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Had a minor accident on my Experia and tagged the rear end of a small truck, I didn't even fall off the bike!! Bike was still rideable. Damage to front fairings, smashed parking light assembly and several other small parts in behind the fairings etc......New Bormio Ice coloured fairings are apparently not available from Energica, so unfortunately my bike will be sitting indefinitely untill they become available..

Smithy.

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I need to change the drive chain, and I am wondering about the specs. This is for a Ribelle and an SS9 (but they both use the same chain as far as I know).

It is a Regina 525 o-ring chain, but how many links ?

I can tell you the Experia is a 520 chain with 120 links....don't know about the Ribelle or SS9 sorry.

Can you not just count the links..?? That's all I did.

Smithy.

The problem in my neck of the woods is lack of charging infrastructure.  Many I ride with would buy an Energica for the performance thrill, but there is just too few places to charge.

These are folks with several bikes in the stable, and with means to buy more, but they will pick up an RSV4 Factory because they can actually ride it all day long.

If there was a fastcharger at every gas station, sales would skyrocket.

My Rebelle is a stand alone mission specific machine for a daily 70 mile spirited recreational loop.  I love it.  But the limit of use is the lack of charging availability.

Exactly this...I have the same issue, no fast charging stations accessible withing normal riding distance from my home, there are a couple close by but they're not much use when I want to travel outside of my local area. I mainly use my Experia to commute to work...kind of a waste really as it makes an ideal touring machine if I could charge somewhere whilst travelling from one city to another. We have vast distances between towns let alone cities.

Smithy.

Quote from: smithy on March 19, 2024, 01:40:20 AM

If the corner is a bit tighter than a normal "cruising curve", the tyres will be on a slightly smaller diameter the further leaned over you are....I'd equate it to a race bike's rpm raising slightly as it leans into and around a corner assuming it is doing the the "same speed", as the bike returns to "upright" the rpm will come back slightly to it's original rpm due to the diameter of the tyre.....assuming the speed doesn't change of course.

Smithy.

This is it IMO. Happens on my Aprilia too.

I notice it only very slightly on my Experia, it has an rpm readout and it varies as you lean over when rounding a corner even though you haven't necessarily changed speed...but not when the cruise control is on. Trouble with our Energicas is the fact that the speedo is taken from the motor rpm.

The Experia has a 6 axis IMU too.... so maybe it's tied into the system somehow..??

Smithy.

The rubber tether holds the edges of the phone and pulls it against the x mount.  Secure, but the vibration issue still persists. 

I plan to move to the quadlock system on my bikes.  Better design. 

They also have a wireless charging system available so you can have vibration attenuation, wireless charging, and secure worry free mounting all in one.

Have the Quadlock "wireless charging" setup on my Experia...and all my other bikes too...it's nothing but brilliant IMHO.

Smithy.

Thanks for the write up.  I have the same feeling about that horrendous stock seat.  How is the Corbin for standover compared to the factory seat?  I'm about your height but longer in the torso, so I cannot quite flat foot the bike stock in regular shoes, making it a bit of a handful parking.

The Corbin seat will have you sitting quite a bit taller than the stock OEM seat...I fear you may be worse off with the Corbin height wise....but it is a lot more "comfortable". I can just flat foot it with the Corbin but if your legs are a tad short, you'll struggle.

Smithy.

Excellent write-up Sir..

Smithy.

Hi All,

This is a fairly long post so please bear with me.

My Experia has just passed 20,000km this morning during my daily commute to work. I thought I'd put together a few thoughts on how it's going and my "long term" experience with the bike over the 13 months I have owned it.

I picked my Experia up from my dealer on the 17th of Feb 2023, VIN #029. It was the very first Experia to touch Australian soil. It had a grand total of 0.8km on it at the time and I rode it the ~150km from my dealer on the Gold Coast Queensland to my home north of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia, pretty much an uneventful ride, mostly 100kmh motorway. I was instantly impressed with how "smooth" the bike was compared to my BMW S1000XR, no vibrations at all...a revelation indeed. I felt the suspension was a little firm for my liking but since the bike was setup with stock settings I felt I'd "have a fiddle" with it after arriving home etc...

After a few weeks of riding the Experia and after "adjusting" the suspension to suit my weight and riding requirements, I'm 180cm tall & 75kg... I found the Experia very comforatable to ride and the suspension was plush and forgiving, the front springs are still a little firm for my liking but it works very well, notwithstanding the horrible stock seat which I never got along with...it felt as though I was sitting astride a log....it was very firm and uncomfortable for my skinny, boney ar$e. I looked around for an alternate seat but nothing was available for such a newly released motorcylce...This is where Rob Swartz from Energica of New England and Mike Corbin came to the rescue. I contacted Rob and he immediately set about organising for me to get the very first "customer" Corbin seat for the Experia....after a few minor niggles the "heated" seat was delivered to me in Australia less than 6 weeks after my initial contact...not bad considering the seat had not even been made when I had ordered one. Fit and quality are perfect and I find it much more comfortable than the OEM seat. Rob Swartz & Mike Corbin contacted me personally and kept in contact via email during the whole process....damn good customer service IMHO. 11 months later the seat is still giving me the perfect ride....firm but comfortable due to the custom contour advised by Mike Corbin.

Perfomance of the bike is outstanding considering it only has ~100hp, torque from a standstill is exceptional and it will out accelerate most bikes up to ~100kmh....you need a pretty handy liter bike to out accelerate it up to ~100kmh....certainly gives my "tuned" BMW S1000XR a damn good run for it's money....after that though, the BMW is gone.

I must admit I had a few issues with the "keyless" ignition system and was plagued with continuous "key not in range" faults during the first few months of ownership....it had me regretting getting the keyless option. After consultation with my dealer and through Energica, a new keyless module, sensor and FOB was delivered to my home straight from Energica....I'm pretty handy with the tools so fitting it was a no-brainer and my dealer principal Tobin Page from AEMC on the Gold Coast in Australia came to my house, a 300km round trip for him I might add, great service... and he did the .043 firmware update for me....no more issues and the bike has been faultless since.

I wasn't a fan of the Pirelli Scorpion-II tyres which came with the bike, it left me lacking confidence in corners... and I have now fitted a pair of Continental Road Attack-3 tyres....much more confidence inspring and I can now easily get to the edge of the tyre without worrying if it would let go on me. The Pirelli's would give me the occaisional hint that they we coming unstuck at generous lean angles and would often let go under even moderate acceleration throwing up the T/C light on the dash...no such thing is happening with the Conti's fitted, they're a great match for the bike.

I use the bike to mostly commute to work, 55km each way, and find I get a decent amount of range considering ~90% of my commute is 100kmh motorway...I can get to work and back twice and back to work on the 3rd day...so ~275km before I need to re-charge at my work...not bad to be totally honest. I also use the bike for the occasional weekend blast to my favorite riding and friends meeting place, it's ideal for that too. I don't have any CCS charging stations near where I live so I can't comment on how the local CCS charging infrastructure works.

Servicing of the Experia is a doddle, they only have 50ml of oil and no filter, so an oil change takes all of 15 minutes...which includes a nice cup of tea and a couple of biscuits. Chain, sprocket and brake maintenance is essentially the same as any other motorcycle...no issues there. I have fitted a new chain and sprockets at 12,700km as I found a couple of "tight links" in the original Regina chain, (I'm not a fan of Regina chains), I fitted new sprockets and a DID ZVMX 520 chain and it has been issue free since fitting. I went up 1 tooth on the front from 15t to 16t to get the speedo reading correctly, it's now within +/-1kmh now, so I'm well chuffed. Front sprocket is a 520 Aprillia Tuono item and the 520 52t aluminium rear sprocket is a Vortex item.

All in all I'm quite happy with my purchase of the Experia and my dealer has been very open and helpful...no complaints from me on that front....I'm still waiting for a center stand to turn up like many others...but I'm sure it will eventually turn up.

Thanks for reading and I'm happy to answer any questions if there are any.

Smithy.