Did a big post about my Tron-themed garage some time back, so won't repeat anything here. Just a single photo of my electric cafe racer bike in the garage - got some time to spend with bike thanks to long weekend. For me, there is nothing in the world more relaxing than working on your own bike in your own garage!
Happy Independency Day everyone!
This is version 3 of my 3d-printed Beeline GPS adapter. Since it has some space underneath I was thinking how can I leverage it. And this is what I ended up with. Pretty handy, but probably redundant. Anyway, it was fun designing, printing and installing it!
Following the ideas I borrowed from /u/divinethreshold I did similar mod for my front fork to get rid of silver fork legs. Together with bigger headlight make Beachman looks bigger and more serious, which is good or bad depending on your preference. I personally think it adds some substance to the bike, making it feel beefier and I like it!
I am adding some extra magnetic buttons for my saddlebags, so got a chance to revise their content:
What do you have in yours? Any unusual/unexpected items to share with community? May be you are riding without anything and happy about it? Let's chat!
I start exploring if/how can I registered unlocked/no-pedals Beachman 64 (LSM spec) in New Jersey. Looks like, in the unlocked mode, it doesn't fit the moped definition here in NJ, since it caps the top speed to 35mph and directly forbids riding the roads with higher speeds (which I have to do time-to-time, since those are the roads here).
Those of you, who did register the bikes in US as mopeds, please share you experience or share the link to older posts if you did some time back already - trying to learn and be prepared.
P.S. My understanding is that if MCO says it is "moped", I can only register it as moped, not as motorcycle or something like this.
Hello, fellow Beachmans! I got the situation to park the bike on the incline recently and it is actually was not an easy thing to do. Since I don't have "real" motorcycle riding experience, I checked what solutions are there for "real" motorcycles.
What I learn is quite straightforward - on majority on ICE bikes with clutch, the solution is simply leave the bike with a gear engaged - this will block bike from rolling, as transmission will serve as a brake. For those models without clutch (like Honda DCT equipped models), there is additional stationary brake in place, which activates separate brake caliper on the rear brake disk.
However electrical bikes (even big and heavy, like Livewire models), don't have any preinstalled! Same as Beachman. So, here is my question - what is the best way to park on the incline, if kickstand / wheel angle setup is not enough? What do you do in such cases?
It looks like anti-theft lock like on the image is simple solution for the problem. Did anyone try? Any other ideas for same problem? Share you experience an/or opinions please!