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We're a lot closer to it than people think because the same shit gets repeated over and over on vital ad nauseum.
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Remember the Williams F1 car from Mansell with the active suspension it was unbeatable and very expensive and was forbidden to use after 2 years because there was no competition any more.
My suspension guy is a former WP development employee and was also testdriver so he have seen and tested a lot of new ideas.
The WP development department is/was located in Malden the Netherlands and produce also the special parts for the factory teams, the production for the custumer bikes is moved to Austria years ago.
All the "new things" have been developed and tested for years ago.
The most are not reliable enough (dirtbikes have a very high impact on the suspension so material problems) or is simply to expensive for commercial use.
Also the budget in the Mx are peanuts compare to the budgets of the road racing.
Kawasaki and Ducatie are mostly unbeatable Yamaha can follow them a little behind.
But the Honda Cbr is outdated
But in the British superbike they still win races just because electronic aren't allowed and ii's pure rider's skills, and not who have the best electronics. The topriders have all equal speed it's pure the bike.
E-MX to gain huge popularity. The younger set that are into electronic technology (all of them) have a real fascination with them, along with E-mtb. It ticks all the boxes, freedom, noise (lack of) and low maintenance apart from changing motor profiles by Bluetooth.😀 They have little interest in ICE engines. I was in a sports bar the other night and a replay of Ty Tremaine on an Alta in Endurocross was on and the dudes were loving it.
I’m 55 and love my two strokes, but it is coming if handled well by the manufacturers. Alta kind of fucked up.
Pit Row
I never heard of them before, but what raised my interest is the person behind it, Nina Deitermann. A quick google search reveals she was a couple of years at KTM as an R&D engineer in the electro mobility area.
They incorporate some neat functions. By app you can adjust power, get updates, remote servicing, ...
For roughly 3K, this is pretty interesting!
Enough people bitch about the cost of bikes here, as it is. Even with E Tech getting cheaper, Active suspension would add a quite some cost, to a bike. And, as good as the aforementioned companies E Suspension is on their Road Bikes, I don't think anyone has left it on for the IOM races, where, I think they could do so.
VVT is something I could see coming into 4t MXers / Enduro Bikes . Suzuki, BMW, Ducati and others have introduced mechanical / hydraulic VVT systems to their Street Superbikes to circumvent the Non Electric VVT rules in WSBK. Hell, Honda and Suzuki, at the least, had VVT type systems on various 400cc and 250cc 4t Road Bikes way back in the 90s.
The KTM E Freeride has been sold in some markets for a few years now - I've ridden them a few times in Europe. The desire, and wait, for me, is for when they apply it to EXC level bikes. For my local riding, such a thing would be perfect. I hope they, or Honda , or others, don't make the bloody things too expensive. You'd hope that far bigger companies ( well, KTM is still a minnow, compared to the Japanese companies, despite what some think) could make E bikes of real performance levels, and could sell them cheaper than the (bloody impressive) Altas. Economies Of Scale, and all that. Harleys E bike comes out shortly, but I think I read that it's going to be a $28,000 /29,000 USD bike. Take up on that, at that price, will be 'interesting'.
But slow the bikes down. Let amateurs (and consumers) show technique before trying to hit huge gaps and smearing themselves all over hospital wards.
You wife might have 2DDs but your flashlight has 2 D batteries.
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