Motorcycles & Photography

A Home Assistant integration for 3rd gen Zero Motorcycles using exposed Starcom API

Long story short I was working on a Luminus Home Assistant integration to get my electricity bills in the system when I realised I never botherd implementing one for the starcom API...

How SOLAR makes all the difference RIDING ELECTRIC (cars)

I think I should start using chat GPT or other generative AI to create blog titles, it’ll likely do better than me. But that’s not what this article is about. I’ve made...

This is what my Energica electric motorcycle consumes in electricity every month for my ~50 km commute (=200 km a week)

Since I’ve added my Energica to my home assistant setup at home I got great insight in some of the numbers. One of them is the amount of energy that goes into...

HEADLESS SETUP on my ENERGICA SS9 Electric Motorcycle to push OBDII data to HOME ASSISTANT

One of the things I still had to fix on my Home Assistant setup monitoring my Energica electric motorcycle was to replace that Android phone with some headless device that could remain...

home assistant dashboard showing Energica data pushed over MQTT

How I’m pushing data from my Energica electric motorcycle to my Home Assistant installation

First a quick disclaimer, I’m literally writing this 3 days after the installation of my Home Assistant setup so I have little experience with that. Therefor many of the configuration details could...

Did my Energica battery degrade in 2 years and 25.000 km and if so by how much?

When I bought the bike new in may 2021 it had a usable capacity of 17.400 Wh when charged in ideal conditions. That is a full balanced charge with a battery temperature...

Recording Yamaha XSR 900 Akrapovic exhaust sound

Just like I’ve done with my electric motorcycle I’ve attempted to record audio at the exhaust from my Yamaha XSR. It has a titanium Akrapovic twin exhaust. Fully street legal with big...

Service intervals and costs for Yamaha XSR 900, another overview

First off all I can totally recommend doing these services yourself. You don’t need that much tools to be able to and you’ll save a lot of costs. Plus you learn so...

Yamaha XSR 900 vs Energica SS9 some initial numbers

Now that I have a conventional internal combustion engine powered motorcycle again it’s time for some different numbers. I have to say some of these numbers really surprised me. Most people are...

Yamaha XSR900 all you need to know

Yes I got an ICE motorcycle again! I just couldn’t get used to no longer having a ride followed by an Akrapovic 😎 Below video is from the past riding my 2016...