An electric flat tracker rises from the ashes of Alta
Elegant is not often a word used to describe electric bikes, but this pared-down tracker is both petite and beautiful. It?s from a new shop called Blatant Moto, based in the Dogpatch area of San Francisco?and the builders obviously know what they are doing.
?We?re three ex-Alta employees,? says designer and co-founder John McInnis. ?The same group that put together the Crapshoot, an Alta-powered drag bike.?
That explains the pro level of thinking and finishing on this build, nicknamed ?The Death Rattle.?
After the fall of Alta, John and his friends Vinnie Falzon (assembly line supervisor) and Brandon Dawson (quality control) had a few ideas kicking around. They were ideas that never saw the light of day while the company was making motocross machines.
?One of the ideas was a flat track race bike, with proper frame geometry, that would maximize the advantages of the Redshift drivetrain on a short track,? he reveals.
John had access?albeit limited?to a few drivetrain parts that were going to be scrapped. Many of the parts were from Alta?s testing fleet, or were engineering samples going through development.
Sitting on the bench were a battery, a rear bulkhead, a motor and the reduction gear.
Around those parts, Blatant have built a trellis front frame section using chromoly tubing and a swingarm. These lowered and steepened the head tube and shortened the wheelbase for better race geometry.
?We put together a frame jig specific to this bike. We set our wheelbase, h...
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