The document discusses the Mirror Dinghy, a sailboat designed in 1962 that became a popular competitive sailing class. Over 90,000 boats have been built from kits, with thousands more homemade clones. It grew organically through community involvement and refinement over time. Key lessons highlighted include affordable DIY manufacturing, community support, and fun/competitive spirit. The rest of the document discusses plans for an open source electric motorcycle project called Open Moto X. Reasons given for pursuing this include the DIY culture around motorcycles and the large existing and projected market for electric bikes and motorcycles worldwide. The project status as of June 2010 is inspiration and process established but lacking people and results.

1. Open Moto X design, build,race 2.0 Drumbeatpresentation v.01 PY 2.6.2010

2. TheMirrorDinghy Designed 1962 Inspiration: Barry Bucknell

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5. TheMirrorDinghy Design refined by dinghy designer Jack Holt

6. TheMirrorDinghy At least 90,000 boats built from kits (2006) Thousands more "clones" built from plans Competitive sport

7. TheMirrorDinghy Competitive sport: 1966 First Mirror Dinghy European Championship 40 cars towed their dinghies from the UK to the South of France for a regatta Not seek permission from the international Yachting association They did it themselves Grassroots, bottom-up sports organization

8. TheMirrorDinghy European Championships 2006:

9. TheMirrorDinghy Often cited as the reason why Great Britain dominates Olympic Sailing

10. TheMirrorDinghy Unique Selling Proposition: "Build your own sail boat" Requires no special tools or expertise Broad, inclusive community Boat evolved over time: First community prototyped then adopted more modern sail designs, latercomposite plastic hulls, kevlar rigging

11. TheMirrorDinghy Unique Selling Proposition: "Build your own sail boat" Freedom Requires no special tools or expertise Participative Broad, inclusive community Decentralised Boat evolved over time: modern sail designs, composite plastic hulls, kevlar rigging Generative

12. TheMirrorDinghy Key lessons: Affordable, "good enough" DIY manufacture Media sponsor for communications Professional brand and marketing Community support Fun, experimental Competitive sport

13. Open Moto X DIY spirit in an electric race bike

14. Why a motorcycle? Cars are muchtoobigtobuild in a gardenshed, a garageor in a smallworkshop Almostimpossibleforanenthusiastor home buildertobuildfromscratch

16. Large "motorcycleaccessories" and "tuning" specialistsdesign and sell modular upgrades

17. Tuningcomponents can be "plugged in"

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20. Electric vs gas Much more eco-friendly Relatively simple Movingparts: 15 onanelectricBrammoEnertia (including light switches, horn, indicators, on/off buttons, twist grip)

21. Electric vs gas Much more eco-friendly Relatively simple Movingparts: 15 onanelectricBrammoEnertia Lessthanhalfthenumberfoundin theclutch of a gas poweredbike.

22. Electric vs gas Much more eco-friendly Relatively simple DIY buildspossiblewith a vibrant sub-cultureemerging

23. Whyanelectricmotorcycle? 22.2 million eBikes sold in China in 2009

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25. Whyanelectricmotorcycle? 16 million predicted to be sold in Europe by 2016

26. Whyanelectricmotorcycle? "...more than 466 million e-bikes, e-motorcycles, and e-scooters will be sold worldwide during the period from 2010 to 2016." Pike Research, cleantech market intelligence. February 2010http://tinyurl.com/emotomarket

27. Whyanelectricmotorcycle? 466 million potential fans for Electric Motorcycle racing

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