Hi,
This is my first post on this forum that seems to be the largest Zero forum on the internet. I am considering a Zero SR as my daily commuter and hope you guys can give me some advise if the Zero SR 2016 is mature enough to consider...
Some background info:
I am a pretty experienced rider (28 years of active driving) who has always used the motorcycle for commuting. We own a car, but it’s used mainly by my girlfriend and for vacation trips.
Have owned quite some motorcycles (among which a bandit 600, CBR 600/900) and am currently riding a BMW K1300s. I like fast machines, but am mainly using them for commuting.
My girlfriend owns a Harley 883 iron, and she get’s the HOG magazine. There was an interesting article about the Harley LiveWire electric motorcycle and a contest to win a demo ride. Harley invited me for the demo ride (first time I won a prize :-) ) and was blown away by the ride. So smooth, hardly any noise and a lot of usable torque. And the machine looked really nice. If this would have been a production bike, I would have seriously considered it. So I started to see if other’s were also producing electric motorcycles and I found Zero.
Tomorrow I will have a demo ride - then I know how it feels and how it compares to my heavy K1300.
My questions:
Range
Most of my commuting trips are about 20km. One or two times a week I need to make a highway trip of about 140km. When I am in the office I can charge the bike for about 6-8 hours on a normal 220V outlet.
Can a Zero SR 2016 make such a “long†trip? Should I consider the additional batteries?
Fairing
I would really like some sort of fairing for the longer trips.
Is there some real fairing that you can put on a Zero SR? If not: are there any windscreens that you guys recommend?
Cases
Currently I am using a 46 liter Givi topcase. Something like this one:
https://www.louis.eu/artikel/givi-topcase-e460n-monokey/10027370?list=205643867&filter_article_number=10027370Can you fit this on the Zero?
Would that influence the range (too much)? (I noticed that on the BMW, adding the case leads to minor instability - suggesting that there is quite some drag caused by the case)
Any help is appreciated!