Hey Zeus!

WTF is going on peeps? I know it is early in the season and we are all a little rusty (as last week in Wales showed only too well  ) but two in one week...

Really glad you are all OK and I am sure you were ready for a new bike anyway Rae but I imagine Glen is feeling as bad as it gets.

Quote from: Phmode on April 27, 2024, 03:14:22 pm

It was, of course, a sweeping statement and all sweeping statements are false. Most of the time 

I think the behaviour you had described is "kind of" us bikers' behaviour : ride with traffic's flow, but if the opportunity presents itself, overtake the row in the blink of an eye. Bikes do it on 2 wheels, EV's do it on 4.

Er, no Phillipe. I have yet to see an ev being driven anything like 'we' bikers do, ie, overtaking anything on non-motorway type roads. My complaint is they use their acceleration to baulk following cars from overtaking on the few straights we have around here but then don't do anything about overtaking themselves. Not all ev drivers of course, just some of them.

And of course, most ev drivers are more interested in the so-called free power or are early adopters but even lowly ev's have quite startling acceleration from low speed, a basic function of the electric motor.

From conversations with other riders, most are not remotely sporty car drivers. I and apparently Andy, are the only two I know of who drive the same way they ride. I realise that, by definition, this forum is populated by those who appreciate and mostly use, the 'sports' bit of the sports-tourer tag of the K but unless you are a weekend warrior I doubt most of us ever see many really fast bikes out there. Over four days in mid- and north Wales this week, there were plenty of bikes out there but most were admiring the view or making a little progress at best. And that's OK. I never moan about slower riders because even in the car they pose no problems to me making progress.

It's those damned ev's that wind me up...

...and 'hella accelerating' too. On the bike this isn't a problem, but I am noticing more and more a 'my rate of change of speed is greater than yours' mentality of ev drivers when trying to overtake them in the car.

They are not driving fast because, well, no one else does, but they hate being overtaken so they out braaap you (without the braaap bit) when there is an overtake opportunity but then slow down again when there isn't.

People with exceedingly rapid cars who could behave in this way never do because a) with great power comes great responsibility and b) they never drive fast anyway.

As the guy said, the amount of decelleration depends on which of the regenerative modes you have selected. Mode 1 and 2 being virtually unnoticeable but 4 being the dodgy one.

As for a recall, it may be an over the air update but it needs a recall notice to make peeps aware of the need.

As with everything about ev's, almost no one knows exactly how their's works.

Nice vid Matt. We should explain a few things here...

This was the first time either of us had tried to make our drones follow us apart from Matt running up a slope by the (recently vandalised and inoperative) phone box and me judging whether it was actually ascending as he did.

My drone will follow up to about 36 mph I believe but I can't run that fast.

The terrain on that stretch of the Abergwesyn to Tregaron coach road was 'interesting' to say the least and when Matt set off I was laying bricks in case it followed him straight into the hillside. Or took out the power lines...if we had thought it through I would have followed behind to watch what the thing was doing and where it ended up if it all turned to shite. Which it didn't.

Matt's drone doesn't have the best of camera systems but until he gets a real job it will have to do

...where I doubt you'll come across any new/reverted/disputed/confusing/frustrating 20mph equivalent zones you lucky, lucky tykes!

MyRoute App was spot on with most of them but some had obviously slipped through the net. None of them were being policed...or obeyed by anyone other than us.

I get wet from sweat know matter whose gear I wear. I sweat in the night and sleep with towels on top of my very expensive linen sheets. Gore Tex doesn't work for those of who sweat heavily no matter what the weather or climate. The secret to keeping warm is staying cool.

I wear almost nothing but Gore Tex because all the alternatives are less effective. My BMW Savannah Gore Tex suit liner is about 20 years old and is still waterproof and keeps me somewhat sweat-wet free.

Value for money is/was (when I bought it) beyond comparison.