February might not be the best riding season, at least not in many areas of the Northern Hemisphere. But that hasn’t stopped Zero Motorcycles from announcing that it will unveil a new addition to its electric motorcycle line up next month: The Zero SR/S.
And we’re at it again.
Around this time last year, California-based Zero Motorcycles was dropping teasers for its upcoming new electric motorcycle, the Zero SR/F.
The Zero SR/F debuted as the fastest and most powerful model in Zero’s lineup. It used a new motor, the Z-Force 75-10, to create 82 kW (110 hp) of power and hit a top speed of 200 km/h (124 mph).
It added to Zero’s already expansive lineup including the Zero FX, FXS, S, SR, DS, and DSR models.
Now we’re learning there’s one more model, the Zero SR/S, that is ready to join the family.
Zero SR/S coming in February
We don’t know many details about the bike yet. Or to be more accurate, we don’t know any details about the bike yet other than the name: Zero SR/S.
The name alone would suggest that it is built on the SR/F platform. Zero’s playbook has generally been to produce on and off-road bikes on similar platforms, such as the FX and FXS, or the DSR and SR, where the former of each are off-road optimized despite being built on the same platform as the street bike.
The S in SR/S would tend to lend itself toward a street-oriented designation, but the SR/F is already a streetfighter motorcycle, and it doesn’t get much more street than that. Plus, the marketing images around the SR/S launch date all seem to show urban imagery such as bridges and metropolitan skylines.
We did see some spy shots of a fully faired Zero SR/F being tested last year out near Zero’s California headquarters, so there’s a good chance that we’re looking at a faster, faired version of the SR/F.
But at this point it’s too hard to say for sure, and we’ll have to wait for Zero to drip out more teasers.
