My thoughts reading this article:

Let me clarify: The only reason I’ve ever heard people say they like the jiffy stand is that on downhill grades, your kickstand won’t pop out if it rolls forward. But despite living in a city whose streets are universally uphill or down, I’ve never once had an issue with that (I either avoid parking downhill…

Which is funny to me, because I would unapologetically put Yamaha above Honda, myself. Honda’s are superficially top notch, but once you get under their skin, you realize that a lot of engineering components that were afterthoughts. Kawasaki and Suzuki are tied for a more distant third place, as while both do have…

British Columbia. You can take them in to a recycling/metal depot, but they’re worth $0, you just hand them off and walk away.

Oh I’m aware of what they are, but that’s not an issue I’ve ever once had on any of my bikes (I simply don’t park in such a way that they will roll forwards), and I’d much rather take an extra two seconds to park a certain way than to have a kickstand that can buck back out of position if you just push it to the…

I don’t have a particularly high opinion of HD build quality in the first place, and yet, they’re routinely reviewed well. I did go in to the LiveWire with an open mind however, because I figured it was more Alta’s design, just with HD badges chucked over top. I wouldn’t say Zero blows it out of the water or anything,…

I ride literally every single day, and at the moment work in the industry.

Having ridden both bikes, I would never dream of calling the LiveWire “well polished”. I’m not saying Zero is on Yamaha/Honda levels of build quality, but I’d 100% say it’s got the LiveWire beat.

Kinda sounds like how Godot’s engine works, or how Blender functions: A bunch of nodes, all referencing each other.

Agreed. In a perfect world, there’d be a toggle to disable, like what my G510 has for the Windows Key. Alternatively, I’d sincerely consider just opening it up and killing the connection in a more permanent manner. I will never want to share anything, I’m OK losing that function forever.

I starred, though I should note it would take all of a few minutes to change the bots to have a couple-second delay, completely wasting the effort.

Agreed big time. Making it seem like a long range touring bike has been intentionally dishonest (And it’s something I’ve called Zero out for repeatedly on the SR/S as well). You’re setting your own clients up for failure.

*Looks at my Linux and Windows 7 PC*

Yes, build quality and polish, something Harley is renowned for - checks notes - doing horribly at. Probably why the LiveWire already had multiple high-value recalls in its first year.

Which is almost assuredly due to the psychological phenomenon of “more expensive must mean more better”. https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/sc/why-we-like-expensive-things-2018-12

Price remains the biggest flaw on this thing. I have absolutely no reason to spend $10,000CAD more on this than I do the Zero SR/F, which already beats it in most metrics.

I remember watching a Youtube fellow that had a CBR600 set up for offroad duty. Always thought that sounded amazingly dangerous and fun.

Wouldn’t want the turbo CBs (Motorcycles remain one of the few bastions where turbos haven’t infected the entire market), but those six cylinders are amazing, we had one at BCIT.

As mentioned in the article, it isn’t that dealer’s brand. Yes, when I worked at Ford I could just plug the VIN in to the inventory database and it would pull the exact window sticker (Or at least, it usually would). If I got in anything other than a Ford, Lincoln or Mercury though, I wasn’t getting anything. At that…

And yet, the Jalop crowd remains entirely worthless for sales. I worked car sales for years. The crowd that knows the minutae of vehicles are tiny in the first place, and utterly pointless to cater to.