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I'm a geek, a gamer, a dad, a Quic user, and an IT Professional. I have a full rack home lab, size 15 feet, an epic beard and Asperger's. I'm a bit of a Cypherpunk, who believes information wants to be free and the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. If you use my Quic signup you can also use the code R570394EKGIZ8 for free setup.
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I'm a geek, a gamer, a dad, a Quic user, and an IT Professional. I have a full rack home lab, size 15 feet, an epic beard and Asperger's. I'm a bit of a Cypherpunk, who believes information wants to be free and the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. If you use my Quic signup you can also use the code R570394EKGIZ8 for free setup.
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CYaBro: Never ridden a motorcycle in my life.
If I do ever own one it would have to be electric.
A guy was charging an Energica next to me at Bombay yesterday.
Mother in law’s friend is moving down south and bought a new bike in Oamaru.
It’s being stored in our garage until she moves down.
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2018 Triumph Bonneville,Speedmaster. 1200cc parallel twin. Lovely bike - very comfortable with plenty of pull mine has mids rather than forward controls
I've had a Kawazaki Z650 since 2021 which I use fot commuting and the occasional fun ride. I've clocked 25k on it since new.
I've only done tail tidy and added a dual dashcam set up that records in a loop (front and back) and I could publish my very own home movie of NZ roads' best a-holes...
I've also added a wireless charger/phone holder from Peak Design (highly recommend it despite the high price).
Geek note: The charger was draining the battery (as wireless chargers tend to do) so I had to buy a relay type thing to shut off the 12V feedb based on a ignition switched 9V feed I found lying around in the bike (wasn't keen on cutting any existing wire)
I think I'm done with the mods, I love it as it is..
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Hi - I've owned various motorbikes over the years - road bikes & trials bikes mostly (I regret selling a Yamaha SR 500 single cylinder to fund an OE trip). I kept a street-legal trials bike (Honda TLM200) in the garage for years but didn't use it much. I sold it and bought an Italian 50cc step-thru scooter and it got a huge amount of use from it all around Wellington. Once I got into the mind-set of a slow ride it all made sense - free parking all over town and quick through traffic jams. These days it's becoming difficult to find parking space as there are so many motorbikes/scooters being ridden around Welly). Great to have room under the seat to leave my riding gear, etc.
I decided to swap the noisey, smokey two-stroke engine for something electric. If I had the knowledge/skill/time I would have loved to have converted the Aprilia to electric but instead I bought a Chinese Super Soco TC electric bike. It's rated as a mo-ped, so 50kmh max speed and the range is just under 60km on a full battery. There is room to fit a second battery but I'm OK with the distance and prefer the storage space. Great machine for commuting & errands around town - I've done almost 3,000km now.
The earlier versions of these bikes had a hack that allowed the rider (if you knew the slightly-secret process) to bypass the software restriction and allow speeds up to 60 kmh - 65 kmh. I know - not exactly a racing machine but a handy upgrade in speed. Unfortunately from the 2022 models of Super Socos they dropped the ability to hack them (AFAIK).
So far the only mods I've done are to fit an Aliexpress luggage rack behind the seat, plastic caps to the foot pegs (they are bare metal tubes that scrape shins very well) and I've stuck an old waterproof digital watch to the centre of the handlebars cos' there's no clock function on the all-digital speedo/battery status display.
It's so good to be able to charge it in the garage and not bother with service station visits (plus occasional 2 stroke oil top-ups) and no more annoying the neighbours when leaving early/arriving late - riding in total silence is kind of weird, but enjoyable.
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