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and yes! Fortnine has a video of how Why Electric Motorcycles are Failing..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2zlYpy6QCM
Electric motorcycles are a niche, and i have seen some crazy offroad electric dirtbikes.
Would I buy one today?
Nope
15 years from now?
maybe
Harleys are underpowered because their customers don’t care. If they were they would have bought rice rockets to begin with. Harley isn’t selling performance, they’re selling nostalgia on 2 wheels and outlaw biker chic.
If pushrods are bad for performance, the engineers of the mid-engine Corvette didn’t get the memo. Because it makes almost 500 go-ponies on less than 400 cubes.
“ Fortnine has a video of how Why Electric Motorcycles are Failing..”
Look, I own an EV car and like it…as a commuter car.
An EV bike??? Loud pipes save lives. Mine was plenty loud and we modified my wife’s to make it loud. An electric motorcycle is more of an “organ donor machine” than the crotch rockets.
I would not buy an electric motorcycle. But then I don’t commute in a city by bike.
If I lived in Manila or Mumbai I would consider an electric bike
Read later.
As an aside, I am going to buy a Honda cb500x later this year (after I see some resolution of the current stock market's troubles). I live in a small town with lots of beautiful dirt roads in the countryside and want to ride them.
Before settling on the cb500x, I considered the KLR 650 and the Husqvarna Svartpilen 401. The love the KLR, but price and the thermobob/doohickey issues turned me off. The Svartpilen Husky is a beautiful little bike for the right price, but a little too small for riding a couple of 100 miles on highway (if I decided to spend the day at the beach).
Harley engines suck. BMW 1200 engines make more horse power and as much torque (136hp/105lb-ft) than a Harley 1800 engine (73hp/110lb-ft). Most bike motors do better than a Harley.
If you could deal with the cooling issue, Harley-Davidson engines would be great for a tractor or a generator.
Bike Ping! :-)
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I own a 09 Road King. Speed is not something I’m particularly interested in. It has enough power to get me out of the way when I need it to. Otherwise, I don’t really care. I don’t care what other folks ride. Ride what you like! Two-wheels good. Four-wheels bad!
Shorter stroke. More rpm. Less low end torque. More peak power. Same as it ever was.
People dont buy HDs for high performance.
I have a 170cc SYM scooter, a 2007 Honda ST1300 and just stumbled over a 2004 Electra-Glide with only 6,000 miles for cheap money. I live on the west coast of Florida. It’s heavy traffic and straight, flat roads near the coast, so the scooter is the perfect urban assault vehicle for that purpose. The ST1300 is ridiculously fast and reasonably comfortable, but I sold it yesterday.
The bat wing fairing, radio, saddlebags, tour pack, comfy seat, floorboards, heel-toe shifter and low seat height make the HD the one I always prefer for the inland and long distance rides. It was clear that the ST1300 was going to sit and gather dust. I sold my last Electra-Glide in 2015 and bought a Goldwing. It was a great motorcycle but bored me to tears.
The HD is also a tinkerer’s toy, just like guns and guitars. So I’ll be putting along at 75mph instead of 110 on the county roads in inland Florida and will still feel fresh after 700 mile days on the interstate farther north.