2023 BMW CE 04 - DM Review | Test Ride 

Thank you for nailing it describing how the naysayers are not the target market. I have owned a CE 04 for 2 years. The price wasn’t a major consideration for me. I am also not even a commuter and I have a top end ADV bike that I’ve ridden month long trips on. The CE 04 is just absolutely the most fun on two wheels I’ve ever had. It looks awesome, sounds awesome, pulls hard off the line, has a cavernous storage area hidden in the body. It’s just really fun and interesting. I enjoy finding chargers and planning routes that require me to find new places to stop and I have had countless adventures and conversations because of it I’d never have on a typical scooter or motorcycle. It’s so much more than the spec sheet that can only be appreciated by living with one awhile. And it simply… isn’t for everyone. Never was and never will be. But it definitely is for me and a cadre of others.

I have one, light white and man it’s the best motorcycle i have owned. It has it’s downside but works for me everyday and my wife loves it riding passenger, no heat and no jerking 🦄🦄🦄🦄

You are 1000% dead on. I stopped counting how many motorcycles I own. Not have owned, but currently own. I have more motorcycles than there are days in a month. The gambit. Without question, my CE04 is my favorite bike. Nothing even comes close. It’s outrageously expensive but every once in a while, you get what you pay for. This thing is outrageously stupid fun to ride! It’s an amusement park on two wheels. Trust me.

I can imagine how pleasant the silence is while riding.

The bike is downright awesome. Love the experience after around 3000 miles on it in GA. After so much positive attention everywhere, I have been thinking about handing out brochures at red traffic lights. So many people are curiously asking me.

Thanks for the review. Looked this up because I'm interested. It accelerates quickly!

It's cool. I do wish the range was a bit better. But, as someone who uses an ebike and a hinda navi for my work commutes in a large downtown city, I can appreciate it. Fast charging options here are great, hopefully the power grid gets upgraded as well. For 16k, I'd probably grab something else. But I enjoy idea of the CE 04

I have the gray one. Use it everyday. Almost never have to go to a public charger. Current mileage 18.000km (11.185 miles) The perfect everyday commuter

12:24 It hasn't wireless charging. It has an USB-C outlet for charging and the charging bay is cooled by a fan. The connection of the phone to the screen is wireless. 21:51 Absolutely! The CE 04 actually is the one and only electric scooter above the 125cc-class which you can buy new. Worldwide! If You prefer cheap and small scooters, you still have a wide survey. There are produced already about 9000 pcs, just after less than 2 years. (The french love it...)

You are in my neighborhood. Lots of well-visited streets.

I'm really surprised Honda and Yamaha is avoiding this market or just really slow at it. I applaud BMW for taking a step forward.

That v10f will be perpetually more cost effective. That bike looks so much fun though!!

Top. Scooter❤😊

Can't wait for Honda to offer decent Electric bikes! Kawasakis first offerings aren't good enough.

Genuinely curious... is it actually legal to drive right up between vehicles stopped at a red light, on the center line? Seems odd because you are considered another vehicle on the road, so do you not have to follow the typical "rules of the road" in California?

Electric scooters and motorcycles is the future. Electric is more suited for scooters and motorcycles more then electric cars. Meaning, electric cars advantage over gas cars is mainly no gas, obviously. But electric scooters and motorcycles has way more huge advantages, such as no clutch repairs or buying new clutches when they go out, no oil changes, no noise. So theres way more advantages to electric bikes then electric cars. My only issue is electric bikes and scooters are still like 5 to 10 years max away from being completely to the level to destroy gasoline motorcycles snd scooters and make them obsolete . ✌️

What is inconvenient about going to a petrol/gas station occcasionally as opposed to having to charge an electric bike up every day? I don't see the benefit of quietness, either. Having said all this, I'd like one as a second bike, the first bike being an ICE one.

Clutch less shift on ur Petro bike, and the passanger will think she is on an automatic

So afraid to pull the trigger not due to range anxiety but reliability anxiety. It would make so much since for my lifestyle. But BMW isn’t known for reliability in their ICE vehicles so I can imagine the horror story that would come with this.

$15K... aaaand, I'm out.

Not convenient for apartment dwellers