Steakandchips posted:

I should get a shaver that charges at 7kw.

Regarding:

The power distribution company got back to me with a quote today to wire me up for 3 phase. £60,500. That'll be a no from me dawg. 6 grand, maybe. 60, uh no.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Assuming you're somewhere suburban or exurban (which seems a fair assumption if you've got a garage to put your charger in) that's not too bad a price, considering they'd need to dig up the road from your nearest substation and basically lay a cable especially for you.

Might be worthwhile talking to your local authority to see if they have any plans to roll out EV charging infrastructure - for obvious reasons they won't do it to your house for you but if they're putting in dedicated chargers (or those ones that go into lamp posts) on a road nearby that might bring the price right down if UKPN only have to run a spur from the next street along or something. It's a long shot but it costs nothing to ask.

Steakandchips posted:

I moved a month or so ago. I live in an area like this, and my house is similar to the one depicted below in the centre of the picture, via Google Maps:



It's very rural, a 7 on the 8 point scale of rural-ness, 8 being the most rural (the scale is set by the Scottish government. I my checked my rural-ness because you have to be an 8 to qualify for the extra £100 grant for an EV charger [you don't get the grant for electric motorcycles at the moment at all, neither the £250 from the UK gov, nor the £350 from the Scottish gov, nor the extra £100 from the Scottish gov, because e-motorbikes are not on the OZEV list, and adding to the OZEV list is a retained matter for the UK government, and the DFT insist manufacturers ask to be added to it, which Harley hasn't done yet. The amount of bullshit red tape only to be told no after a month...]). Pheasants and sheep occasionally wander onto my property, there's wild deer that sometimes come by, and we can see birds of prey flying about near the woods in the distance, that's how rural it is. There's a huge wind turbine in a local farm about 400m away.

The power distribution company said they'd need to upgrade 8 "spans" of overhead line to 3 phase, and that the local transformer would need to be upgraded to 3phase 50KVA, and there'd be digging involved as well.

It's a good suggestion regarding the local authority, but given my rural-ness, there's not going to be any dedicated chargers any time soon. We don't have any lamp posts (it's really dark at night, particularly when you can't see the moon), so chargers are so unlikely in the near/middle future. There's one chargepoint in the nearest town, which is 10 miles away. Its CCS DC charger was broken when I went last week, but the regular Type 2 AC charger it had was working apparently (it was in use).

Steakandchips posted:

Pheasants and sheep occasionally wander onto my property, there's wild deer that sometimes come by, and we can see birds of prey flying about near the woods in the distance, that's how rural it is.

Phy posted:

I'm not physically claustrophobic, as far as I know, but reading you use "the presence of wild animals including deer and birds of prey" as a measure of ruralness gives me this incredible cramped feeling. Kind of like the one I get when I spend time in Toronto and drive for three hours (in flowing traffic, not gridlock on the 401) and am still surrounded by buildings.

It's probably because Calgary is isolated in the middle of undeveloped foothills, farmland, ranches and a big First Nations reservation, and is shot through with parks and green spaces. So as lovely as we are, and as bad as the bird count has gotten over the years, we still have a lot of "wild"life in a city of over a million. Hawks and falcons are everywhere during the warm months, there's deer in most of the parks and sometimes they hang out by roads. Coyotes adapt very well to human presence and I used to live in an apartment where I could hear them singing most nights. My dad took pictures of a bobcat with kits in his front yard. It's not unheard of for moose, bears or even mountain lions to amble into town up one of the river valleys, although that usually makes the news when it happens. I've been here most of my life (and in even smaller more isolated places when I wasn't) so I just kind of take that as normal, but obviously it's not, at least in terms of more developed nations.

Steakandchips posted:

I lived and worked in Canary Wharf for a while. I prefer the countryside.

MomJeans420 posted:

I could see not wanting to live in something that crowded forever, but I used to live in The Tower hotel and work in Butler's Wharf and that was the best commute I've had in my life (walking obviously). Other than working from home I guess, but it was cool to walk across the bridge and then along the river every day.

Supradog posted:

if it does not jump to 6:12, go to that manually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS15RLUQ_FU&t=372s

Supradog posted:

if it does not jump to 6:12, go to that manually.

goddamnedtwisto posted:

That *is* the best place to stay in the area, because if you're in the hotel you can't see the outside of that giant concrete turd.

Nitrox posted:

Steakandchips, what problem are you attempting to solve by going to 3 phase service?

Personally, if I were to live in an area like that, I'd be pricing out solar panels and residential wind turbines.

Renaissance Robot posted:

Solar in Scotland? lmao

Residential wind doesn't make poo poo for power either; reasonably high rated turbines can be quite cheap, but they'll never make consistent power unless they're well clear of any nearby obstructions, which typically means lofting the thing a minimum of 10 metres above the top of your house.

Even if they worked well neither of these things would fix the issue of how to pump a lot of juice into a bike in a shorter space of time.

Phy posted:

The license plate illuminator is Jim Carrey

Supradog posted:

Some kinda golf ball dimple thing to brake up wind drag?
Apparently the side cases are made by corbin, and on a 2005 Kawasaki ZZR 1200.

Steakandchips posted:

If you want big solar and big wind, you need 3 phase to feed it back to the grid if you generate more than you use by a significant margin.

Also 22KW AC chargers need 3 phase.

Solar works fine here, and I have tons of roof space (it's a large single storey house).

Wind works very well here, it's super windy. If I got a 25k wind turbine, it could easily generate enough juice for both me, my neighbour and then have some left over to feed back to the grid.

It's not a big issue to me, juicing up the bike fast. If I need to go somewhere fast on a bike and the LiveWire is low, I'll just ride Bob.

Supradog posted:

Some kinda golf ball dimple thing to brake up wind drag?
Apparently the side cases are made by corbin, and on a 2005 Kawasaki ZZR 1200.

Nitrox posted:

You still haven't answered my question. What is the problem you have charging your bike right now? What is your service and how fast does it allow you to charge?

Nitrox posted:

You still haven't answered my question. What is the problem you have charging your bike right now? What is your service and how fast does it allow you to charge?

You can generate electricity without feeding it back into the grid, which is a normal thing on farms and rural communities. There are 1500-2000 watt kits on Amazon that will charge a battery bank. You can keep buying batteries to increase capacity. This is completely unrelated to your motorcycle issue of course. Although theoretically you could store power and then dump it into your bike rapidly, but I'm not a qualified electrician to recommend something like that.

Supradog posted:

Some kinda golf ball dimple thing to brake up wind drag?
Apparently the side cases are made by corbin, and on a 2005 Kawasaki ZZR 1200.

Jazzzzz posted:

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

I think the beetle bags are discontinued, laughed out of existence by the collective motorcycle hive mind.

However, google has evidence of their shame

VFR:


Superhawk:






Hayabusa:


I’m sure there are others

Phy posted:

I think they're slowly selling off the old stock cause I was looking on their site earlier and they still list them for the busa and a Honda cruiser

Also, I present to you, a satan:

numberoneposter posted:

Grom Content (Gromtent?) from Phuket, Thailand. April 2019. Had a lot of fun riding this thing around over there. I would always try and find a Grom if I could at the scooter shops, even if it meant having to check a few out.