I think many people here can afford to own 2 motorcycles, and in fact do.
And did you stop and think why that is?
Virtually only in the US, where you primarily use motorcycles as toys, not transportation. And it's telling that virtually noone in the Forum owns an e-motorcycle without also a garageful of ICE bikes... When e-motorcycle repairs commonly take months, that's a necessity.
If you got 20 to 30k for an e bike, you can throw a little extra chum in the water for a gas bike too if you must.
If you are one of these folks who buys the e bike and has to eat ramen noodles 4 times a week to be able to afford it, well, that's on you.
Ah, yes, more entitled American exceptionalism.
Base price for an Experia is $38K here, in a country where average salaries are 30% lower than in the US and taxation far higher.
Same way with bikes, they are getting better and better every year. No they may not be able to 'this and that' quite yet, but there are many things they CAN do and do well.
What can they do except commuting, pray tell?
No e-motorcycle can do any kind of road trip yet, as I outlined. Not together with gas bikes. Otherwise, why of you think no large manufacturers have gotten into the act yet (the H-D is a sales joke because charging ability and price)? The largest e-motorcycle vendor, Zero, is still a startup selling in the low 4 digits per year, globally.
Those sales numbers are no accident
But GEE, it doesn't have a crappucino machine in the left pannier that lets me pour myself a double crappa cappa mocha pooftie mooker to go with my olive toast. (Im working on that !!! )
Right back at you, asshole.