Brammo Owners Forum

Hi,

my Enertia+ had its chain and front sprocket replaced at my local dealer, but after they put everything back together the bike won't drive.
It shows a red warning light, but as my dashboard display is not working anymore, we can't see what the error message is.
The dealer doesn't have the original Brammo Enertia+ diagnostics software anymore, and the Victory version doesn't work on Enertias.
Does someone here by any chance know how to get a copy?
Or perhaps software to read the logs on the USB stick, error messages may be in there as well?

It would be a shame to have to scrap the bike because of this.

thanks, Frank

Last Friday, my beloved Enertia+ started acting up again. This time it's the dashboard. When it starts, all lights are on and the display is backlit (but not always with the all pixels on black as it should). Then after a few seconds, the dash looks like the picture below:

Note: this one was taken with the kickstand down so that indicator should be lit.

The bike rides like nothing's wrong, but after another while it will look like this:

That's everything OFF, including the green flashing leds on top. Except for the speedo needle.

Funny thing is, that earlier this fall, it was just the other way round (the speedo needle would be stuck on 0 while all other displays were working just fine).

It's kind of scary to ride the bike with no information whatsoever on SoC, motor temp, or possible error messages, but I do it anyway.

Any ideas? I suspect the cold (it's around freezing point here) and the fact that it seems not to be exactly waterproof, judging by the ever-present condensation behind the glass.

Another (related?) thing is that the horn also often doesn't work. But that started a longer time ago.

Hi all,

my Enertia Plus is happily riding through the start of winter here in Amsterdam, but today it suddenly showed "SYSTEM FAULT V58" messages, on and off. After a while they went away again. It didn't need a restart, but I was a little too afraid of a breakdown to take the tunnel route to my home.
I can't find that message in the manual. Does anyone have an idea, or experienced that one before?

Yesterday I noticed that the rear end of my Enertia Plus was wobbly. On closer inspection I saw that a bolt is missing. In the time that I own the bike (a year and three months) this is the second time a bolt's fallen out.

I've already asked my dealer about the size of replacement bolts, but with @shinysideup's scary story about his tail nearly falling off in mind, I think another warning can't hurt: check to see if these bolts are still fastened regularly!

There's four of them; two on each side under the taillight. Arrows mark the ones that had gone missing on mine. The bottom one I could replace with something I had in my toolchest, but the one that's missing now must be shorter and you'd need some L-shaped wrench to screw it in.

My wife tipped the editor of this weekly item in the Dutch national (but mostly Amsterdam focused) newspaper "Het Parool" about Amsterdammers and their favorite transport, so I had an interview and a photo shoot (in the rain) some two weeks ago. Yesterday it was published.

A translation for those of you that aren't Dutch:

"My old bike made a lot of noise and smelled bad. I felt bad about that more and more. In the Netherlands I was the first buyer of this type electric motorcycle from America, but I wasn't allowed to ride it because the model was not approved yet. I had to arrange that with the dealer at the RDW.
  The bike doesn't vibrate. On a smooth road it feels like floating on air. No, it's not completely silent. But not everyone hears you coming, so perhaps I use my horn a bit more. If you need an ego-boost, all you have to do is park it on a square somewhere. For instance, it doesn't have an exhaust. Immediately people approach you with questions.
  In the city you can ride 120 kilometers before the batteries are empty, on the highway 80. The maximum speed is limited to 110 kilometers an hour, otherwise the batteries are empty too soon. You can't really charge on the road, because it takes about six hours.
  I use the bike to ride to work and back, from IJburg to the Western Gas Factory area. The main advantage for me is that you can ride through the Piet Hein Tunnel, a scooter is forbidden there and you'd have to make a detour.
  The startup-problems will be over, I thought. But in the beginning I got errors when starting, like with a computer. It is a riding computer, in fact. When the motor shut down in the tunnel, I thought it was becoming too dangerous. The factory sent people from Germany to fix it. It turned out that the software wasn't calibrated right, now that's settled.
  At home I charge once a week, with green electricity. I feel a lot less guilty when I get on the bike."

A week ago my bike was delivered back from Germany. It was very well taken care of by Marcin, he got rid of all error messages and I received these side bags from Brammo for free to make up for all my troubles. To show off my bike in all its glory, I tried to mimick the promo shot that was made a few years ago, shortly after the Plus was announced. The real thing looks a lot like the promotion prototype, but some things are different. See if you can spot them all!

(Tip: click the image to zoom)

I've posted about cold weather charging before, but it keeps bothering me.
Charging right after a ride is apparently the solution to avoid "BATTERIES TOO COLD" messages, because the batteries are still warm then. But even then, when charging in temperatures just above 0ºC, I can't get my bike charged to 100% because the batteries will cool down even while charging. And after an hour or so, charging stops and the "BATTERIES TOO COLD" message comes back. It doesn't seem to help to just leave the bike connected to the wall socket and let the battery heating system do it's job. The manual says to charge between temperatures of 0ºC (32ºF) and 45ºC (113ºF).
Maybe I'm the only idiot driving (and charging) in freezing winter conditions, or does someone else have experience with cold weater charging? Could it help to cover my bike to keep it warmer while charging? Any other ideas?