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Author Topic: Lightning's first Strike (photos!)  (Read 4762 times)

mistasam

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Lightning's first Strike (photos!)
« on: September 17, 2019, 01:10:05 AM »
All photos belong to Kevin Barnard.

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Re: Lightning's first Strike (photos!)
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2019, 01:10:46 AM »
More from the factory
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Re: Lightning's first Strike (photos!)
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2019, 01:11:17 AM »
Some of the bike on a ride to SF
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Re: Lightning's first Strike (photos!)
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2019, 02:36:42 AM »
Glad to see it finally making it to the street!
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Re: Lightning's first Strike (photos!)
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2019, 06:26:03 AM »
This is what we need more of.
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Re: Lightning's first Strike (photos!)
« Reply #5 on: September 17, 2019, 07:14:52 AM »
Any word on delivery date for yours?
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Re: Lightning's first Strike (photos!)
« Reply #6 on: September 17, 2019, 09:54:49 AM »
Hey the windscreen has LS218 on it in the one shot.   It looks like the same bike in all shots.  Not even a Strike?
Is this the South Africa guy?
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Re: Lightning's first Strike (photos!)
« Reply #7 on: September 17, 2019, 01:14:10 PM »
@NEW2elec

The text LS218 is on the dude's arm behind the windscreen.
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Re: Lightning's first Strike (photos!)
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2019, 07:14:48 PM »
Ok I see it now, thanks.  The idea of LS218 on a sleeve never entered my mind.
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Re: Lightning's first Strike (photos!)
« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2019, 02:02:48 AM »
Quote from: alko on September 17, 2019, 07:14:52 AM
Any word on delivery date for yours?

I'm giving them time to sort out the charging (it seems like this bike only has a J1772 port) and I also won't be back in California until January.  I need to test ride it before buying it, so sadly I have to wait.  It's torture to see someone riding one around, but also a good sign that the company is selling them now  ;D Now the real test for them is selling a 2nd one.
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Re: Lightning's first Strike (photos!)
« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2019, 02:43:08 AM »
Quote from: mistasam on September 18, 2019, 02:02:48 AM
Now the real test for them is selling a 2nd one.

Amen. One delivery does not a production lot make. Still not much to see here...though anything at all is a vast improvement!
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Re: Lightning's first Strike (photos!)
« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2019, 05:23:26 AM »
I thought the Strike Carbon edition was supposed to have all of the available options. Maybe CCS isn't an option now? I compared photos and it sure doesn't look like it has CCS.

But delivering only one bike isn't a good sign. Of course that is assuming there is actually a factory with a production line like we have been lead to believe. Would think that multiple bikes would have been shipped at one time. At least a few to get in the hands of the motorcycle press but maybe there is a reason Hatfield doesn't want to do this. Lightning sure has a different way of doing business!
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Re: Lightning's first Strike (photos!)
« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2019, 09:22:53 AM »
OK - now that the Strike is on the street - I'm talking to YOU - GUY THAT RODE IT HOME - What's it like?
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Re: Lightning's first Strike (photos!)
« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2019, 07:58:20 PM »
Quote from: oobflyer on September 18, 2019, 09:22:53 AM
OK - now that the Strike is on the street - I'm talking to YOU - GUY THAT RODE IT HOME - What's it like?

You mean rode it back to the Lightning factory from San Francisco to San Jose - at 35 mph on El Camino Real.  ;)
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Re: Lightning's first Strike (photos!)
« Reply #14 on: September 18, 2019, 08:21:16 PM »
I saw on their website they have a clarification about shipping.  The "reservation" is free shipping.  The motorcycle shipping is on the buyer.
So you won't need to pay for any of those damn email stamps when you send in a reservation so that's good.   ;)
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