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1992 Kawasaki ZR1100. $2000

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MacDoc said:
Someone might be in for a treat for $700 !!!!!!! 54,512 km a true shed queen
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The most impressive atribut that i can think of with that era of can of tuna is how far that they can slide on pavement before they start shooting sparks.
A regular old hockey puck they were.
 
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gets 280 to 330 km per charge and his has 60,000 km on it. Go fast bike for sure and 1 hour charge under best practice
Overnight on any wall plug.
I just adore his bike but the equivalent is $42k Australian
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gets 280 to 330 km per charge and his has 60,000 km on it. Go fast bike for sure and 1 hour charge under best practice
Overnight on any wall plug.
I just adore his bike but the equivalent is $42k Australian
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Hold up, didn't he replace and upgrade the battery once or twice? Is what he has for a battery now equivalent to what the bike is selling with?
 
No he did not replace the battery - there have been software upgrades for the battery which have given him more range ....but he kept refusing to pay the premium for the unlock that would have given him 10% more capacity ....he thought that was not fair just as he thought charging a fee to enable reversing not a fair charge.
His motor is failing ( audibly ) so his range is down to 180 or so and he has no solution that is not a ridiculous price.
It's a big ticket to replace the motor, it's not serviceable and it puts Zero in an awkward position as a motor on an expensive EV bike should not fail that early.

Reminds me of Suzuki and the big 650 Burgman which was supposed to have the "forever belt" ......never needing replacing or adjustment.
Well they did not figure on the kind of distances north American riders would put on and there were a rash of failures in the 60-80,000 mile range.....a very expensive failure unless you do your own wrenching. $500 if you DIY but not an easy task. $2k for the dealer to do.
Now most occurred on the 2003/4 model year and I have not checked back in a few years.
I sold both of my 650s after about 60k km to avoid the risk which on a $17,000 bike was not an acceptable risk.
I see there was one 650 with 178k km on it but that was with a second belt.

It will need to be something EV motorcycle designers keep in mind if they want to compete with ICE.
 
MacDoc said:
No he did not replace the battery - there have been software upgrades for the battery which have given him more range ....but he kept refusing to pay the premium for the unlock that would have given him 10% more capacity ....he thought that was not fair just as he thought charging a fee to enable reversing not a fair charge.
His motor is failing ( audibly ) so his range is down to 180 or so and he has no solution that is not a ridiculous price.
It's a big ticket to replace the motor, it's not serviceable and it puts Zero in an awkward position as a motor on an expensive EV bike should not fail that early.

Reminds me of Suzuki and the big 650 Burgman which was supposed to have the "forever belt" ......never needing replacing or adjustment.
Well they did not figure on the kind of distances north American riders would put on and there were a rash of failures in the 60-80,000 mile range.....a very expensive failure unless you do your own wrenching. $500 if you DIY but not an easy task. $2k for the dealer to do.
Now most occurred on the 2003/4 model year and I have not checked back in a few years.
I sold both of my 650s after about 60k km to avoid the risk which on a $17,000 bike was not an acceptable risk.
I see there was one 650 with 178k km on it but that was with a second belt.

It will need to be something EV motorcycle designers keep in mind if they want to compete with ICE.
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It's probably more of a pencil pushing problem than a designer problem. They know you need the part so they price it to the moon. Like every appliance where the control board is priced over 50% of the entire appliance. They could sell it for a tenth of that and still make bank but they have chosen to be evil and put profits ahead of people (and environment as lots of things end up in the garbage due to cost to repair).
 
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MacDoc said:
No he did not replace the battery - there have been software upgrades for the battery which have given him more range ....but he kept refusing to pay the premium for the unlock that would have given him 10% more capacity ....he thought that was not fair just as he thought charging a fee to enable reversing not a fair charge.
His motor is failing ( audibly ) so his range is down to 180 or so and he has no solution that is not a ridiculous price.
It's a big ticket to replace the motor, it's not serviceable and it puts Zero in an awkward position as a motor on an expensive EV bike should not fail that early.
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Oh ok cool. I could have sworn 2-3 years ago he got a battery replaced under warranty or something, or upgraded... I can't remember now. I just seem to remember something about him saying he now had more range, which to me implied that he previously had less range, so maybe I assumed that was due to something changing with the bike... who knows...

Anyway, seems like Marc is pretty ****** with Zero based on this Facebook and Twitter posts haha.

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I recall when KTM bailed on Long Way Around ....while it ended up not to be complementary to BMW those bikes were stupidly over loaded. The camera man had the correct ride.

Meanwhile total utter noobs Lavi and Ollie navigate a 1000cc Vstrom two up around the world.

Marc is a good ambassador for ZERO despite his headaches. It's a marvelous bike. Jealous all the time.
 
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