Weight saving where you need it the most

[bones1999]

I now have seven dealers signed up with Scooter World in Auckland signing yesterday, so with dealers so far in Whangaparaoa, Silverdale, Auckland, Hamilton, Taupo and Wellington I have to consider their interests and support them.

I will now be referring future enquiries to your local dealer. It would be unethical for me to offer a discounted price directly in competition to my dealers, so while KB has been a valuable start for me, I'm sure everyone will understand that I can no longer offer a discounted price through the website.

My purpose was to establish a dealer network throughout the country and withdraw from retail sales altogether once I had enough to do the job.

So please do support your local dealer as the batteries truly are unique and well worth the money which really isn't any more than you would be paying out anyway taking their life into acount.

Fair enough, but how about Taranaki, anything lined up??

[Edbear]

[Fair enough, but how about Taranaki, anything lined up??

Nothing yet, any suggestions?

[Edbear]

Had a great weekend there what with the V8's, m/cycle and Swap Meet on Saturday and street races Sunday. It was the most relaxed and pleasurable way to "do business". Staying at Miranda, dinners at Kaiuaua, lovely!

Had the pleasure of meeting more people and putting faces to names as well as catching up with others I know again.

It was great to meet Karl Morgan, a very nice young man who deserves all the support he can get. I was introduced by him to Gentleman Ray Clee and was impressed with his quiet self-effacing manner and down to earth natural way of speaking. Quick, quiet and professional we had a good chat about Suzuki's - I think I convinced him of the superiority of the Kizashi over its competition...

To top it off he is now a dealer for Shorai! He and Karl were very impressed with them and Ray will be running them in his race bikes.

I have a few more dealers lined up and will be signing them this week. Watch this space for some well known racing identities to be dealer in your area.

I am already referring customers to my dealers and am getting regular orders from my earlier dealers now.

Scooter World in Kelston is now a dealer so anyone over that way can pop in and check them out. Malcolm was Gobsmacked, that word comes up all the time with Shorai, at the huge weight difference and has reported his BMW GS is going great with its new 21A. He's dropped from 6kg to 1.6kg with more power!

Sean Donelly is rapt with the performance and reliability of his 18A1 and several others who have been using them said how good they were with no complaints or any issues!

My sales have jumped 300% over the last three months and this is only just starting!

[Edbear]

Aircraft Logistics Support in Rangiora is now a dealer, my first in the South Is. He emailed me as soon as he got his sample 9A and couldn't over the tiny size and weight compared to his little 4A.

[Edbear]

Experience Motorcycles is now my main Auckland dealer! Call in and have a chat to Daniel, Dave or Neil. Daniel is very excited about the technology and will be featuring them on his Kawasaki stand at Hampton Downs, Sunday 18th! To say he was impressed with the weight and performance of the Shorai would be a massive understatement!

Travis Moan will be using one in his S1000RR from now on. He probably doesn't know it yet...

So do stop in and have a chat to Daniel and the guys, I'll be around also if anyone wants more detailed tech info or if Daniel's too busy.

So that makes 14 dealers so far throughout NZ with more on the way!

[Edbear]

I thought it was time to update on progress in signing dealers for the batteries. I now have a lot of the country covered, but much more to go. So here's a list of dealers so far that may be in your area. Please pop in and see them and you can check out the batteries. Tell them Ed sent you...

Dealer	Address	Phone
Hibiscus Coast Service Centre	2/23 David Sidwell Pl. Whangaparaoa	ph. 09-242 0477
North Harbour Batteries	Unit 1 70 Forge Rd. Silverdale	ph. 0800 53 63 74
Watercraft World/Auckland Yamaha	346 Church St.. Penrose	ph. (09) 525 0300
Scooter Imports	52 Roma Rd. Mt. Roskill	ph. 09-620 6626
Ram Solutions	Newmarket	ph. 0800 246 426
Experience Motorcycles	625 New North Rd. Kingsland	ph.09-845 5950
RCMP, Ray Clee, RCM Performance	1d Woodruffe Ave. Henderson	Ph. 09-838 2036
Biggles Racing	Waitakere, Auckland	ph. 021-921 794
Boyd Motorcycles	403 Te Rapa Rd. Hamilton	Ph: 07 838 1209
Surtees Boats	2909 State Highway 30, RD2 Whakatane	07 322 8461
Helispecs	1067 Poihipi Rd. Taupo	07-376 7628
Wellington Motorcycles	12 Kent Terrace, Wellington	ph. 04-384 4149
Scooterazzi	185 Victoria St. Te Aro, Wellington	(04) 978 7388
Aircraft Logistics Support	Airfield Road, Rangiora Airfield, Rangiora	ph. 03-310 7290
FILCO Farm and Sport	Regent Park 141/143 Quarantine Rd. Annesbrook, Nelson	Phone (03) 547 2420

I have a few more interested and am going through the processs with them, so will update again once I have a few more on board.

[Maha]

Looking good there Ed, you must be really chuffed at that so far?

[Edbear]

Looking good there Ed, you must be really chuffed at that so far?

That's an understatement, mate! I'll be at HD with Experience Motorcycles on their Kawasaki stand where they will be featuring the batteries. Travis Moan will have one in his S1000RR, too.

Sorry MT I'll try to learn how...

[quickbuck]

I'll be at HD with Experience Motorcycles on their Kawasaki stand where they will be featuring the batteries.

Will you be at Taupo the following weekend??

[Edbear]

Will you be at Taupo the following weekend??

I can't be sure at this stage. I would like to be but won't know my full schedule until after this weekend. I'll let you know on here.

[quickbuck]

I can't be sure at this stage. I would like to be but won't know my full schedule until after this weekend. I'll let you know on here.

Sweet man.
I see Biggles is a distributor in any case. I will catch up with him.

[Edbear]

Sweet man.
I see Biggles is a distributor in any case. I will catch up with him.

Yup! He's very pleased with his!

[sil3nt]

Has there been any problems with batteries at low temperatures? Read somewhere that they don't go too well when it starts getting cold.

[Edbear]

Has there been any problems with batteries at low temperatures? Read somewhere that they don't go too well when it starts getting cold.

If cold enough they can be a bit sluggish at first go but if the temp is very cold, turn the ignition and lights on for a minute or two while you finish getting your gear on. This will warm the battery up and give full kick. If below freezing you might need to allow five minutes, but even without waiting, the first try would have warmed it some and each start after that will get it warmer.

They work the opposite way to a lead acid which gives greatest kick first and then gets weaker with each start attempt. Never had one fail to start a bike or car or boat or helicopter yet.

[Edbear]

R & R Powersports are now a dealer in Albany. If you know Lincoln and have work done by him for your bike Kart or Jetski, ask him what he thinks about the Shorai batteries!

I'd approached him some time ago and he declined but recently he was able to experience the Shorai difference personally with an 18A in a race jetski. To say he was blown away is about right, he rang me eating his words and said he wanted to sign up immediately!

He had a problematic race ski that frequently stranded the rider on the start line as the new, fully charged Yuasa would barely turn the crank enough to start and after one go called it quits requiring a boat to go out with a 30Kg starter pack. Why so hard to start? It just happens to be the former world champion's ski and has a very high performance motor with 56mm carbs and 95mm pistons! I think he mentioned something like 100km/h in 2.9sec...

The other issue was that the Yuasa was too heavy to mount up front and had to be mounted in the rear, requiring 3m of cabling, reducing its efficiency. The Shorai being smaller and so much lighter, could be mounted up front with minimal cable length to the starter.

So the owner comes along to try out this new fangled battery, without too much in the way of hope it would be a lot better...

He called in the other day to pick up two more to take to the jetski championship this week and was absolutely fizzing! He claimed the motor was running before it had done a complete revolution! It wasn't a case of winding for a few turns, he emphasised it was literally instant starting! He hit the starter and it immediately burst into life, he nearly fell over! He took it down to the river for tuning and testing and he was shaking his head as the ski started instantly time and time again with no drop in performance of the battery... until it died. What went wrong?

He runs total loss electrics and didn't give the battery a boost charge all day... So he becomes the first person to flatten a Shorai battery by cranking an engine... He accepted it was his fault.