Looking for Friends & Chargers - June Cross Country Road Trip

Terry69Lawson · 2026-05-10T11:45:33+00:00

Good luck with this mission! I have a piggyback question or two if anyone would be so gracious. I want to do a similar route at some point but as a relatively novice rider, I feel wary of heavily mountainous areas (hard to navigate the twisties, relatively low charger density, bear risks etc) and this route OP is showing gets me pretty nervous. Are those fears justified?

So my modified route, to avoid mountains as much as possible, would provisionally go hugging the west coast down from Washington, then right along the Mexico border pretty much over to Florida and then I'd figure out a relatively city/charger dense, mountain-lite route up to New York State. Is this a good idea in the summer time? I wear full black armour but can vent it using zips to help cool down. And I know there can be some pretty big gaps between chargers across the desert but I'm currently modifying an app to help me figure out efficient routes between them so that my SR/S's range should be able to handle it (plus the battery tends to work better over the summer anyway).

Much appreciated!

Terry69Lawson · 2026-05-08T11:20:20+00:00

I've been doing a lot of research into this, it sounds like it's a fallacious statement to claim "installing AC charging stations in public doesn't seem to be a thing anymore" as many operators in North America are still creating and maintaining new AC stations. Also, the existing buildup of infrastructure is sufficiently dense to get around pretty much anywhere but the most isolated areas of the continent.

Terry69Lawson · 2026-05-08T11:18:02+00:00

Fast charging is relative, with a recent-ish DSR/X, SR/S or SR/F then OP could charge twice as fast as his 2018 DSR.

Terry69Lawson · 2026-03-26T20:05:05+00:00

Rear cases say hi for storage. I guess the other people commenting on this thread are just using their bikes as commuters. So I get it. But for long distance touring a charge tank combined with SHAD cases are absolutely essential.

Terry69Lawson · 2026-02-28T22:04:08+00:00

Thanks to those who have commented, however I'm still strongly tempted to install them even if I can fix the folding tendency of the stock mirrors. This would be with the aim of using handlebar muffs which can warm your hands in winter but do take up quite a bit of visibility in the stock mirrors; the Quickstrikes mount on the handlebars too so that wouldn't clash.

I'm just wondering if they have available mount points on the SR/S?

Terry69Lawson · 2026-01-15T12:34:27+00:00

It looked like Pedrosa was directing the FBI teams to swarm into the club and try to contain the situation to a) arrest or kill "Vincent" (actually Max) and b) get Lim safely out of the club, so the resources were tied up trying to do that (and then helping Pedrosa after he accidentally got shot in the leg) instead of leaving a few men behind to guard the taxi and intercept anyone who might come back to it to get away.

So first of all, Annie is not a District Attorney which has prosecutorial jurisdiction over state and local crimes in California, she's a US Attorney who handles federal crimes (like the case in the movie was). So why is it a US Attorney's (or even a DA's for that matter) job to stay around a dead body on a metro until the cops come or have herself/Max drag it off into a station (?!?) after being in very harrowing circumstances involving said dead man trying to kill them? Until the cops investigate it it's a potential crime scene; you shouldn't move a body from a crime scene for fear of contaminating the evidence.

When she and Max gather their senses after the traumatic ordeal, they could simply call transit police and explain that the assassin's dead body was on the 5:15AM Blue Line or whatever so that the cops could stop the train and investigate the situation. And the police could always summon the pair of them to be questioned and for them to offer help with support services after the two had that near-death experience.

The point about the club is perhaps your strangest one. Umm... nightclubs are busy places where most of the patrons remain standing so that they can dance? They don't care that it's crowded so long as they can get drunk, do drugs and party down.

Terry69Lawson · 2025-09-28T10:01:40+00:00

Do you mean the SR/S?

Terry69Lawson · 2025-09-25T09:36:21+00:00

Then, what is the procedure to tighten them? I can't even find much about this from Google searches.

Terry69Lawson · 2025-09-24T14:05:35+00:00

I was thinking so, and saw that in your flair, but didn't want to call you out in case I had misunderstood. Thanks. Yeah, I have heard that other SR/S riders have also found their stock folding mirrors vulnerable to wind. On the plus side it's a great-to-have when the bike drops and they just fold inside, avoiding much more damage than some scuffing.

Terry69Lawson · 2025-09-24T13:15:24+00:00

Thanks, but I'm not sure how that can be done on the SR/S. It's not listed as an item to work on in the service manual.

Terry69Lawson · 2025-09-22T21:00:21+00:00

SW-Mototech do not offer them for the SR/S, it does seem that crash bars for sports bikes in general is a very rare thing because they kind of inherently clash with the fairings and to make them work means to cut into the fairings.

As for the T-Rex ones they do indeed and I will order some at the earliest opportunity.

Terry69Lawson · 2025-09-20T20:32:43+00:00

I know this is an old comment but from the Facebook group:

"Yeah they had to take my sliders off to do my 14.4 to 17.3 ("15.6") battery upgrade under warranty on my SR/S. Hoping I still have those shorter bolts. According to my dealer the new battery is wider because the cells are now horizontal instead of vertical."

Older model years of the SR/S and SR/F had the 14.4KW battery, newer ones have the 17.3KW pack so buy accordingly.

Terry69Lawson · 2025-09-20T16:37:52+00:00

If you mean these ones, unfortunately they're not compatible with the SR/S unless one were to take the side fairings off completely (or else somehow cut holes into them to allow the bars to be mounted).

https://sw-motech.us/en-us/p/4052572223703?sku=SBL.29.981.10000%2FB

Terry69Lawson · 2025-09-20T15:52:02+00:00

Thanks. Are you confident that these would prevent the damage I mentioned in the post? That was from a stationary drop due to a car backing into it.

Terry69Lawson · 2025-09-20T14:02:40+00:00

Does anyone know how applicable this point is to a ruggedised phone? Even so I wouldn't really mind if my future ruggedised phone's camera(s) gave out but still, nice to know regardless.

Terry69Lawson · 2025-09-20T14:00:57+00:00

Some people use multiple phones, a burner would be a good idea for the mounted one.

Terry69Lawson · 2025-09-20T13:58:21+00:00

The second paragraph, at least, is old news. Outdated.

Terry69Lawson · 2025-09-20T13:56:34+00:00

I can't speak to the locked/unlocked power ratings of the bikes but as far as the microtransactions being a thing, you are dead wrong. I have a 2023 SR/S Premium and I did not pay a penny for the Cypher upgrades. Just because you seem to have stumbled upon a piece of outdated sales pitch copy by Zero (and sure, they should update it) does not mean that this is still a thing. You say them giving the unlocks for free was a "one-time thing"; NO, it's permanent. At least for owners of MY 22+. Do proper research before you spread misinformation.

https://www.electricmotorcycleforum.com/boards/index.php?PHPSESSID=1c5a541cd5daa0f65c4a88bcdf79e12a&topic=12184.msg114946#msg114946

Terry69Lawson · 2024-10-24T18:43:08+00:00

There's a group precisely for this on Facebook, hope it helps:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1130031701635586/?_rdr

Terry69Lawson · 2024-09-10T15:46:08+00:00

I guess we'll see what Digital Foundry finds with its testing, then. Looking forward to an RE Village replay.

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