Oh cool! I’ll have to check that out. Thanks for recommending

Love the lyrics, discordance and that melody that enters halfway thru - it kinda rambles along and then hops up. The video is neat too.

Europe has had micro cars before though, no? The original Fiat 500 and Mini Coopers or even the Vespa Ape. Made sense for the tiny city roads. But yeah, I guess all those micro cars were replaced with newer, bigger models.

Get your new music from somewhere better tho, like community radio. Found so many new and local artists recently from doing this. And it’s great because you find out about upcoming gigs that are usually cheap coz the acts are small.

Do they have better energy density than current tech?
Edit: googled it. Yes. Around twice as energy dense as Li-ion.

Yeahh god damn that’s frustrating.

The reason for this where I’m from is that any road going vehicle has to meet a bunch of design criteria and go through a number of tests to be signed of as road legal by the state. These are strict and quite expensive so all the grey-area Emotos just dont do them and pass the risk onto the buyer by having a disclaimer “only for use on private property” or something. You may be able to get it road legalised with the help of an accredited engineer, but you’d be footing the bill…

Liquid cooled electric motors are pretty common - but yeah a different thing to just pouring water onto it 😂

Ah. Good question. Prior to this I’ve ridden a few DIY bikes and the Stealth Bomber, which is one those “mountain bikes” that’s actually a motorcycle. I didn’t love those, but this is the first commercial, production Emoto I’ve ridden.
I’m hoping to try a Zero and a Fonz at some point soon (although Zero just pulled out of the Aus market for the 2nd time… 😅)

Suzuki DR650

"The researchers analysed 686 crashes involving e-scooterists and 35 involving e-cyclists.

The high number of crashes involving e-scooters reflects that they were used much more frequently than e-bicycles. But their crash risk was actually much lower – regardless of whether the risk was calculated on the basis of the number, duration, or distance of the trips.

“When we calculated using trip distance, it turned out that e-cyclists were eight times more likely to have a crash than e-scooterists. It’s a result that surprised us,” says Marco Dozza."

I still don’t like that the amount of data for both groups is so skewed at 686:35.
35 bits of data does not give me a great deal of confidence - tho they mention at the end they do find it to be statistically significant.
I’d also like to know if bicycles were commonly used on longer trips, compared to scooters, and (if so) do scooters used on longer trips encounter a higher risk.

Severity of the crash should also be considered for overall safety.

They start at around $30k AUD, which to me is pretty expensive, but compared to performance petrol bikes (like a Ducati) it’s not so bad, and also impressive considering it’s a small Australian company. I’m very unlikely to get one at current because I’m after something aimed at practical commuting - cheaper, lower specs and less aggressive geometry/ergonomics. BUT I’d say that the bike is very impressive and I’m now a fan of the company.

Brief review. My main concern was the 280kg weight. Over 100kg more than my daily ride. But I actually didn’t find this a problem.
Loved the throttle response. I’ve ridden electric stuff with really bad/jerky throttles and this was perfect.
I did not love the handling however. And maybe thats the weight, but the geometry just didn’t vibe with me. Definitely very different to my DR650 and im sure I could get used to it, but it felt like it was positively steering, not counter steering and that was doing my head in.
And yes. The acceleration in sport mode is nuts. Roller-coaster, gut drop stuff.
Had a lot of fun on the test ride. Team were super friendly and transparent with questions I had.

Price of coffee (and cocoa) is going up everywhere in the world due to climate impacts. Tarrifs are a double whammy for the US tho.

“No timeline was provided for a possible return, with the organisers only stating that “MotoE will be reconsidered should the relevance of electric motorcycles – or any other alternative sustainable technology – increase in the future”."
Ouch…

Yeah, maybe. Was surprising to see, but no one I saw really seemed to care, so yeah, could be legal~

I’d like to add to this thread (coz I rarely see this mentioned.) The rental scooter system encourages shitty riding. I only recently tried it on vacation for convenience and you pay per minute, not distance. And it’s kinda expensive. So users are financially motivated to run risks (speed, cut traffic, run reds etc.) in order to save money. I was pretty horrified to find this out, but it made sense of all the shitty riding I had seen prior.

I visited Europe recently and 90% of the fat bikes I saw there were the illegally high powered kind. So I dont think they have a problem with the tyre size, just that the majority of those bikes are not suited to bike lanes. Unfortunate association.

When I was in Copenhagen there were even petrol scooters using the bike lanes and overtaking cyclists within the lane. Sketchy shit.

Jet Set Radio but bike couriers in NYC would be cool.

My bike (dr650) will do this sometimes if I dont boot it up hard enough. It’ll go into 2nd briefly and then drop back to neutral and I’ll accidentally rev bomb 😅

Other commenter is correct. Just gotta kick it up hard enough. Some bikes are more prone to this than others.

Weird. This was featured as a kind-of plot point in a recent rom-com I saw, Materialists. The character who had it done gave it glowing reviews…