Heard an ad on the radio yesterday that referred to a shortage of new motorcycles for sale in NZ. Guess that includes electric ones too.
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Surely that is enought to put you off buying one of that particular brand? None in stock. No idea if there is going to be future stock. What would happen in a warranty situation? My bro in law works at a dealership that sells those super soco. He reckons they are crap, his opinion, but they don't have a demo I can test ride either!
It is a bit of a catch 22 in that if we don't buy the current models, the effort put into improving the future models gets pushed further back into the background.
I would be interested in a bike that would be great fun for 300km. Currently nothing comes remotely close to that. The Livewire would defo be fun by the sounds but at "fun" levels you would be lucky to get 70km. And you are paying 2x superbike price for that.
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Mmm - That's a real shame. There's definitely a chicken-and-egg situation here isn't there? In terms of not having affordable Electric bikes to try and therefore the word not spreading far and wide enough.
I can't wait until an electric bike is affordable (Sub $25k) and gives you a reasonable range at open road speeds (200+KM I'm thinking). Here's hoping.
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Well timed thread. I think I got passed by a SurRon today. (I was going slow delivering mail). I thought it must have been a battery assisted push bike but apparently not!
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Na, riding an electric bike? You might as well handout passports to your arse.
I'm curious why a belt drive is not a good choice from your perspective. I've had belt drives on 4 out of my last 6 bikes and they are easy to maintain, replace, and don't need oil etc. I demo'd a LiveWire last year in the US, 5 rides in an afternoon (as the HD traditionalists were not keen :-) ) and found it quiet, smooth, very fast and with the best lean angle ever.
I wuz talking about electric bikes with a mate recently and he mentioned that a lot have belt drive.
We pondered a bit and one of the reasons we pondered was noise. Chains are really noisy on an electric bike.
Could be frictional losses or weight.
Dunno.
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