This blog is an overview of my writings about my electric and non electric motorcycles & adventures. From riding around looking for chargers to my commute or just general maintenance and servicing. If you only want to see the motorcycle related articles check out this “motorcycles” category.
Where possible I also share video published on my (English) YouTube Channel. If you want to get in touch it’s best to go there and leave a comment or post something here on this blog.
You’ll notice I like numbers and I’m not afraid of comparing stuff I own and don’t own. I don’t ride electric just because it’s cheaper, I do however commute on an electric because of that (and other) reason(s).
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
This is what the dynamic brake light on Energica electric motorcycles looks like in action, 360 footage from behind
Energica has what’s known as a dynamic brake light. Just like BMW motorcycles the light will flash on emergency braking to notify traffic behind you
Recording pure electric motorcycle sound, Another attempt
I’ll just share the video to show the results. Most of my videos where I’m riding have audio recorded from within the helmet. This time