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[Pard]

Well this is just crazy.

So the bike is going to end up in the shop im afraid,  there is more shit wrong with it.

so I goto the website to get the dealers info to make an appointment.

Eurocycles of orlando is my dealer.

dealers website is gone, 
dealers facebook page is gone / private now

so I try eurocycles of Daytona, because it's the same people who own both of these business'

THEIR site is gone too !

Did eurocycles go out of business?

man, someone does NOT want me to ride my bike !!

Aaron

Maddening.

2 dealerships in NY ceased supporting Energica.   Tough industry.  Hope that did not happen to the shops near you.

Worst case scenario you can ship the bike to a dealer that will fix it for you. 

AF1 in TX is not too far from FL.

You will get it fixed.

[Specter]

No they didn't hit my race bike, but now Ill probably fiddle with that, figure a way to hook the lights back up on it swap the plate over and umm. err...

the rat poison, oh I have better ways,  the entire garage went IDLH last night.  today ill be moving shit out of the garage, seeing WHERE they were, cleaning up that mess, and well, ive been wanting to clean the garage anyways,  here's my chance.  get rid of the dead rats and whatever else too.  I also got a possum last night that was bothering my chickens but that one i shot.  Yesterday was a good day for ridding pests.

on the insurance, i have full coverage so the bike SHOULD be covered on this, it's geico though, they are real sleazy but one of the few who will insure bikes so let's see what happens.

the dealers closing, yah that sucks and in a way Energica is kind of responsible.  The bike is so reliable, and maintenance free, that it rarely needs to go to a dealer unless we bugger them up some how.  The dealer is not making a lot of money off repairs / maintenance so keeping them around is a bit of an ask unless they are selling pretty good, which Florida now IS one of the best states for EV sales, right along with California, Washington so there is that.

If it does go into the shop, im probably going to have it beefed up,  I want the brakes on the bike like my EGO has, just stupid stop on a dime fast, and Im thinking of trying that new suspension system that the guy in New England made for the Energica bikes.  It's supposedly really good and not nearly as expensive as the 4k ohlins are, so I could try that out and compare the two.

It never ends, oh well, guess I'll be not riding for another few weeks at last 

Aaron

[Specter]

Well, it's a no-go on the home fix.  Even though I got the wires spliced and all, the shielding is messed up and it's cross talking for lack of a better word and not running well at all.  I don't want to risk damage to the bike so won't run / play with it anymore.  I did my best but there's something else wrong somewhere else.  Besides that hose is in a tiny ass tight location to get to and around, you REALLY need a jack stand to work on it comfortably, and I don't have one, so....

Insurance claim it is.  To the shop it goes.  F88k F##k,  F3tk   F!!!!!kkkkk

The Energica dealer out here was just bought out by someone else.  They are merging and changing names and all kinds of stuff.  Ok but you supposedly are a BIG name, and you immediately cut the old name, killed the website, with no re directs to the new one or anything like that?

They were real shady shitbags to begin with IMO, every time I've dealt with them, they done me dirty,  lied about stuff, etc. so I really have ZERO confidence in them and really do NOT want to work with them at all if I can help it.  I have heard many people also tell me,  very respectable people (unlike me tee hee hee), that they were not good people and did them wrong as well. 

When I used them, They left my bike out in the rain, ruining a set of my track gloves, I had them professionally cleaned but they still are not right.  They stripped out screws in my plastic, cracked the plastic in one area, (im not tearing this shit apart, I have NO business in those areas), and I highly doubt energica is selling a brand new bike with tore up fairings.  Brought the bike in for warranty work, and the item they supposedly fixed / corrected is doing the same thing again.  They tried to screw me bad when they sold me the bike, I have nothing good to say about them.

If I have any word in it, Id rather send the bike to AF1 racing, they always did me very well, or Energica of New England, they always did me good as well. or back to the company in SanFran, which might be where it is going anyways, especially if I am going to be upgrading parts.

This begs me to ask,  ok so the dealer sold out to someone else.  Energica's contract was with person A, can that just transfer over to person B?,  I mean Energica vets their dealerships, can they just swap like that w/o any issues?  In other words is this guy going to KEEP the Energica part of his conglomerate dealership?  I don't want to drop a bike there and then hear, oh we don't support them anymore, and im stuck in limbo, paying thousands of dollars to transport a bike all over the country.

Hopefully, I hear back from Energica Monday or Tuesday so I know how we are going to proceed with this, as I want  NEED to get this bike up and going here asap.  Race season is coming up, I also have a few events I am attending, one of them, thru one of the companies out here who are showing off 'electric stuff'  and have people bring in their electric vehicles to show off.  I got the electric bike and would rather show off the street legal one .vs. the track one since the street one is the one they'd more likely buy!  anyways.  Ill keep you updated as I find out more.

Next step, lets see how Progressive Insurance handles this, will they be decent or scummy as well.

Aaron

[Pard]

Do you have homeowners insurance? 

If your motorcycle insurance does not honor the claim, which may be classified as a complete writeoff, being that the electric bike has had its main wiring destroyed, your homeowner insurance may cover it since it was in your garage, parked, when the damage occurred.

I would push for a total writeoff.  Save the downtime and grief of a complex unspecific repair.

Don't report that you attempted the repair yourself. Restore it to pre-attempt config before an adjuster shows up.

Homeowner insurance covers many things.

[Specter]

Yes I have homeowners and have an umbrella policy on it too.  The money I pay those sob's every year, I should get something out of it.  It's thru USAA so I may give it a whirl and see how it all plays out.  Total writeoff I never thought of but yah that'd work too, just have energica ship a brand new one out to me and offer to dispose of the old, DANGEROUS BATTERY vehicle myself to save them the time and effort.

Actually, if the homeowners gets involved, Ill have them pay to fix the garage door too, fix the bottom flap that they ate thru and tore to hell.



Aaron

[Richard230]

My understanding for many years has been that homeowner's insurance does not cover motor vehicles. You need a separate policy for that, even if they suffer damage while in your home's garage. However, I have no idea if that is true for an "umbrella" policy.

[Specter]

I'll be finding that out real quick richard.  I have USAA for home, so we'll see what they say.  They don'tinsure bikes directly but have a deal with progressive and hand off to them for bikes.  Hopefully it won't be a big deal and goes fairly simple for me.  I really don't need any more crap going wrong in life right now...

Aaron

[Pard]

What did your insurance carriers say?  Energica get back to you?

[Specter]

I'll be sending the bike into Energica to have it fixed.  That is the best option, as there is something else I found that is not working either.  I don't want to dick around and rig some stuff up, I want it fixed right, that is why I have insurance, for times like this.

The insurance, I am getting a quote on shipping the bike but they seem like it's no big deal to them.  We shall see!

Aaron

[Pard]

Excellent!

[Specter]

Well holy crap, that all moved very quickly.

So, I file the insurance claim,  the company says, someone will call you back within a few days

I then call to get the ball rolling on getting the bike shipped to California, because LOOK,  at the end of the day, I want my damned bike fixed and I don't want to dick around for 2  weeks waiting for an insurance company to finally say, well, ok, we'll cover it's shipping.  because the truth of that is, covered or not, I want my bike fixed and Im  shipping it to get fixed... no matter what.

No problem, get it sorted and they are going to come out friday and get my bike.

Fast forward a few hours.  I get a call from the moving company, im driving, so a bit distracted, got the speakerphone on so it's all good, I hope they don't ask for any numbers because im not able to get them, im driving.  They say, we are going to be in the hood tomorrow, can you have your bike ready to ship tomorrow, otherwise it might be next week, monday ish.  I say, yah ok, sure, im thinking hell yeah!  the sooner the better.  Cool, bike being picked up TODAY.

After hanging up, I'm driving for a few and saying to myself, well that was unexpected, something finally working FOR me for a change....then  I pull my head out of my ass, some oxygen hits my  brain and one of the 2 cells wakes up and I go, umm, hey dipshit??? what about the insurance adjuster?   well kiss my boochie I just  screwed the pooch on this one didn't I.

Luckily I was able to explain to the insurance company, hey man, I am REALLY sorry, I totally brain farted this, they are picking the bike up to ship it in a few hours.  He was like, oh that's no problem, we can just have an adjuster go look at the bike when it gets to California and he can take pictures for us out there.   Oh man, awesome.  This is probably an even better method, because the experts are there, and they can show the insurance adjuster exactly EVERYTHING that got damaged, what does what and why it's so important etc.  Having the people who actually built the bike explain it to them, will probably go a LOT further towards them approving the claim, since it's electric and I am sure it's going to need some justification,  WHY the entire harness?  you can't just do this or that?  type thing.   Its probably going to cost 1500 dollars or so, plus the thing is a massive spider web all over the bike, so you KNOW that's gonna be some hours undoing all those plugs, and tie straps, and tape, and and and.  having them see first hand,  well hopefully it all works out with minimal issues.

Im really hoping they just go, oh, yah it's damaged, simple  fix, here fix it, and sign it off, as there are no lawsuits, no injuries or lawyers or any of that garbage to have to deal with.  This one really should be a no brainer.

Now we wait a week or so for the bike to get there and see what the real prognosis is.  I just pray that all it really is, is just the harness and not a bunch of stuff got fried too by stray voltage going between chewed wires where it don't belong and all.  I know I have had to fix rat chewed on shit at the power plant over the years, and it's absolutely amazing sometimes, how much damage, a few bared wires touching can cause to a control system. 

Aaron