I have found that at slow speeds there's more weight on my wrists than I'd like. It's a combination of my lower than average height and the ergonomics of the SR/S. To be fair to the SR/S almost every bike I've had in the last 20 years has had the same effect on me, my stately BMW tourer being the exception. So I usually fit handlebar risers to my bikes and that makes a world of difference.
The bars on the SR/S are tapered, being 28.6mm at the clamps to 22mm at the grips. Not knowing how much rise I would need I bought the Bike It modular kit from Infinity Motorcycles online, and had a chance to try them out over the weekend.
I was meeting up with friends in Wales for a walk up Cadair Idris, so had a 160 mile round trip to evaluate them. We stayed overnight locally so we could get an early start on the mountain.
The roads out that way are epic, and with perfect riding weather it was very hard to maintain right wrist discipline. Alas, no photos to capture the ride.
While we were prepping for the next day's walk in the pub, one of our host's neighbours had spotted the SR/S and come to give it a good look over. I think it'll be a while before Nick Sanders goes electric for a global circumnavigation, but like a lot of riders there's an interest in seeing how electric bikes are maturing.
The next morning at the Dôl Idris car park there was a lifeless SWARCO eVolt charger, and a parking bay marked up for electric vehicles. Hopefully there'll be charging available there soon.
We had a slow jaunt around the horseshoe to the summit of Cadair Idris, in what I've been assured was the best weather of the year, then back down for refreshments at the café, and retracing those amazing roads back to Shropshire.
The risers had a noticeable effect on my comfort, and crawling through towns in traffic at 20mph isn't so much of a pain in the wrists now. I might add one of the spacers to see if a little more height is better, but I think the effect is likely to be marginal.
In theory I could have ridden out to Machynlleth on one charge, used the Dragon/GeniePoint 22kW AC chargers there, and got home on a second charge. But to give myself more margin for exploiting the roads to their fullest I charged at the Tesco Pod Point chargers in Newtown on both the way out and back again.
