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feeling good, not bad
Bought a Zero SR from a guy in Santa Cruz and rode it home last Friday.
The next Tuesday I crashed on my way to DMV to do the registration.
It appears the bike has been stolen. If I got it back it would need probably new forks, handlebars, left handlebar electronics, console, headlight, and fairing-tank plastics.
EDIT: Just to be thorough and for possible identification of the missing bike, it is a
2016 Zero SR ZF 13.0
"Red" (but the red plastics are most likely gone)
License Plate: 22E7992 (CA)
VIN: 538SM9Z37GCG06655
It has been reported as stolen
Alright I made it. 2016 Zero SR ZF 13.0, 72 miles in 1:32, average 47.5 mi/hr. I started at 99% battery and arrived at 10%. Mostly highway miles. Eco mode. I'm surprised how slow the average speed was. It didn't feel that slow.
Going over the mountain on HWY17 was a little nerve wracking because I could see the battery capacity dropping going up the hill. By the time I got to the top I was at 69%. Regen on the way down brought me up to 70%. I came across a logging truck full of logs and tucked in behind it until around San Jose. The battery stayed at 70% for a long time. I was lucky to find that truck because the wind felt pretty strong. I have never noticed wind so much before, except when riding a bicycle back in the day. I'm not sure if there was a headwind or if I was just noticing it more because wind noise was the only noise. But it felt like there was a lot of wind. Maybe also because the bike is lighter. So it was nice to have that truck even getting pelted with bits of Redwood bark. The truck turned off at I think 238 interchange and I went in the wind myself for a while. By the time I got to Fremont I was at 50%. I timries getting behind an SUV but it didn't provide much wind shelter so I abandoned that, and soon after I was able to catch a ride behind a FedEx truck all the way to Hayward , at which point I was at 40%. I was out in the wind from there on. By the time I got to downtown Oakland I was at 20% so I kicked it into sport mode but as someome mentioned, it cuts the power when the battery is low. But still the torque felt great. The next few miles through the city brought me down to 10% and it was done.
The next Tuesday I crashed on my way to DMV to do the registration.
This is about the Zero SR ZF 13.0 that I bought last week and drove back to Oakland from Santa Cruz. I only rode it three times.
Well, I crashed it yesterday on the way to the DMV to transfer the registration. yup, after 5 days of owning it. A guy in a white pickup truck stopped at an intersection bafflingly went ahead and took a left turn right in front of me. What is it with white pickup trucks? I put on the brakes hard but still hit him at about 20mph or so. I'm not sure exactly what happened at that point. I remember being on the ground and getting up a little disoriented. The police report puts him at fault, so that's the first good thing. As for the bike, the front-end took a hit. The headlight and front fairing/"tank" is busted and the left side of the handlebar broke clean off. The instrument console got knocked off its mount and the display was not working when I tried ti turn it on. I don't have any photos because my phone got smashed.
Fortunately I seem to have only broken my right pinky finger. I cannot straighten it, even with the splint. They might need to do surgery. But considering basically a head-on collision that was not bad. I was able to walk a few miles home from the hospital.
Right after the accident I was able to pick up the bike and put it on the kickstand but it wouldn't roll as there was a big piece of something lodged in the front wheel spokes. It was a piece of the truck's bumper or sideboard. A police officer let me use a phone to call AAA and get a tow while I was lying in the ambulance. I tried to get them to tow it to Moto Guild but it was closed and apparently they can't tow to a place with nobody there. I didn't find that out till I was discharged from the hospital. By that time AAA did not have any motorcycle towing equipment available, so I got a ride down to the bike and put a cable lock on it with a note to please not move it.
And guess what happens next...I came back the next morning and it was gone. A local driving by said the police came to tow it, but when I inquired with the police they have no record of a tow. So I think it was stolen.
The irony is that I was on my way to the DMV to get the registration transferred into my name. Luckily I had added the bike to my insurance policy the night before.
Here's a photo of it from a few days ago.
I'd imagine post-accident motorcycle theft is pretty common. How does that work in terms of insurance and stuff?
It appears the bike has been stolen. If I got it back it would need probably new forks, handlebars, left handlebar electronics, console, headlight, and fairing-tank plastics.
EDIT: Just to be thorough and for possible identification of the missing bike, it is a
2016 Zero SR ZF 13.0
"Red" (but the red plastics are most likely gone)
License Plate: 22E7992 (CA)
VIN: 538SM9Z37GCG06655
It has been reported as stolen
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