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Leg 5: Sanford to Chapel Hill (The Final Leg!) 39 miles, 75 minutes riding, 5 minutes charging A couple of miles down the road, I blindly follow the GPS instructions onto US-1, a 70mph road. "Fuck!". I didn't plan on those sort of speeds. You see, needlessly high-speed travel is bad news on an...

Leg 4: Carthage to Sanford 20 miles, 47 minutes of riding, 37 minutes of charging I set the BMW navigation app to "Winding route" again and set my sights toward Sanford. I know from experience that Downtown Sanford Horner Square has a wonderfully convenient and free charger, and from here...

Leg 3: Robbins to Carthage (ADV lunch!) 18 miles, 35 minutes of riding, 0 minutes of charging I headed to Carthage via Plank Rd and Hwy 27, which were that's exciting. Sometimes the "Windy" mode on the BMW Connected software delivers, but most of the time the routes are fairly pedestrian...

Leg 2: Pittsboro to Goldston to Robbins 38 miles, 1 hour of riding, 1 hour of charging Goldston is a straight shot via 902 & Goldston-Pittsboro road: a boring route, but at least the road conditions were good. Turning off at Lancaster Dr, I spotted a cemetery behind Goldston...

A few Saturdays ago, I ventured to central North Carolina to join the local ADVrider crew for lunch as part of the confusingly named "Eastern Nc Advrider Dinner" thread. I took my trusty BMW CE-04 along - a quirky urban electric scooter (and the most fun I’ve had on two wheels). While the trip...

IMHO, it's probably a waste of time to optimize the state of charge on the BMW CE-04, as the scooter already manages spare capacity behind the scenes. The battery management unit only allows you to charge 8.5 kWh of the 8.9 kWh battery, presumably to preserve the lifetime of the battery. I...

I'm happy to report that my most recent Project: Electric Jerrycan experiment was a wild success! The Jackery 1000, effectively an oversized USB power bank, was able to add 0.75Kwh (9%) of charge to the CE-04 over 44 minutes. My average range is 62.8 miles (101km), so that's enough juice to...

@lt_fukai - I steered away from top-case options as the manual lists a maximum of 5kg (11 lbs), whereas the helmet compartment is 8 kg (18 lbs). I see that the EcoFlow has an interesting-looking option in the EcoFlow RIVER 2 Pro, which is a little smaller (20% less battery) and cheaper than the...

@Mitleider - See https://www.bmw-scooters.com/index.php?threads/service-reminder-reset.2541/

As promised, here are my full instructions for replacing the indicator light on the BMW CE 04: https://unfinished.bike/bmw-ce-04-indicator-replacement-procedure

I don't know about the plugs sold in AU, but I can confirm that the CE 04 charges plenty fast on single-phase 240V at 30A: most houses in the United States only have single-phase 240V. Just so you are aware, there is nothing magical about the BMW charger cable - you can use whatever J1772 cable...

@Mitleider - Nah, I chalk this breakage up to my own stupidity. If the indicator had just "broken by itself", I'd have gotten it replaced under warranty. My dealer is a 3-hour round trip anyways, so getting this fixed would have taken 4-5 hours out of my day either way.

Little update: altogether, the job requires removal/reinstallation of 24 bolts: T25, T30, and T50 Torx. It took me about 5 hours with copious notes and photos, so consider this a 4-hour job the first time, and maybe 90 minutes if you've done it before. One missing bit of information was the...

I'm about 3 hours into this "1-hour" job, and the steps seem accurate, though somewhat incomplete. You'll need T50 wrenches for the wheel, T25 for most of the body work, though there is a handful of stray T30 bolts. Notably, it doesn't mention how to get the light wired through the license...

My guess is that this code (0701) is related to the locked-down "low-output" variant of the CE 04 that is sold for markets that have multiple tiers of motorcycle licensing. For example, in the EU the BMW CE 04 is sold with 130km (80 miles) of range for the A2-compliant model and 100km (60miles)...

I found an interesting video where someone worked around the same issue, albeit with an inverter and a Nissan Leaf charger cable: My current thought is taking apart a portable GFCI outlet and running a ground clip to wherever BMW says the grounded location on the BMW CE 04 is. I'll run the...

Has anyone found an electrical diagram for the BMW CE 04? I am curious to discover what I should use as a grounding point. I assume it's some point of the frame, but it'd be nice to know BMW's take on it. For reference, this is to support...

Nice find! I know this is a humor thread, but after 1000 miles, I don't find the CE 04 too expensive for what it is either! As someone who is solidly against investing in combustion engines, I looked at what the "next step up" is (for me, this means compatibility with DC fast chargers & more...

I was a little confused as I know of at least four Facebook CE 04 groups, so it took a little searching, but I found the instructions at https://www.facebook.com/groups/417926070093644/posts/598112305408352/ - Just in case it disappears later, I'm going to paste the instructions from Guru...

Wait, what the actual fuck? I figured that at worst this would be a 45-minute job. If you stumble into those instructions again, I would love to see them!