Recent content by Manzanita

This is a Zero S 11.4 model (54 horsepower) with the power tank upgrade = 14.4 Kwh battery capacity (similar to new Zero SR without power tank). About 20k miles on the odometer. Runs perfectly. Just had the main controller and ignition switch replaced by the dealer ($1000). Price: $7000 Layed...

Asking price $8800 (KBB is $10,375 without the power tank) Miles: 11,095 Title: clean, due in April Accidents: dropped at 0 mph twice, but never crashed. Location: Woodland, Ca. (near Davis/Sacramento) This is a Zero S ZF 11.4 model with the power tank upgrade, giving it a true range of about...

~48k miles, but runs perfect. Fuel-injected I-4 with 100HP, tuned for low-end torque. Clean title, registered to July 2017. Has a number of bumps and scratches. I spent the past year or so trying to tweak the suspension and the handlebar positioning. In the last year or so I have done the...

This has had about 2k miles and 1 beginners group trackday. I can post photos if anyone is interested. I am in Woodside (on Skyline north of Alices) and work in Redwood city near 101 and Woodside Rd. This is a great wet weather, long-wearing tire. It gave me no issues for my trackday...

I've been through the MSF course and have been riding about 6 years (~50,000 miles). My girlfriend wants to learn how to ride, so we've gone to an empty parking lot twice, and she is not getting beyond 1-2 mph where she 'walks' the bike. There seems to be nothing I can tell her that will...

So on my 2014 Zero S, the braking is just super touchy. I think my Honda 919 will stop as quickly but they can be modulated. I thought this was a minor issue until I went into a corner a little too fast on the Zero and pulled the brakes a little too hard... the brakes grabbed hard and the bike...

So I made an impulse buy: an Ohlin shock that will fit my bike *if* I cut the top aluminum spacer. Stock is 28mm wide, the Ohlin is 32mm wide. Yes, the shock is the right length, right spring rate, made for a direct linkage like my 919. And yes, I bought it knowing that the top spacer would have...

Bought it in April, installed it, rode on it for 1 week (~ 400 easy miles on the street). I replaced it with a rounder profile Michelin pilot road 4 because these Pirelli's have a pointy profile and turn-in quicker. Good for some bikes/riders, but not for me/my bike. Bought it for $98, selling...

So I have not noticed any change in performance, but both my front and rear tires (after 1 novice trackday and about 1.5k miles) are ridging up on the trailing edge of the side grooves. The ridges are only about 1mm above the tire surface and are on both sides equally but not on the center. I...

I have a 1984 Honda VT500FT Ascot with 22k miles. It had low compression in the front cylinder, was overheating, had some oil in the radiator fluid and was leaking oil out the cylinder head gasket. So I replaced the head gasket. To make a long story short, I eventually got everything together...

Can you feel whether a tire is sticky if you never reach it's limit? I'm sure a racer can jump on bikes with different tires and tell the difference going fast on a track, but if you never push a tire that hard, can you feel a difference in grip between them? I was on Skyline in Oakland on...