MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin

> Same thing in Australia. Just add exhaust brakes from semis, fart cannons on ricers
> and "sports" exhausts on clapped out six-cylinder sedans (and wagons and pickups
> "utes" as well) with chopped springs and you've got the whole thing covered.

Yeah, but exhaust brakes have a legitimate purpose, unlike the several of the other things. I used to have a modified car, but I kept the exhaust quiet - the scream from the cam gear was louder than the exhaust.

> I don't get why a two cylinder carburetor-based engine (how long has electronic fuel
> injection been around in cars now?) can even be thought of as a be-all-end-all
> ultimate design for motorcycles. Try cold-starting a normal everyday motorbike in the
> middle of winter, or a lawnmower for that matter (another useless, noisy, archaic
> design left practically untouched for nearly a century, regardless of whether it's
> 2-stroke or 4-stroke).

Modern performance bikes are fuel injected. A lot of the super-efficient scooters are fuel injected as well these days. Bikes like the Honda CB are traditional carburettor designs because they're incredibly cheap to keep producing and easy to tinker with at home. There will always be a market for that.

But as Smit says, the big V-twin hogs are built that way for tradition's sake. They're inefficient and impractical, but that's part of the attraction. It's what people want to be riding.

> Why can't bikes go electric instead of cars? That way the fags on their Harleys
> (thanks South Park for the definition) can start smelling their own asses in order to
> save the planet as well (thanks South Park again) until the smug cloud takes over the
> entire country (then we can dump them in New Zealand or wherever in order to revert
> back to normal).

Funny you'd ask, Harley is actually heading that way:
http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/24/583764...tric-motorcycle