I rode the BMW CE 04 and it got me excited about the future of electric motorbikes

As an individual with a garage that is creaking under the weight of leaky, often broken Japanese motorcycles from the 1970s, I’m probably the last person the BMW CE 04 is marketed at. Call me old-fashioned, but I love the sound of an inline-four engine and actively seek out the smell of two-strokes just so I can have a good sniff.