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Its simply amazing Harley Davidson hasnt used their technology and brought it over to some kind of off road motorcycle.
The SX races looked empty as well.
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It brings in potentially different sponsors that normally wouldn't be in MX, plus open the gates for more privateers to race.
Little leagues. Another class to sandbag. Everybody gets a trophy.
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My Alta is, hands down, the best motocross bike I have ever owned, period. I just got my suspension back today from Lainer Suspension and the bike is absolutely dialed. I'm still grinning from my ride today.
Gimme a 125 weight bike with a 450 engine
Gimme an air shock, so I don't have to change springs.
Gimme a portable solar panel to charge fhe bike in between motos
Gimme a ford f150 electric to haul it around in.
I'll gladly never drop off used oil, buy gas and work on engines ever again
Instead of being so negative, imagine where we could have motocross tracks and racing if the bikes where silent.
I love my 350 too so it's all a day dream anyway.
Racing will still be racing. But it's going to be different.
I'm going to mount a speaker on my ebike where the silencer would be and run a 125 sound
I wonder if Motorcycles are going to be subject to that - they are, after all, vehicles. But, regulations have been generally, a few years later on MCs, than those applied to Cars and Trucks in the EU.
Me, I was putting money aside for an Alta. And am still doing so for whatever is to come, from major manufacturers. I'll keep my ICE bikes, but for my local riding, something that only 'whirs', will allow me to still ride where I have for over 5 decades now. Though, it will still probably looked on as evil by the enviro wackos, and anti fun brigade.
That said, by 2035, market forces will have taken over well before.
Look at performance, no production vehicle accelerates as fast as a tesla.
Look at the new f150. Does any production full size pickup do 0 to 60 in 4.5 seconds? Does any full size have independent rear suspension along with an engine bay that can store several suitcases?
The only thing that new f150 can't do is drive 600 miles on q charge, like my duramax 3.0 will do on a tank of diesel, but I am sure itwon't be long until they can. Not sure any of the other gas pickups will do 600 per tank either.
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I've no problem with EVs - as I said, my next new bike purchase will almost certainly be an Electric bike, if / when what I want becomes available. And, I'll keep my ICE bikes and other ICE vehicles. That smoking old Frankenstein of a bike in my Avatar, is going to the grave with me - well, no, it's being passed onto friends that will love it after I'm gone.
I look at it this way ( while recognizing that I'm probably well, well off base) - EVs become predominant, means Fuel for our ICEs remains available....... yep, a silly, naïve hope, but you've got to try to look on the bright side, just a bit.
Now in the world of enduro, electric might take a longer time to reach the ranges desired
Maybe the right answer is to have an electric bike class with comparable power to a 125? Start the rookies on that, develop the bikes, then spec the premier electric bikes.
The OEM's will not support a 125, maybe they will support an entry-level electric bike that can compete on a true SX track? It gives them a chance to "right-size" the bikes power to bridge the gap between an 80/110 and a 250f.
Hell, maybe you make a chassis that will accept different size electric motors, or provide a spec motor/electric package that fits in an OEM-provided chassis? That seems like a good opportunity for the OEM's to get together and help tone down the bikes a bit. It's obvious that the bikes are getting out of hand for anyone under "expert" level.
I don't think Manufacturers will give a sh*t about the above, they will produce fast fun bikes that will blow the doors of ICE engines within the next 10years... is it in 3 or 9, I have no idea.
I've said it in separate threds sometimes, me riding motocross is for the joy of the sport, not doing those g*d d*mn engine rebuilds, I hate it that I have a new coming up within 10-20h again
Love how quiet they are for certain areas, but enormous amount of wonky power does not make for a great track bike.... then the recharge and cool down times...... electric does have its place... but actually racing MX might not be one of them....
And what happens when the E-moto is the fastest race in the schedule? Does the ‘e’ race become the premier class? And that’s where the sponsors will want to go, and then that’s where the riders will want to go, then there’s less interest in the 250 & 450 races, so they get dropped and there we are… arrived in the same place anyway.
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