Electric MX motorcycles silent or not?

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Hope they'll make noise otherwise; we will be stuck with silent machines. Alta was silent as is Stark. Seems like a huge miss to me if they'll continue to be silent.
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devotid 10/17/2022 1:32pm
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Please make it stop.....

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Sounds lame to me. Something I’d either turn off or remove anyway.
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I'd rather them make no noise at all than some dumb band-aid.
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GrapeApe 10/17/2022 1:34pm
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No, they won't have a speaker. Dafuq?
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#434 10/17/2022 1:37pm
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The cool thing to me about motocross bikes was always, that they didn’t have any unnecessary s..t mounted to them!
And what does the loudspeaker do? Play Beethoven‘s 9th while you’re riding or make a fool out of yourself with engine noises?
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Johnny Ringo 10/17/2022 1:39pm
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I hope so, playing Ride the Lightning on repeat
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Leave Us To wrote:
Hope they'll make noise otherwise; we will be stuck with silent machines. Alta was silent as is Stark. Seems like a huge miss to me if...
Hope they'll make noise otherwise; we will be stuck with silent machines. Alta was silent as is Stark. Seems like a huge miss to me if they'll continue to be silent.
It would be incredibly lame if they did.
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Leave Us To 10/17/2022 1:47pm
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I think electric motorcycles that are silent are lame. Here is a Tesla with sound.

Have to believe if the OEMs agreed to a speaker option like they have done with the swappable battery backs they could get the price and the weight down.
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mxrose3 10/17/2022 1:50pm
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it would just be more unnecessary battery drain IMO. I guess you want lights on it too?
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The size and weight the speaker would need to be to be audible would be huge. Talk about unnecessary weight. All you people acting like the sound of a dirtbike is the holy grail is hilarious. Some many benefits to bikes being quieter.
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RaceFace58 10/17/2022 1:53pm
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That would be awesome! You could make the bike like in the movies switching back and forth between 2 strokes and 4 strokes.
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soggy 10/17/2022 1:56pm
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That would be awesome! You could make the bike like in the movies switching back and forth between 2 strokes and 4 strokes.
Yea and put a fucking baseball card in your spokes too ! My god you guys that want this are fucking lame.
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The whine of MotoE bikes sounds like a star wars TIE fighter and the racing is incredibly close. Artificial sound is lamer than no sound.
https://youtu.be/RpSdD4wYEAQ
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Soundtrack available as an option for Stark bikes coming soon....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NgSZ8sjDgU

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Naah, imma put a two stroke exhaust on it and then make it sound like a four stroke just to confuse the competition when they are passing me.
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soggy wrote:
The size and weight the speaker would need to be to be audible would be huge. Talk about unnecessary weight. All you people acting like the...
The size and weight the speaker would need to be to be audible would be huge. Talk about unnecessary weight. All you people acting like the sound of a dirtbike is the holy grail is hilarious. Some many benefits to bikes being quieter.
"All you people acting like the sound of a dirtbike is the holy grail is hilarious. Some many benefits to bikes being quieter."

Says you. No sound is going to be boring as f**k for spectators. If you say otherwise, you're delusional.

No...I don't want a speaker either....if there's anything lamer than silence, it's sound effects.

****

Replace this sound with the soothing electric toaster sound of: weeee weeee weee and suspension clacking.

YAWN.....

https://youtu.be/10J-boEsRSM



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Leave Us To 10/17/2022 2:12pm
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soggy wrote:
Yea and put a fucking baseball card in your spokes too ! My god you guys that want this are fucking lame.
Electric motorcycles suck because they're quiet.
Electric motorcycles suck if they have a speaker.

People who just complain to be complaining are lame but welcome to Vital MX 2022.
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SmokinJoe439 10/17/2022 2:24pm
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Now the wheelie boys can bump music too they balance the bike out
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soggy 10/17/2022 2:26pm
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soggy wrote:
The size and weight the speaker would need to be to be audible would be huge. Talk about unnecessary weight. All you people acting like the...
The size and weight the speaker would need to be to be audible would be huge. Talk about unnecessary weight. All you people acting like the sound of a dirtbike is the holy grail is hilarious. Some many benefits to bikes being quieter.
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[i]"All you people acting like the sound of a dirtbike is the holy grail is hilarious. Some many benefits to bikes being quieter."[/i] Says you. No...
"All you people acting like the sound of a dirtbike is the holy grail is hilarious. Some many benefits to bikes being quieter."

Says you. No sound is going to be boring as f**k for spectators. If you say otherwise, you're delusional.

No...I don't want a speaker either....if there's anything lamer than silence, it's sound effects.

****

Replace this sound with the soothing electric toaster sound of: weeee weeee weee and suspension clacking.

YAWN.....

https://youtu.be/10J-boEsRSM



The wsx broadcast had no to very little bike sound I didn’t hear anyone even mention it.


And if your in stadium with your buddies you’d actually be able to talk to each other during the race. Rather then just yell at each other and nod like you heard them.

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I wish the mods would keep Ebike shit out of the Moto forum. Move it to the electric section. Better yet everyone post a what premix/race gas/etc do you run in the ebike forum. The day the pros race them its fine. We are not there.
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I wish the mods would keep Ebike shit out of the Moto forum. Move it to the electric section. Better yet everyone post a what premix/race...
I wish the mods would keep Ebike shit out of the Moto forum. Move it to the electric section. Better yet everyone post a what premix/race gas/etc do you run in the ebike forum. The day the pros race them its fine. We are not there.
Snowflake comment of the week.
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if they do it will be a two stroke sound for sure!
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GForce MMG wrote:
I wish the mods would keep Ebike shit out of the Moto forum. Move it to the electric section. Better yet everyone post a what premix/race...
I wish the mods would keep Ebike shit out of the Moto forum. Move it to the electric section. Better yet everyone post a what premix/race gas/etc do you run in the ebike forum. The day the pros race them its fine. We are not there.
I wish people who aren't interested in the topic would just scroll past since it is quicker than taking the time to complain.
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GForce MMG wrote:
I wish the mods would keep Ebike shit out of the Moto forum. Move it to the electric section. Better yet everyone post a what premix/race...
I wish the mods would keep Ebike shit out of the Moto forum. Move it to the electric section. Better yet everyone post a what premix/race gas/etc do you run in the ebike forum. The day the pros race them its fine. We are not there.
Uour right, everyone whining about e-motos should go post premix stuff in the electric forum, that would be an epic own!
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soggy 10/17/2022 2:38pm
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GForce MMG wrote:
I wish the mods would keep Ebike shit out of the Moto forum. Move it to the electric section. Better yet everyone post a what premix/race...
I wish the mods would keep Ebike shit out of the Moto forum. Move it to the electric section. Better yet everyone post a what premix/race gas/etc do you run in the ebike forum. The day the pros race them its fine. We are not there.
early wrote:
Uour right, everyone whining about e-motos should go post premix stuff in the electric forum, that would be an epic own!
Yea so epic 🙄. It would probably break vital.
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Dave v3.0 10/17/2022 2:38pm
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Why not? There's a whole aftermarket making them for TeslasLaughing

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The real Sasquatch 10/17/2022 3:02pm
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There is a youtuber building an electric Harley and he is adding on a sound system that will play the Harley guys from South Park making engine noises with their mouths. I personally wouldn't want a speaker on mine. But it could be fun for some situations. Hook up a horn that plays a 450 bouncing off the rev limiter so you can let people know you are behind them. And if there shouldn't be any Electric MX bike posts in the Moto section , they should also not allow 2 strokes talk either . Electric MX bikes are getting to the point where the YZ400 was. The Varg might be the bike that changes everything like that YZ400. Or maybe it will be the next Electric bike. But there are enough advantages to electric as far as performance, Pro's on E bikes will happen soon. Unless all the stuff that people have said about the Varg that have ridden it are all making stuff up, the Varg could be the bike. I bet the aftermarket will make sound systems for them bikes if there is a demand. Many companies make sound systems for UTV'S and ATV's . I think it would be kinda cheese to have one playing engine sounds , unless it was able to sound real. then maybe . The Varg is not totally silent, I wonder what 40 of them will sound like. Might end up being some high pitch sound at the start as they are all wideopen together.
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Juck 10/17/2022 3:27pm
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Impractical to have a speaker but it would be good if they made some sort of loud noise so you could hear them on the track. Probably gonna have a lot more people crossing over into each other when you can't hear the bikes. That's really my only major concern in terms of an e-bike future.
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