The DSR/X joins the semi-off-road bike club with 166 pound-feet of torque and the biggest battery they could stuff between two wheels.
The monikers for motorcycle genres are charmingly descriptive. A bagger has bags, a naked bike is scant on bodywork, and an adventure bike is for riding to the sort of places where you have to bribe a local official to buy three gallons of gas siphoned out of a crop-duster. To that end, adventure bikes are tall, with leggy suspension travel, big fuel tanks and tires that can tolerate some dirt.
In its standard specification, the DSR/X packs 15.2 kilowatt-hours of usable capacity into the rectangular lithium-ion battery slung low in its trellis frame. Another 3.0 kilowatt-hours or so can be added via the optional $3200 Power Tank, which replaces the storage cubby in front of the rider with another battery. A 6.6-kW onboard Level 2 charger can charge the battery from zero to 95 percent in about two hours, with the optional $3000 dual charger cutting that time in half .
Both of those, and the Zero, can plug in to your household outlet and charge at 1.0 kilowatt or so, which might prove useful. One day, we plugged in the Zero on a Level 1 charger during a pit stop at a fellow rider's house and upped the charge by 5 percent. Which was important, since we rolled back into the driveway with 4 percent charge remaining.
Range is always on your mind, because the Zero's prodigious thrust makes it difficult to exercise restraint with your throttle wrist. The electric motor's 100 horsepower is nice, but it's that immediate 166 pound-feet of torque that makes the bike feel lighter than its roughly 550-pound weight.
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