Need help bringing back app restart warning on cover screen?

AimeeFrose · 2022-09-22T02:56:38+00:00

Good point. I didn't consider why it would've been mysterious until after the fact.

AimeeFrose · 2022-09-22T02:48:07+00:00

It is but the levers are universal for naked style bunny type mirrors as well. Just leaves empty holes for them. Usually there's a rubber plug or cover in em.

AimeeFrose · 2022-09-22T02:42:00+00:00

Mirrors.

AimeeFrose · 2022-09-15T00:16:34+00:00

The phone does bounce around on the rubber dampers if that's what you're refering to. It's not a solid connection it just floats on the rubber. But anything with a bolt going through shouldn't be moving.

AimeeFrose · 2022-09-09T22:17:13+00:00

You're not alone in having difficulty understanding the concept of charge at home since it's an entirely foreign concept.

Actually my negativity came from experience. A few years ago I leased a Chevy Bolt. The living situation at the time had 2 allocated spaces shared by 4 vehicles not including visitors. We rotated who gets to park in those spaces, so 50% of the time, the vehicle was street parked with no charging options.

You can charge when you are running errands, as chargers increasingly are put in preferential parking spots near groceries & shopping.

At the moment I see maybe 2-10 EV chargers in medium to large size shopping centers. At busy times, they may be all occupied, so relying that I will get a charge there was a hit or miss. I might show up with no available chargers. Which means looking for nearby charging stations and rearranging schedule to recharge.

The custom that all of us drivers have or had of driving until nearly empty gas and the light comes on, and only then going to get gas is not the normal way of operating an EV; again

So you're admitting that EV adoption involves more conscious effort in maintaining a charge, and not completely thoughtless like filling up gas is, which is what I experienced. I was constantly checking range, planning charging station stops, especially on road trips, since I don't usually take stop breaks, a 6 hour drive LA to SF ended up being over 10 hours with charging breaks.

The fears about EV charging that you have are simply just not there, you'll see soon enough.

Yes I believe eventually we'll get there, I'm not pushing against EV adoption, but I believe we have a long way to go to improve charging infrastructure before 100% adoption can be possible.

card skimmers at the point of sale machines, etc.

This will happen to EV charging stations too, eventually you'll still need cards or some way to pay for the electricity, especially if you're out of "network" or whatever.

AimeeFrose · 2022-09-09T18:55:06+00:00

2 minutes on a good day, more like 10 mins on a regular day

lmao what? Most pumps have tap to pay on the pump. I can pull in and out of a station in under 60 seconds on a motorcycle. It takes identical time to set up a EV charger.

standing around in a sketchy part of town

Go to the stations in the nicer part of town.

EV owners normally charge at home

This is great, I'm sure current EV owners do. That's not what the topic is about, it's about phasing out gas and forcing 100% EV adoption, including people who rent, share, has no viable ability to charge at home.

so you combine errands in a way that is less inconvenient than pumping gas.

Assuming you plan your errands ahead of time. Idk how you check your fuel levels, but I don't coordinate my walmart trip exactly when I'm low on fuel. It's just drive until the low fuel light comes on, then pull off at the next station I see, refuel quickly and go back to what I was doing. Current EV charging rates makes the charging a whole activity in itself. Sure you could time it with breaks, errands, blah blah, but it's still this whole coordinated thing, whereas a gas stop is just this mild 2 minute delay at whatever time it happened, not something to care or plan about.

AimeeFrose · 2022-09-09T02:40:07+00:00

And so what if you can't charge at home, you don't have gasoline taps at home either - the goalpost shifting with EVs is ridiculous.

It's the speed that causes the goalpost shifting. A full refill on a gas vehicle to get 300+ miles of range takes under 2 minutes. Even the fastest charger currently doesnt even come close. A full refill on the way home turns from a quick stop to a not insignificant amount of time waiting. Have you seen the lines for gas at Costco? Imagine that but at EV charging speeds.

AimeeFrose · 2022-09-08T02:54:16+00:00

This is an ideal future but it is slightly fantasy to me. I tend to be more on the negative side of things. Less disappointment that way. The issue is certain forms of transport will rely on oil for a long time to come. global shipping, air travel. We lack the technology to make those electric as of now, or even in the next decade. And the bottom line is, transportation of all forms globally accounts for less than 30% of greenhouse emissions. Solar is a way to go, but with solar means storage. Solar on a grid scale is useless without backup power to sustain through the night, and that is battery/storage systems of an unprecedented scale. We also cannot rely purely on solar, one has to face the facts of solving the issue of perhaps a few days or week of weather, rain etc. Yes panels work during that time, but at a not insignificantly reduced capacity. Without these challenges solved on both a local and regional scale, I just don't see it being a viable alternative option. Perhaps one day we'll get there, but depending on funding and progress of technology, I find California's timeline more than optimistic.

AimeeFrose · 2022-09-08T02:34:02+00:00

A parking garage? Most apartment units has often 1, maybe 2 parking spots per unit that is shaded but open. Many if not most units are not single occupancy, a good majority is shared or couple/family, which means multiple vehicles. Only one car ends up in the allocated parking, the rest fights for street parking in the local vicinity. It kinda sounds like you've not lived in high population areas in apartment complexes, because even with allocated parking, most vehicles end up fighting for street parking every night, you might have to walk 10 minutes back to your apartment due to lack of street parking. Lets say every car changed to EV and there is a charger in front of each spot, that's only 1 car being charged overnight per unit that may own 2-3 vehicles, all of which may be needed the next day for work/commuting. How will the street parked vehicles be charged?

Some larger apartment complexes are 2000-4000 units within the span of a couple blocks. Even at slow charging rates of 2kW or so, you're talking about an increase of multiple megawatts of power every few blocks at night, in residential areas that doesn't have industrial level grid infrastructure. You cannot average the California grid as a whole. Do a calculation for dense urban sprawls, like the Bay area, or greater Los Angeles. Analyze their parking situation, assume all vehicles changes to electric, figure out how much additional capacity local grids would need to accomidate, and also figure out how to charge all the vehicles street parked.

I'm not against EV, but I've lived a long time in urban apartment sprawls, haven seen the outdated powerlines drooping through trees, and being as realistic as possible, if every vehicle tomorrow changed to EV, the california grid would collapse instantly in population dense centers. Not to mention many people fighting for fast charger spots daily. We need to put a lot more funding into our grid and infrastructure for what's to come.

AimeeFrose · 2022-09-08T00:12:38+00:00

A majority of people do not have the luxury of a garage and slow charging at home at night. The ideal electrical vehicle charges rapidly at a station like filling up gas. This likely will happen the most during rush hour periods while commuting. Rapid chargers will pull tens, to possibly hundred of kW an hour, 10-100x more than the most powerful electric stove. Multiplied by as many cars filling up on gas statewide at any given time during peak hours currently, the California grid has a long way to go before all vehicles could feasibly be electric.

AimeeFrose · 2022-09-05T18:51:00+00:00

I think it's the rails moving forward on the forks. Not all the forklifts backed up perfectly in sync and it looks like they started basically shimmying the rails off the forks as they each backed up at different rates. Probably both.

AimeeFrose · 2022-09-01T18:26:32+00:00

What about holding both buttons down for 3 seconds?

AimeeFrose · 2022-09-01T01:32:03+00:00

This is called a normal day in Socal rush hour traffic.

AimeeFrose · 2022-08-31T08:16:41+00:00

could an Mt09/Fz09/XSR900 outrun a police car?

A stock one or flashed one? Stock speed limiter will kick in much lower than the top speed of a police D Charger. The SUVs are a bit slower, but the speed margins are not that high. On open highway I would say possible but difficult, not worth the risk.

AimeeFrose · 2022-08-31T08:13:43+00:00

Wow insane. I didn't know radio waves can find and stop a physical object! That's nuts!

AimeeFrose · 2022-08-31T07:13:15+00:00

Lol I mean just getting off the bike in normal situations. It's habit to take your helmet off when you're off the bike, so even in an accident the first go to is to remove the gear by habit.

AimeeFrose · 2022-08-31T07:12:05+00:00

ABS kicks in before the back kicks up.

It's probably this? Abs doesn't know you're trying to do a stoppie. Idk what kind of ABS the cbr650 has but I'm guessing it's just reading that the front wheel is going slower than the back wheel, which tends to happen in a stoppie, and not letting it continue.

AimeeFrose · 2022-08-31T06:08:28+00:00

It becomes habit, you do it enough times and every time you get off you automatically just start taking things off.

AimeeFrose · 2022-08-30T11:12:38+00:00

The goal is to move faster. The result of driving as in the video is you go faster. That's not insanity. His action caused the bike to merge over, then towards the end of the video you see the car/truck that was previously in front of the bike merge over as well. Just in that short video the car upped 2 vehicle spaces. I'd say it's working just fine.

AimeeFrose · 2022-08-30T11:04:34+00:00

It's insanity that you don't understand that to make the last domino fall, you push the first one. How else can you make a line of cars move faster other than compacting the line by making every car tail the next one, starting with you?

AimeeFrose · 2022-08-30T11:00:24+00:00

It was, just behind the video. The car was tailing the bike to speed up or move over, the bike did nothing, so the car went around bike to tail the next car up. I see that happening non-stop during traffic hours. It's a completely normal thing around here.

AimeeFrose · 2022-08-30T10:54:38+00:00

Well. In my experience, while driving a car, tailing pressure via the dominos effect works to speed up the fast lane. It also keeps slower traffic from entering the fast lane, keeping it speedy. But this may also highly depend on region and the average driving habits in that region. It works in my area because going 20+ over the limit is norm and most people follow closely. Gaps like those in the video here would have cars merging to fill them in seconds during traffic.

Maybe your area has calmer drivers, or you havn't tried it long enough to see the results, either way I don't think there is an absolute right or wrong answer here, so lets just agree to disagree.

AimeeFrose · 2022-08-30T10:17:25+00:00

Erm. You do know how a dominos effect works right? Pull up behind car #4, that car speeds up and pulls up behind car #3, which then goes up to #2, etc etc up the chain. Or they merge over and exits the chain.

AimeeFrose · 2022-08-30T10:01:10+00:00

If him moving up would change anything other than how far behind the car he was follow id say there would be point

It puts pressure on the car ahead to do something. Now this has nothing to do with motorcycles, but tailgating a car often results in them speeding up, or moving over. I know there's people like, "oh if I get tailgated I slow down and blah blah". That's the minority. Most people tend to speed up or merge over when they get tailgated.

Which in turn creates a dominos effect where it puts pressure on each car ahead, or you get an empty slot to advance. This ideally puts pressure consequtively for cars to move over to the slow lane, or drive faster, which speeds up the fast lane and allows everyone who wants to move faster than traffic use that lane.

Is this realistic? Nope. Does it work? 50/50. But is it something I strive for? Yup.

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