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The Ducatis have traction control. The Energicas did not. The races are approximately 20 miles -- six to eight laps. They have two races on Saturday, qualifying on Friday. There's no siting or tire warmup laps - they pull off the tire warmers and race. It's very close racing because they are using the same bike. I like it because it's a riders class.

I went to the MotoAmerica race at The Ridge (Shelton Washington, USA) last summer and watched the lone Energica in the Hooligan class beat most of the ICE bikes. What a kick!

I'm onboard in Lynnwood Washington.

His road rash and broken hand was a pretty good reminder.

You left out Miasma ...

My vastly experienced friend decided to not listen to my instructions, put my 2019 Black Zero SR into Sport mode and pin the throttle in wet conditions, launching himself to the moon. I have some free, scraped bodywork to anyone who wants to pay for the shipping. The 'tank' and right front body panel are candidates for repair or wrapping.

No batteries with my installed solar. The return on investment with the solar panels is way down the road; with batteries doubling the install cost it makes even less financial sense. We rarely lose power and I too have a generator to keep the freezers running (via extension cords rather than through the house wiring). You have to be real careful about not feeding power back into the grid when the line workers are repairing downed lines during an outage. I didn't have the grid cutoff installed when they put in our solar panels.

I like the idea of batteries - particularly free ones. I can relate to free: I have nearly infinite free wood for our wood stove to heat the house.

Our PUD pays the same rate to us for uploaded power as we pay for grid power. I wish we had a bit more sun in Seattle! This time of the year we only get about 10% of our power from solar.

There are quite a few Rivians near me. I've also seen a couple of Lucids. The reality is most pickups around here are just used to take the kids to school and squash a few motorcyclists.

Perhaps it makes more financial sense to ship to an East Coast port (Scab probably) and truck to the West coast. It's a long trip through the Panama canal to the West coast ports.