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Bhud World Chat Champion
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It's anyone's guess what will happen. But it's reasonable to expect that things are going to happen and the goalposts will move.
Optimistic view: petrol motorcycles are already a rare sight, and the old ones are ever rarer in use, and policy planners don't think about them or include them in increasingly stringent local restrictions as they're such a tiny proportion of road traffic and nobody's really using things like old 2-strokes for commuting in cities anyway.
Pessimistic view: petrol motorcycles will get the squeeze because of ideology-driven reasons.
Personally, I would sooner spend new-bike money on an old bike I really want than on a new one which I don't really understand or recognise as a thing that will give me the experience I want from it. A pristine GPZ750 over a brand new Z900, any day. I get enough hi-tech stuff all around me in my life without bikes belonging to that world too. That's just my personal preference. So I'd go for the Euro 3 "dream bike", any day of the week.
However, I don't know what will happen, so if you buy that Euro 3 bike (probably an early 2000s bike), don't blame me if something adverse happens. Of course, common bikes have to much rarer for the "optimistic" perspective to realise itself in the future. So, if within the next few years we're still seeing daily commuters on old Bandits and such, then things aren't looking good. Nobody thinks about banning steam-powered cars from the roads, do they. That's because you just don't see them being used on the roads in the towns and cities during the rush hour. That's my thinking, even though it might be a bit too optimistic. |
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