I recently discovered a store in my country that only sells electric bikes and some of the models are impressive.
For an average price of €4000, you get really nice bikes with ranges up to 100km and top speeds up to 90km/h.
Batteries are removable and chargeable from a standard wall socket.
At current energy prices, a full charge costs €1
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Rating from how much the bikers here love the loud noise they are making, one would probably have to find a new range of customers for bikes that don’t wake up the neighborhood at three in the night when one returns from a late evening with his biker friends.
That’d be me lol, motorcycles seem cool but I hate how obnoxiously loud ICE ones are.
Not all ICE motorcycles are like that. Some people straight pipe their motorcycle to make it obnoxiously loud. But my Suzuki GZ250 is fairly quiet, even at full throttle at 8000rpm you couldn’t hear it from a block away
Full time motorcyle commuter with a one bike garage currently on a straight pipe Duke 390, it was like that when I bought it.
Kawi’s hybrid looks interesting. Electric when it can be, petrol when it has to be, good mileage, does motorway(ish) speeds, won’t wake the neighbours.
But, it’s on a sportbike platform and I dunno how comfortable it’ll be to commute on, not sure it’s quick enough to get my jollies on the weekends, and lacks some commuter mod-cons I would expect for modern ride-by-wire (like cruise control) and it’s going to be expensive. I’ll test ride one but I’m not too hopeful
I want to make the jump to electric. But the 390 ticks more boxes, almost quick enough, really light, sorta good milage, cheap af. But it is full petrol and it is loud, I ride with plugs so I’ve never cared enough to change it.
