nothing new. any thing you see on a bike will have been on a car since at least 2001 and controlled in the same way. piece o piss. :smile:
Piece of piss but so boring, sterile and dull. All modern cars look much the same and drive much the same. The awesome supercars are unobtainable and unusable on the roads because they can't overtake in traffic like we can. I find it impossible to get remotely excited by any car that is on sale today except the Landrover Defender ... and that is being killed off this year. I fear that bikes are heading the same way.
Largely agree with that sentiment but carwise an S1 Exige is an exception, fun-wise, pricewise, I overtake bikes in mine
Abs is very useful, maybe a quick shifter. I don't ride big power bikes so tc doesn't really make sense for me.
tuning is still doable like the bikes, but yer right. very little excites me car wise these days. i find the technology easier to diagnose in many ways, but can be cost prohibitive once they hit about 10-15years, as you have heard me bang on many times about the roads about mine a small car with a turbo can be a riot.fiat coupe turbo or even a tuned chinqucento sporting superb.
I've driven a Caterham on the road and that is similarly like a 4-wheel bike acceleration-wise but like all cars they are just too wide to do the kind of overtaking and filtering we can get away with on two wheels. In the end you just end-up sat in traffic most of the time. Totally pointless.
I did have a caterham super light on track last month and it is bike style acceleration. Was overtaking all sorts of high end cars. Still nothing that beats a bike for kicks though.
My gripe, and it was more relevant to cars than bikes until recently, is that if you add all of this technology that then makes them an economic write off after 10-15 years, as Fin says, are they really any better than more basic technology. But technology improves with time, is it just a learning curve we have to negotiate ?
60+mpg, considerably cleaner emmissions, good chance you will walk out of a high speed impact. electric windows. all good.
