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21,468 miles. Single owner. Title in hand.

Does not charge. I am pretty sure it is just the well-known wiring harness issue as it happened after I got a new job and started level II charging at work, but I tried hard-wiring around the offending harness and it still would not charge. Could be that I'm not a mechanic and the bike doesn't like my bodged fix, or it could be something else is more broken. None of the local shops will touch it. I replaced it with a Zero and now I just want the space in my garage back.

It stopped charging in April 2018, and the bike has been sitting ever since. I limped it home from work, and parked it with ~25% SOC. It does turn on. I am confident it would move if you wanted to ride it. That said, it shows 0% SOC, and the battery is likely far out of balance.

Front tire has very few miles, as do the chain and sprockets. I have a second set of new, never installed, sprockets that will go with the bike. One of the fairing bolts is cross-threaded in the frame, and one of the front turn signals has a broken outer lens (from me being careless in the garage). I did tip it over once in a parking lot when I lost my footing getting on, otherwise it has never been down. The front fender has holes where I had extra LED lights mounted (they have been transferred to the Zero). Also has heated grips installed.

I bought the bike to ride, and I did in almost all weather conditions for ~10 mo/year in Chicagoland. It's dirty and well loved. I am disappointed I didn't get more use out of it.

Local pickup only. The bike is somewhat taken apart, and I assume anyone interested would prefer it that way for inspection, etc.

I'm not on the forum very often. E-mail is best:
sean dot seamon at gmail dot com

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The Senior TT, which was shortened to 4 laps this year,

The electrics are about the speed now of the lightweights, that is the non-race prepped 650cc bikes. Which is pretty good. Its expected in the next couple of years that they'll start to catch up with the Superstocks, and then you might start people paying more attention to the Zero Challange.

FWIW, the lightweights are most certainly race prepped to the gills, which is why they had so many mechanical failures. They're putting out almost twice as much horse power as my old SV650, and more power than a stock 600cc four. The EV's are definitely in good company where they finished this year.

I know it's great for me as an Empulse owner, but I was really hoping for Brammo to lead the way rather than get sucked into a bureaucracy. It'll be interesting to see where this goes.

FWIW, I turn my parking lights on about an hour before I go home from work, and I end up with between 5% and 10% less SOC on my Brammo than what it had when I parked it in the morning. I only do this when it below 50 f because turning the parking lights on also turn on the heating elements between the cells. I also assume the BMS lowers the SOC readout thanks to the drop in voltage from the cold-soaked cells. So there's likely more than just the light drawing power when your parking light is on.

If I don't turn on the lights to warm up the battery, I have trouble getting up to highway speeds, and the bike throws lots of errors - and it's worse the colder it gets. I ride down to 10 f, but as long as I warm it up, there's no problem.

Good topic!

If I were to ever leave my current job, I would probably look at doing the e-dealership thing. I've been thinking about this a lot lately...

I think it's important to note the difference between a dealership that customers like, and one that can stay in business. If I were to do something right now, I'd be focusing mostly on fleet sales - private security and police forces. I wouldn't be afraid of selling to a consumer, but I can't see how the economics makes sense focusing on consumers now. There is only one other electric bike I know of within 300 miles of me. That is not a market that can sustain a business! The question for me is when does the tide switch, and who is going to still be making bikes when it does? And when will the current ICE manufactures figure it out and will they be able to convert their existing dealers? (That might not matter because it seems all the local ICE dealers are also going out of business...)

Harlen has a lot of advantages being in LA. I don't think his model works many other places right now. There just isn't enough demand for two Hollywoods. Being an EE is great for the first adopters, and for creating any custom accessory add-ons, but that advantage isn't going to last long. Then he'll just be relying on the brand he's developed and customer service like any other retail outlet. That'll be good for years to come, it sounds like. I'd be lieing if I didn't say I was jealous.

FYI, according to Ted Dillard, LiveWire demo rides are invite only. Might shoot Ted an email to see if he can get you on the list.

http://evmc2.wordpress.com/2014/06/21/hd-project-livewire-experience-tour-rides-are-invite-only/

I'm trying to work it through the dealer I bought my Brammo through (Suburban Harley). They are a large HD dealer in the Milwaukee area. Unfortunately they are doing their demos on Thursday, but I can't make it until Sunday.