2023 BMW CE 04 - DM Review | Test Ride

The BMW CE 04 isn't going to fit every need for every person. But for a commuter bike or a fun errand runner, it's remarkably good. And it looks like the future.
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[@Winter-zv1dv]

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.

[@theR0ck]

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 🦄🦄🦄🦄

[@Romiman1]

The same to me. After 11 ICE-bikes (50-1000ccm; 2.4-100hp) I have more fun to drive than ever before...

[@Bobbgeane]

Hope after three months yours is not in the repair shop like mine has been for 16 days now.

[@honestreviewer3283]

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

[@j.andrewwrinkle2172]

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.

[@DailyMotor]

The N+1 rule taken to the extreme!

[@boergedeist8387]

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.

[@ancoloco]

I can imagine how pleasant the silence is while riding.

[@cool_breeze_actual9643]

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

[@maxmayer62]

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

[@Romiman1]

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...)

[@PrestonBannister]

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

[@johndoe3485]

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 . ✌️

[@Matt369oi]

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.

[@lawlaxinaakayourfavorite]

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

[@KirkKreifels]

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

[@DailyMotor]

Lol, the Motocompacto isn't enough for you??

[@Bobbgeane]

BMW isn't either. Mine has been in the repair shop for 16 days now.

[@user-sw2lv3zp6o]

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.

[@thesingsings8111]

my neighbours love my silent motorcycle, also u can listen to music with headphones at low volume with a silent bike and not make yourself deaf. Pushing a plug into a bike is a tad more convenient than going to a petrol station, surely.

[@user-sw2lv3zp6o]

@@thesingsings8111 It depends how often you have to charge the machine. Sounds like every day compared to twice a week in the petrol station. That's what it would be for my 155cc scooter which is what I run around on. It isn't the engine noise which makes the rider deaf, it's the wind noise. The CE 04 is some bike, though.

[@greatestsportslegends]

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?

[@ziptic]

Lane splitting (driving between vehicles) and filtering (waiting between the vehicles stopped at an intersection) is legal in Calif. There are other restrictions such safety issues and speed (can't drive faster than 10mph above the speed those vehicles are doing (at the time I was there)). Anyone planning on splitting, please read the law, don't take my word for it. 👍

[@thesingsings8111]

as of 2014 lane splitting became legal in australia too

[@k8for]

Top. Scooter❤😊

[@OnYoMata38]

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.

[@MTJoe406]

Three warranty though, which is pretty unheard of in the motorcycle world.

[@Bobbgeane]

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

[@BoopSnoot]

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

[@prd185]

Not convenient for apartment dwellers

[@thesingsings8111]

true, unless you have a carspace with power that isn't common power