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A SOUND RIDE APART FROM RANGE ANXIETY
Daily Express
|September 27, 2025
For most bikers, the sound is a visceral part of the riding pleasure, whether it’s the heartbeat of a single, the syncopated throb of a V-twin, the sweet whine of a triple, or the unmitigated howl of an inline four at full chat.
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But here’s the thing - after only 20 minutes of wafting along on an electric machine in serene and seamless bliss, you stop at traffic lights, a noisy petrol bike pulls up alongside, and you think how primitive and last century it is.
Which is one of the reasons why I made the Zero DSR/X machine my Bike of the Year in 2022.
The acceleration was stunning, the handling precise, and riding it off-road even in some pretty “technical” sections was a doddle - even for an off-road idiot like me ~ with a smooth and seamless delivery of power and no concerns about stalling it or deciding which gear to be in.
The DSR/X was Zero’s adventure offering, although with the limited range of all electric bikes, that was a bit of an oxymoron. Zero claimed it had a range of 180 miles in urban use, 85 on the open road and 115 for combined use.
With the optional £3,055 Power Tank, the company claims 222 miles is possible, but with machines such as the BMW GS Adventure having a range of up to 372 miles, even that didn't really cut it in the adventure market, so the DSR/X never took off.
Cette histoire est tirée de l'édition September 27, 2025 de Daily Express.
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