Recent content by AbnormalWrench

I was a bit suspicious the premise of this thread was questionable - that higher gearing on an electric motor would lead to higher efficiency. That makes perfect sense on a gas engine, because more load = higher efficiency on a gas engine. That isn't how electric motors tend to work. I haven't...

I don't blame people for doubting me, but here is a screen shot - this is for a year of insurance. 50 y/o, clean record. I said $35, but forgot that was for 9 months when I originally started the insurance.

I don't think there is air in the system, because if that were the case, pushing the caliper pistons in wouldn't do anything - that wouldn't get rid of the air in the system. I think the problem has to do with the brake pads. Something like mud is getting behind the pads, causing them to not...

Glad to see Stark is making things right. Many many companies wouldn't have made this much effort for your situation. Most likely the shop messed up your bike, and that is an unfortunate aspect to their dealership model - there is very little incentive for good shops to support their product...

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this, but it is weird. I didn't have this problem until the rainy season started. I get done riding. I park the bike and everything is working fine. 5 days later I go to load the bike to head out to the ORV park, and my brakes act like they have air in the...

Progressive took a long time to give me a number, but they eventually offered me full coverage for $35 a year. That was pretty close to what I was getting for my Zero FX, which I think was $40 a year. So you might want to check with them - I don't know why they are so cheap, but I'm not complaining!

I'm greedy. 1. 40hp/20% regen 2. 50hp/70% regen 3. 60hp/70% regen 4. 80hp/0% regen 5. 80hp/100% regen 4 and 5 are pretty much just for street riding with street tires, although I do use them now and then when entering and leaving the ORV parking lot, just to show off. 2 and 3 are for trail...

Exactly my conclusion also. If you could change actual throttle mapping, I would have kept it, but without that, it is mostly useless

Not trying to argue, but I've put probably 30K miles on Tu-Bliss setups. Yes, I've had some failures, but they were all my fault. The bladders very rarely need inflating, btw. As long as they are over 70PSI they are fine. The tire needs inflating a lot, depending on model of tire - some leak...

I found I only have "bladder" failures when I reused the bladder when swapping out tires. You also need to make sure you don't over torque the rim lock - that will also take out the bladder.

Hadn't seen that thing before. The Hummer of motorcycles!

The description sounds very similar to the Tu-bliss system, the picture isn't very helpful in figuring out what is going on there. It is only roughly $90 for the Tu-bliss system per tire. I currently have 3 bikes running the Tu-bliss setup. I ran it on the front and rear with my ADV bike, which...

I've been trying to use the Stark phone, it was working OK for a while....I would have to fire up the app, wait for the Stark app try to take over, switch back over....then the phone would try to go to sleep, I'd wake it up, then unlock it....and THEN it would work fine. But recently, that no...

In case you haven't seen them, check out Tu-bliss system - horrible name, but it turns the tubed tire into a quasi-tubeless system that lets you safely run very low pressure and lets you patch the tire from the outside just like a tubeless tire. Really like them, recommend them, however they are...

I like your solution for the strap mounts, Lasercat. I had a similar idea. Chadx - great idea on the strap to get it to stay sucked in. I'm going to try that. At first I was going to use the loops underneath, but then I realized those are zippers! Oops! I took pics after a day of riding and it...