America’s largest motorcycle company and its most successful manufacturer of electric motorcycles are going head-to-head with a pair of battery-powered street bikes. Zero Motorcycles has started deliveries of the Zero SR/F, the fastest and most powerful electric machine yet from the 13-year-old Scotts Valley, Calif., company. On a half-day ride up and down San Gabriel Canyon Road in Azusa, I found the electric bike electrifying. Harlan Flagg, whose retail shop Hollywood Electrics is the largest seller of electric motorcycles in the country, said that he’s selling SR/Fs at a fast clip. “When the largest motorcycle company in the U.S. enters the market, it legitimizes what we’ve doing for the last decade.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 13, 2019 13:52 UTC