Geezer with a Grudge: 2019's Six eMotorcycles

Mar 8, 2019

2019's Six eMotorcycles

Design News Magazine recently ran one of those irritating multipage articles about "Six Electric Motorcycles That You Can Buy In 2019." The six are Zero's SR/F, Harley's butt-ugly Livewire with an MSRP of $29,799, the Italian Energica Ego at $22,565 and 9 dealers spread at the far reaches of continental North America, the $38,888 to $47,000 Lightning LS-218 Superbike, KTM's off-road-only Freeride E-XC ready-to-race at $8,299, and the New Zealand-based Ubco 2018 2x2 a two-wheel-drive scooter/thing with an MSRP of $6,999.

I don't know about you, but the ONLY one of those motorcycles I could afford to consider is the Ubco. With a top speed of 30mph, the Ubco is a moped, not a motorcycle. The Ubco's 75 mile range puts it in moped territory, practically speaking.

2 comments:

Geoff James said...: 3/10/19, 6:24 PM
T.W. Day said...: 3/12/19, 12:17 PM

The Geezer Story

I stumbled upon this column name (Geezer with a Grudge) almost 20 years ago, in 1999. The first Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly editor I worked with, in late 1999, complained that the magazine was getting no mail and the editors wanted to know if any readers were still out there. I fired off a sarcastic note, as a joke, intended to provide a little humor and some feedback. He published it as an article and later called me to say he'd received more mail on that letter than he'd received in the past year! I followed that with an offer to write a monthly column attempting to piss off a particular section of the magazine's readership to see if that tactic would generate some mail.

It did, probably more regularly than the magazine wanted at times, and I wrote a monthly column for MMM until the magazine died in 2018.

I plan to post an occasional old Geezer article into the blog, followed by short comments about the current status of my perspective on our activity/sport/vehicle of choice.