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I waited forever for some parts last year but the dealer had just not called me back to say the parts were in so I dunno whose fault that is (the part did have to come direct from Italy). The last conversation I had with Energica UK left me with the impression the company is still laser focused on getting finished Experias out the door after a stronger than expected order book and more issues ramping up production than expected.

I really hope that's eased up as they didn't announce anything new in 2023 for the first time in several years.

Ribelles are great, what's gonna be a problem for you depends what your use case is. If you just wanna do like 100 or 150 miles on a sunny Saturday afternoon and *maybe* charge once then it's hard to fault. If you wanna tour with it then Energica's (all of them really) achilles heel is thermal management and you'll need to dial back the charge rate a little and make sure to leave enough time between charges for the battery to cool off a bit.

As I heard it (from Transport Evolved) he told the head of the supercharger unit to lay some people off and they refused so he fired the whole department as an example.

MCN ran an article a while back about how great Kawasaki's innovative solution to the volume problem was storing extra hydrogen in the panniers.

What else might I put in my panniers MCN? eh? What ELSE!!?

latest '24 model Ribelle has the charging port angled, towards the low side of the bike while on the side stand, so that was improved. Would they revise the whole setup of the legacy bikes and invest in new tooling for a charge port on a different location?

Oh that's good news, I usually just hold the cable in there until the thing comes up.

I doubt they'd go to that level of effort given that they're not interested in significant developments of the Ego platform going forward.

You know what one of the most common comments I get is?

"I didn't know they made those"

I dunno, I've never been a fan of Plug & Charge. I don't want to have to create an account and download an app just to charge my bike. I wanna rock up to a charger, tap my payment card and plug the bike in and then control the charge using an interface on the charger itself.

Anyone else looking at the state of the market at the moment and feeling like there's nothing exciting happening?

The finance on my Ribelle is up at the end of this year and I'd like to trade it in (something new for me, a great second hand deal for someone else) and while another, newer, Ribelle would be nice it's sort of sad that that's looking like the only option. I'm hoping this year brings some new options to market.

The S2 was a great entry into the market but by the time it came out it felt like it'd been around for years already and it doesn't exactly scratch the same itch (never mind the cost/quality issues with it). Energica have been super focused on Experia production and I'd really hope they'll break out and drop something exciting this year. Zero seem to be trying to weather the financial storms atm, and Kawasaki's lacklustre efforts aside legacy still seems totally uninterested.