Jay Leno’s Thoughts on Electric Bikes
I I switch bikes all the time, so it’s not like I ride one all the time. So, you kind of go, “Oh, this feels a little weird.” Then you get on the the big chief there, the Indian, and that thing is hysterical. What do you think about the electric bikes that are coming? That seems to be the next thing. I got one next door. I got the uh I say Enerica, but but it’s not I’m pronouncing it wrong. It’s Italian. It is great. It is 180 horsepower. I’m stunned at how good it is. That’s amazing. Uh because I’m like it’s smooth, it’s quiet. Um it just pulls so hard. Uh no, it it’s a great bike. I have to admit I really enjoy driving it or riding it. I mean, I think the big game changer will be synthetic fuels. Okay. If they can come up with synthetic fuels, right now it’s $25 a gallon, but if you can get it down to5 or $6 a gallon, cuz nobody doesn’t like the internal combustion engine, just doesn’t like the fuel that it burns. It’s dirty, it’s messy, it’s, you know, ruining the environment, blah blah. If you can get it to be clean, huh, what’s the problem? Then it’s like a watch. Sure. It’s just a mechanical device that moves, you know, one. And that’s a a rough racing bike from the period. This is amazing. I see a motorcycle like this and I’m saying this separates the men from the boys if you look at the suspension. Yeah. Run 130 150 on that. It is pretty crazy. But the one thing American bikes had over European bikes were they were dependable because in America you’re just covering great distances all the time, you know. So you wanted something that’s easy to start. Compression ratio is pretty low. I mean this probably hasn’t been started in oh a month or two. A month or two. I love that that I I go to so many collections where the bikes haven’t been started in years. Oh no. You have battery tenders on every single one. I love it. Let’s see if it’s Look at this. Look at this. [Applause] That’s amazing. Wow. You see how easy it starts? Yeah. Amazing. Amazing. Wow. Got all kinds of power. You know, it’s interesting. I’ll show you. I sure wish my two-stroke started up that easy. Well, I know. You know these, like when you when you sold a bike in England, you had to have two brakes. Mhm. Didn’t say where they had to be. So, they put both brakes on the rear. Let me show you how when you ride this thing. Uhhuh. Okay. You’re on the bike, right? For example, do you know what these are? The the grips. Yeah, but this is something people restore bikes and they forget this. The handlebar ends here. The idea behind this bike when you’re on it, when you’re rolling down the road, you slide your hands back and this takes the pounding out of it because you see now you’re just relying on the rubber here. Okay? So, it’s like you you you solid mount the engine and rubber mount the rider. Okay? But when you drive this thing, okay, you got your brake, you got your foot clutch, then you have this brake breaks uh the right side. Okay, this one left side rather. This one breaks that. So when you come to a stop, you need to do this put on both. Wow. But then now you can’t hit the clutch. So you throw the hand clutch in and then when you pull away you go back to the foot clutch slowly release the hand clutch as you open the you just sail through stop like excuse me excuse me excuse me you know you yeah it’s a bit of a challenge ride but but it’s so much fun to ride so back then you really needed a skill set and you had to be familiar with the bike you couldn’t just jump on a bike like you can today yeah that’s probably true to say wow but it’s a but you dead reliable. You have a proper modern, reasonably modern ignition system. Well, you saw how easily it fired. Unbelievable. And three times, the first two just to to pull the gas in. Nice old Indian. Unre unrestored, right? Unrestored. Yeah, I think that’s fair to say. Only only original once, right? A lot of these are unrestored. Yeah. This is a Scout with a with a Chief motor in it. Uh, this one here is a 26 Harley JD. I imagine we got a story here, huh? Yeah, she runs I mean it’s all original. This is a 1918 Pope bike was so advanced for Harley. It was they thought it was actually too advanced because they had, you know, overhead valves. You had four gears instead of three. I mean, it just seemed like, oh, this is too complex for most people, you know. And it’s a wonderful riding bike. It seemed enormous back in the day, but it actually seems small when you ride it now. What blows my mind when I see bikes this old is how ahead of their time they were with the aesthetics, how appealing the bike looks. It’s just a beautiful motorcycle. They Well, it really only looks that way because that’s the way it has to look. I mean, that’s the way the engine, you know, I mean, form follows function kind of deal that, you know, they called the knuckle because this looked like knuckles in a hand, but when they designed it, that’s the best they could make it. And oh, and it turned out to be, you know, sure, you know, sometimes a lot of it, hindsight, like when I hear for a group called the Beatles, I went, that’s kind of a stupid name, Beatles. But then you hear the music and you go, “Oh, it’s a cool now. It’s a cool name.” Like the name Bruce, you know, Bruce was kind of a odd name when I was a kid. Then you have Bruce Springsteen come. Oh, and it’s a cool name. It’s a cool name. Yeah. You know, so it all it all depends who who sets his name. Heat. Heat.
We head inside Jay Leno’s Garage to get the legendary Late Night and avid motorcycle and car collector’s true opinion on electric motorcycles. We also watch as Mr. Jay Leno starts up an over 100 year old motorcycle, an Ace. Leave your thoughts on Jay Leno’s super cool motorcycle collection and leave your thoughts on electric motorcycles #motorcycles #biker #electricbike #electricmotorcycle #jayleno
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