[Richard230]

The battery pack in my daughter's 2014 Zero is now 8 years old and is still functioning as well as it did when new.

[AzCal Retred]

https://doublemaviation.com/hobbs-time-vs-tach-time/

HOBBS TIME EXPLAINED
The Hobbs meter measures the hours the aircraft is being operated, and it was invented in 1938 by John Weston Hobbs. The switch controlling the Hobbs meter can be set to turn on when the Master switch is turned on, via oil pressure after the engine is started, or multiple other methods. The Hobbs meter records time as hours and tenths of hours, and it is a true measurement of how long the airplane is being operated. In other words, when an hour passes on your watch, an hour has passed on the Hobbs meter. Pilots should use Hobbs meter time when logging flight hours.

GF @ 974: Good point. Likely the car CPU records the battery demand factor, duration of hi/lo voltage conditions, etc. and converts it to "usable life remaining". Probably will eventually be added onto the "CarFax" or similar info.

So far I've just met one Lexus hybrid owner that had replaced his battery, after maybe 10-12 years, about $4K. In my reading about Prius ownership the rates & prices seem similar. These are plain-Jane NiMH batteries, not the higher capacity Li batteries.

[Arschloch]

"pilots should use....", before you can do anything you need to free yourself from of all the folks who know what you should do.

[GlennF]

"pilots should use....", before you can do anything you need to free yourself from of all the folks who know what you should do.

The FAA does not make Hobbs meters compulsory.

The Hobbs does, however, make completing the aircraft logbook and pilot logbook after the flight simple, and it also acts as a sort of verification of actual aircraft hours if you ever want to sell.

In reality, very few real life pilots are anarchist, barnstorming, Hans Solo cowboy types and most people try and follow the rules, even "suggested" ones, as closely as possible.  Sometimes to their detriment, there have been cases of pilots running out of fuel and dying because they overflew a perfectly good but restricted military airbase and did not want to declare an emergency to be allowed to land there.

[AzCal Retred]

I have found that in technical professions involving actual hardware interactions the rulebooks are generally written in blood.

A good quality helmet, protective clothing, functional brakes and a rider with some proficiency are required to reliably take your motorcycle for a ride. Orthopaedics & spinal injury wards are full of folks that had "freed themselves from these constraints".

Even making modifications to your motorcycle requires some prudence & judgement. Erring on the side of caution on a machine that can generate enough speed to easily crush you to pulp has long term survival advantages.

"There are three general ways folks learn. There are those that learn from books. There are those that learn by watching others. Then there's that final group that just has to piss on the electric fence for themselves."

[Arschloch]

I would want to wait for your approval of my protective gear and motorcycle though. 

[AzCal Retred]

Just put on a sock hat, sunglasses and go for it. What could go wrong...

[Arschloch]

Just put on a sock hat, sunglasses and go for it. What could go wrong...

... that's something you are more likely see in California than anywhere else. However, if you intend to pop around the block with bicycle speed anyway, I don't really see what's wrong with it.

[Richard230]

Speaking of E-Bikes and California, yesterday I saw a teenage girl ride up my street on an electric bicycle at about 30 mph, while not touching the handlebars or looking ahead and instead holding a cell phone while looking at it and with earphones plugged into both ears. I wonder how long you can do that before running into a curb, pedestrian, a loose animal, or a car pulling out of a driveway? 

[viczena]

Darwin will tell...

[AzCal Retred]

In Tucson in the 1980's the standard college fraternity frat-boy riding outfit for their KZ650 around-town outing was rubber flip-flops, satiny-gym shorts, a fishnet crop top, a great tan and hair-do. All accompanied to the jangly tune of an O-Ring chain exuding rust past the o-rings and having about 4" of slop in it. And of course the fish-hooked rear sprocket and obligatory almost-to-the-cords-in-the-very-center-of-the-tread OEM tire. As Viczena says, Darwin Award candidates. Prime organ donors though...

https://darwinawards.com/

[GlennF]

In Tucson in the 1980's the standard college fraternity frat-boy riding outfit for their KZ650 around-town outing was rubber flip-flops, satiny-gym shorts, a fishnet crop top, a great tan and hair-do.

[viczena]

Nice shoes

[NVDucati]

ATGATT !!!

[AzCal Retred]

I think we all agree that she certainly has all the gear, all the time...Motel Death on the hoof!   

Much easier on the eye than those 80's frat boaz on their clapped-out KZ650s that Daddy had bought for them.