So there's been some arguing on a couple threads I read this morning and even one that had some guy think that electric vehicles create more pollution somewhere else (sigh), and I figured it was time to lighten the mood.
I started a social media series with a bunch of pictures of different mostly female riders and their stories on various 2015 and 2016 Zero Motorcycles. I got the idea from a successful social media series called Humans of New York which has almost 20 million followers on FB and over 5 million on Instagram.
Over the years I have had mostly everyone interested and open to learning about my electric motorcycle. However, even in some riding groups, a biker will be staring at my bike, and I'll ask "Do you know about Zero Motorcycles? They are all electric. Want to hear about it?" and I'll get the "Nah bruh, I don't care about no stinking battery bike"
So I created a tool to get through to those riders, and break the ice to getting them open to the idea of electric motorcycles. I'll share it here, each of you can follow it if you use social media, and if you ever find yourself in the above situation try this:
(Leather vest biker staring at you)
"This is a Zero Motorcycle. Do you follow the page with all the girls riding Zero's?"
I'll bet 99% of the time, you now have his attention. Hit your social media, scroll through some pics, and now you can explain about your bike and he will listen. Will he run out and buy one that day? Probably not. But you've opened his mind and that's what we all need to be doing.
I live in Santa Cruz and am up near San Francisco a lot, but there are a lot of female riders in my area. And probably because its the Bay area, it seems more than half of these female riders, have girlfriends instead of boyfriends. In just the last week (the page is only 3 weeks old) I've used this page to break the ice with the ladies and they love the page and want to see all the pics and want to learn more about Zero. Try it!
The page is called InstaGirlsonZeros. Check it out and read the stories about each rider, soon to be rider, or hopefully one day rider, but passenger for now. Each has a unique story. I think all of you are going to like how this goes and be able to use it as a talking tool in some cases.
Oh, something I didn't think was going to happen. One of the girls I featured 3 weeks ago and invited to the Hollywood Electrics monthly ride (Maria), ended up buying a Zero FXS last week! This was an added bonus I didn't originally consider!! Lets see if it can happen again.
Links:
follow both of course. If you don't have a facebook or Instagram yet, maybe now is the time to start one!
www.facebook.com/InstaGirlsonZeroswww.instagram.com/InstaGirlsonZeros