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Post by Polokid69 » Thu Apr 07, 2016 8:10 am

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One I thought strange about bikes going to water cooling, aren't all bikes water cooled and have been for a while ?
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Post by fixxervi6 » Thu Apr 07, 2016 8:59 am

Polokid69 wrote:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2016/03/3 ... t_facebook

One I thought strange about bikes going to water cooling, aren't all bikes water cooled and have been for a while ?
Nope, the boxer motor is just now getting water cooling and several models of it are still air cooled.

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Post by Polokid69 » Thu Apr 07, 2016 9:24 am

how many bikes are ride-by-wire ?
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Post by fixxervi6 » Thu Apr 07, 2016 9:26 am

Polokid69 wrote:how many bikes are ride-by-wire ?
A lot more now but a few years ago, not many. BMW, and Yamaha I think were it.
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Post by DarcShadow » Thu Apr 07, 2016 9:35 am

The only techs mentioned there that are really futuristic are the Helmet, and the stability control, although both have been around for awhile, just not available on the street yet. Liquid cooling is so old tech, (first used on a motorcycle in 1908) surprised they didn't list fuel injection, it's only been around for 16 years or so.
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Post by DemonDuck » Thu Apr 07, 2016 10:03 am

Stability control is already on the BMW and a few others I think and that was 2012 so probably more by now. Maybe a little different but the same idea and function.
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Post by Polokid69 » Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:09 am

I guess to the person that wrote the article liquid cooling seemed futuristic
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Post by fixxervi6 » Thu Apr 07, 2016 11:21 am

Polokid69 wrote:I guess to the person that wrote the article liquid cooling seemed futuristic
Fly by wire really isn't either, that's been around a while.
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Post by JeffStrom » Thu Apr 07, 2016 10:39 pm

fixxervi6 wrote:
Fly by wire really isn't either, that's been around a while.
Since at least the mid '70s

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