European Law to limit new vehicle speed to 101mph?

[Andy C]

I think this wouldnt be as bad as everyone makes out if im honest.

When i had my SV i frequently topped it out on duel carriage ways and was a laugh. It was twice the power of my S4 now and a bit more. I thought going to 33bhp would suck. To be honest it really doesnt effect me as much as you would think. I can still out accelerate most cars and the only use of the extra hourses are for hooning if we're being honest.

I cant think of one valid reason why any bike on the road need more power than ~33bhp on the road. I think it would be a horrid law to come into action but there really isn't any justification for have 160bhp bikes on the road at all. The extra power must cause a lot of extra accidents as 33bhp is quite tame (not that i have rode a 160bhp bike). Well apart from manufacturers are going to lose out on lots of UK trade but to the government this isnt a valid reason IMO.
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[faddius]

Motorcycles are a form of transport, particularly for young people.

Its rich to claim that theyre not, as im sorry, us young people cant afford £3500 car insurance. Well at least not the ones who have to work for what they want. I can insure a hayabusa for less than that at 18.

They wont introduce a speed limiter anyway - all the manufacturers would refuse because of the costs involved, and they would probably want all the old vehicles to come in to be restricted hence more cost. Itd be a stupid move to stop imports of cars and bikes - well there again, Gordon Brown is coming in.

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[JAMSXR]

Everyone saying that it should not matter, because the speed limits are 70 and we should not go over 100 . I strongly disagree i will regulaly do 150+ down the A3 and so will alot of other sportsbike riders! Yer im young but its part of the buzz and thrill i get from owning a bike. Their are also alot of bikers in their 40's+ who will not like this idea, anyway this will never happen!
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[lilredmachine]

Bikes are shit for economy and emissions. Plus think of it this way, your average litre superbike will weigh (sake of argument) 180kg. Your average litre car will weigh say a ton. That means that for the car to have a similar size engine for it's weight you would need a circa 6 litre engine, and have it in the same state of tune (180hp/litre at the crank) you would end up with over a thousand horsepower. Then take all the seats out apart from the drivers. Imagine that car's fuel economy and emissions per person. It's just not feasible to argue that (those partcular) bikes are a necessary form of transport.

I know it's an extreme example, but even those riding 'economical' GPZ 550 etc. have to realise that their 60-70mpg bikes will only ever carry them whilst doing it, and even the addition of a pillion passenger (thus splitting the emissions between them) will cause that to plummet.

The only really efficient bikes are bikes such as the CG and MZ sm that I had.

Before you jump on me as anti-bike or anti performance, there's a pretty damn close model of the hypothetical car mentioned above sat in the garage, and my DR350 has only ever managed 40mpg
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[thinkingabout...]

Most cars, vans and lorries are carrying one person. Efficiency for a given pound of metal is not relevant. A car has to halt continually meaning that one person burns more fuel to no great benefit. Too few improvements have been made in regard to fuel economy, but given that they will do a given journey in one third of the time, it does not matter. It is a matter of how much fuel is needed to move someone from A to B. The bike wins in that regard.

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[Kickstart]

Hi

As above. Fuel consumption pretty much only affect CO2 emissions (which are basically directly proportional for a particular fuel). The rest are down to other factors. For example oxides of nitrogen are largly created by high combustion temperatures, often fixed by recirculating some of the exhaust gases back into the engine.

All the best

Keith
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[chris-red]

I would hate for this to happen but at the end of the day it's fair enough. We shouldn't be doing over a ton and at least this way we have abit of extra power incase we need to get out of trouble on the motorway. It would also mean my back spocket getting a hell of alot bigger welcome to wheelie country.
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[Jeneric]

Just as a side note, the guy proposing this (now moot) bill was also lobbying to ban the sales of automobiles (of all descriptions) based on power/performance. Ie, Ferrari would have to have adverts banging on about their lovely interior upholstery instead of what mahusive engine is under the bonnet. Not too sure if this also got rejected but its yet another "nanny state" initiative that scares the f*ck outa me.
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[ColdInsomnia]

Disgusting.

I've been riding a bike for 18 months now, and I can safely bet that I'm a better rider than any of the selfish bureaucrats in Europe.

They've got absolutely no right to be messing in something that they understand very little about.
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[Ravage]

This is absolutely pointless what they should do is up the speed limit for motorbikes because they have a better stopping distance to a car and are capable of a higher speed more safely
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[Ravage]

good point i was thinking in terms of the weight of a bike compared to a car its velocity requires more work to slow down due to being heavier that would vary, alot of things i didn't consider though
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[phk6]

ive never seen a car with 1.5 people in it.

an di hope i never do i mean that would be quite sick
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