racing on unbanked dirt tracks, and the bikes (with suspension and brakes) used for it; other motorcycle races, such as speedway (with no brakes and no suspension), are not called flat-track, even though they're also run on unbanked dirt tracks. (In general, flat-track is a US thing and speedway is a Europe/Australia thing, so it's maybe not as confusing as it sounds.)