On The Pegs June 2019 - Volume 4 - Issue 6 | Page 37

On The Pegs
Vol. 4 Issue 6 - June 2019
37
THE SILENT REVOLUTION
IS UNDERWAY!
With the popularity of electric motorcycles growing everyday and the top
manufacturers now truly invested to make electric a solid part of their offer-
ing, stunt rider Chris Northover has teamed up with film maker Oli Tennent and
OSET Bikes to show off just what these incredible machines can do in the hands
of a pro and how the riding experience and connection to the riders environ-
ment differs – for the positive!
Chris is known for his amazing video ‘Storm the embassy’ which now has over
20 million views, where again on this OSET electric bike, he shows just how ver-
satile and fun electric motorcycles can be in urban environments.
In this new video ‘Silent Running’ its all about the different riding experience
you get on a virtually silent motorcycle and the connection a rider had with their
natural environment.
“For me, motorcycles started with an engine,” said Northover. “The smell of the
fuel. The smell of the exhaust. To learning to kick start my first bike. Now electric
bikes have come along, and we’ve lost some of those smells and those sounds,
but we haven’t lost any of the experience.”