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Folks, it's been a great year or so with my SR. If I ever again buy a bike, it will more than likely be electric. The Zero has been tons of fun. Time for a change though - seems like 4 wheels will serve me better, so my '15 SR will soon be off to its new owner.

The exciting part (at least for me) is who got it. Once the sale is final (and provided this is not some elaborate scam or prank), I'll share more. I think there is a chance we might see it in a certain very famous race coming in June 

I'm curious whether the "Batt Dischg Cur Limited" message that we see in our log files appears when we attempt to ask for more current than the bike is willing to supply? Or does it happen for other reasons, regardless of how hard I'm riding? Looking at my logs, sometimes I don't see it for many minutes after I start riding, but once it appears, it keeps appearing every one minute until I stop riding... And yes, it does appear more often at lower SoC, but there does not seem to be some "magic" threshold (e.g., I sometimes see it above 80%, sometimes I do not see it below 80%).

Also, the "limit" is not always progressively lower as the SoC gets lower - sometimes I get 97% of max current at 60% SoC (so only 3% reduction in current), sometimes I get a bigger reduction even at higher SoC... And at lower speeds the reduction is not necessarily smaller: at 2000 RPM I might see 77% while at 4000 RPM 87% (i.e., I got 23% reduction in power at low RPM vs. only 13% at high RPM); and sometimes it's the other way around more reduction at higher RPM than at lower. Seems kind of random, probably is taking into account temperatures, cell balance, etc., but I can't tell a pattern related to MinCell voltage for example (and the log does not seem to list cell balance)...

Does anyone know if there are drag reducing springs available for the Zero front brakes? I have a set installed on my car and they do a good job keeping the brake pads away from the rotors when the brakes are not used. I'd like to install something like that on my SR as the front brakes are ever so slightly dragging ...

Something like these, but made for the size of motorcycle brakes:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B5PII1M/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s02?ie=UTF8&psc=1

A nice video of a pro race for Alta. Looks good to me

My daughter backed our car into my SR's front tire, tipping it over on its right side. Front brake lever is bent forward in a J shape (still works). It will need to be replaced, though it seems just fine to operate with two fingers. The right foot peg was stuck up, but when I pushed it, it came right back down and seems fine. The foot brake lever was apparently pushed inwards when the bike fell over it and it scratched the frame next to where its tip is - seems fine otherwise. The plastic handlebar end cap is smashed in and deformed, will need to be replaced. The edge of the  white plastic at the end of the  throttle is chipped, but the throttle seems to rotate fine. There is a barely visible scuff on the bottom outside edge of the plastic covering the battery. And the mirror housing is scratched some. I did not see any other damages.

So looks like a new brake lever and a new end cap is what I need...

Darn it! I'm still mad at my daughter for not looking back - the car's got a backup camera and the bike should have been clearly visible in the side mirror too...   

Any thoughts - should I get OEM brake lever or use the opportunity to replace with something else?

When charging at say 80F ambient temperature, how warm or hot does your charger get after a couple of hours? Barely warm to the touch, pretty warm, hot, burning hot, no change at all?

The plastic cover on mine seems to get fairly warm, if I had to guess, 110F or so. And because it is under the battery, the area of the battery cover, and I would imagine the battery inside, would vet warm too. And we know that charging a battery that is too hot is not good for it in the long term, and if the battery temp. sensors are on top of it, they would not sense that the boom is hot and the BMS/charger won't protect it if it does get too hot...

When I'm home I setup a room fan next to the bike, so that does not happen - it gets cooled while charging. But when I charge at work during the day, there is no fan there, and the air is warmer there vs. the coolness of my house's garage at night.

Well, while the front wheel did technically come off the ground, I probably should not call it a "wheelie"

While I am one of these people who are happy that the SR can't wheelie unintentionally, dropping me on my back, I also want to have a bit more fun on occasion. In Sport mode, when going over large speed bumps, I found I can twist the throttle and use the push from the bump to lift the front wheel a little in the air. So that's my first wheelie

I also managed for a first time today, not intentionally, to break traction on a dry road with the rear wheel while doing hard acceleration after a turn. Was not scary at all, since I was almost straight-up and the tail did not do anything too extreme - just a quick letting me know that traction was past its limit...

I'm seriously thinking of taking some sort of motorcycle class where they teach technique and in particular how to handle the bike at and past the limit, so I can get a feel for where the limit is in a safe environment ... Maybe I'll need to add some crash protection to the bike before I do that though...