Brammo Owners Forum

First of all, I messed up. I have a newborn in the house and the bike had sat for about 2 weeks. I went to hop on for a quick ride, but the charge was down to 6%, and being in a hurry I went and grabbed the car and apparently left the key in the on position. I came back to it two days later with the bike dead, while the key was in the on position. Switched to off and plugged in the charger- nothing.

Today I tried some trouble shooting. Checked the fuse boxes. The standard fuses are fine. The high voltage fuses, which would be my guess for the culprit, are opaque (brilliant design guys) so I can't tell if they're good or not. The last thing I tried was connecting my batter tender to the battery terminals (after lifting the covers), still nothing. I'm at the end of my competency here. Should I just suck it up and take it to the dealer (fingers crossed that Eurosports  still works on Brammos), or is there a simple solution here?

Something that crossed my mind recently. Just crossed the 4,000 mile threshold and the stock Contis are still kicking ass. By the look of it, I have another 2-3,000 miles easy. And these are pretty sticky tires, which tend not to go past 3-4,000 miles usually. What are others experience with tire wear? Do you think it has anything to do with how the power is delivered to the ground? I mean, these are not exactly light bikes.

Wasn't sure if this belonged in the Empulse section or off-topic, but I guess it's more of a general interest story. Would it work as plug and play for the Empulse? Remove the 3.3 kW stock charger, pop this baby in, and double/triple your charging speed (depending on the charging station)? $3k ain't cheap, but I wonder how much the stock charger cost for the Empulse. Might work as a $1k factory upgrade, perhaps. It's exciting to see progress in this area though.
http://insideevs.com/zero-motorcycles-gets-supercharger/

Hey guys, is there an Empulse parts fiche out there somewhere? I have a bit of an oil leak on my bike and it looks like it's the left gasket. Just wondering if I can order the part ahead of time, so when I bring the bike in for inspection the part's already there (and if that's not the issue, I'm assuming the gasket is not crazy expensive).

Just called up me local dealer, since my tranny decided to spring a small leak. Figured it's time to do the recall anyway as well as upgrade the firmware. Anyway, it's business as usual for them, said they're still getting parts and warranty reimbursements. In case anyone was wondering.

Caution, lots of naughty words:

I've had my Empulse for 6 months now and only used an L2 charger once. Most of my trips have been in town, or to visit the rents where I can "top-off" at their garage. The one time I used a J1772 outlet, I researched on Plugshare and found a free charger far enough to work for a longer ride (about 90 miles total). What I'm having problems with is differentiating between Chargepoint, Blink and other providers. Do you need to have a separate account to use each? For example, I activated the Chargepoint card that came with the bike, but when I tried to use it at what showed up as a Chargepoint outlet in the app, no amount of waving the card did anything (and the outlet was labeled as something else). And why the hell can't you just pay with a credit card at these things anyway?

Anyway, I searched, didn't find the answers I was looking for, so hence this post. Keep in mind, I'm on the east coast, where our infrastructure is not as robust, so the ability to be able to plan ahead confidently is pretty important. So looking for some best practices that folks have developed with their experience.