Road bike innovations

[stevo as b4]

That Yamaha 900cc Alien is a cool thing though, because it'll appeal to a few well paid millenials who want to be different and are scared of bikes. It's got none of the merits of a useful trike and it's not going to be mainstream unless they sell 20 for every R1 world wide.

I understand why Chickenstrip doesn't feel anything but numb about electric bikes, but I'd like a go on a really good one. If in a few years you can have Fireblade performance and weight with a 150mile worst case scenario range for a price that's not more than the last of the ICE bikes then they'll have plenty of appeal.

It's took a while for me to realise that people like me are so far from the typical mainstream new bike buying public. I recently read a copy of Ride magazine and they talked about USB's Bluetooth and electronics most of the time. But then so do their readers.

People liking analogue old sports bikes and mad thrashing on Sundays are the slightly weird minority types and we're slowly dying out as is brand loyalty and antisocial antics. I've seen enough to have the memories too and that's also fine with me.

I watched a YouTube vid recently where some arrogant fucker with a subscriber following drives people's cars like a twat and films it for his channel. He featured a bloke who'd spent 20years building a V8 carb fed supercharged Ford Capri with about 350bhp. Most people said it was old fashioned crap and they'd much rather own a generic new Audi S5 Quattro because its got tech and driver modes etc. It sums up young people perfectly.!

[chickenstrip]

[Suntan Sid]

The technology for an electric sports bike is, simply, not good enough, at the moment.
Just have a look at TT Zero, you're lucky to get 3 finishers over a 1 lap, 37.73 mile, race, the majority of the bikes can't even manage 1 lap.
Even the bikes that do make it round can't run at full power for a whole lap, they'd run out of battery.
Unless there's a massive leap forward in battery technology, very soon, the only electric bikes you're going to see in your lifetime are going to have the performance of a moped or at best a, very, wheezy 125!
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