"David T. Ashley" <dta@e3ft.com> wrote in message
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> "Road Glidin' Don" <langkd_NO_SPAM@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> news:47d43658.499398457@shawnews.ed.shawcable.net. ..
>>>
>>>Oh God. Just make your fucking mind up, and buy anything. Stick a pin in
>>>a chart or something.
>>
>> It just had to be said... <g>
>
> I understand your thought process there.
>
> I have my eye on a 2008 GSX650F.
>
> The issue in my mind is, among other things, buying a bike where they put
> in electronic fuel injection but kept the sticker price low. This means
> they may not have thrown enough money at it to do it right.
>
> I really don't need to be getting out scopes and things diagnosing this
> sensor or that sensor ...
>
> And fuel injection is necessary for the bike to run ... if anything dies,
> you ain't going nowhere. Well-written software might tolerate a sensor
> that goes bad, but if the fuel pump or the computer or any of the
> injectors die ...

No, unfortunately if a sensor goes out that bike won't go anywhere. It
needs all of them to adequately compute how much fuel is required in the
cylinder. Frankly I don't see the overall benefits that fuel injection
would add to a bike. It would greatly improve efficiency, that it true, but
at the expense of greatly increased complexity - boy I'm not sure about
that, imagine getting rust in the tank, that would utterly trash the
injectors. Bikes aren't cars, they don't operate in the same highly
controlled conditions and have the added detraction of increased frequency
of crashes, something that would stress the sensors and computer.

Maybe just like fuel injection on cars, it'll take a bit of time for me to
trust it on a bike.

>
> Well, I'll send a link to pics when I finally buy something ...