"David T. Ashley" <dta@e3ft.com> wrote in message
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> "[none]" <name@swbell.net> wrote in message
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>> Eigenvector wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>>>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 ...
>>
>> "a bit of time"? how many decades do you need? the 1985 Honda GL1200 LTD
>> had Fuel injection. 23 years is usually enough time for most people to
>> get used to most ideas.
>
> I think people are getting me and Eigenvector confused.
>
> Eigenvector argued that he doesn't trust fuel injection.
>
> My argument is that I don't trust fuel injection when you don't have a lot
> of money to throw at it. Clearly, on a $7K bike, you don't have a lot of
> money to throw at it.

No me and you share the same opinion, I think. On a 7 to 8k bike I would
rather not pay the overhead costs that FI incur all thing considered. My
lack of trust in them is more related to my own lack of experience with
motorcycles in general. People may have been riding them for 23 years, but
I haven't. In fact I haven't had my endorsement for more than 6 months. I
don't have thousands and thousands of dollars to toss around so I tend to
stick to conservative purchases. I know carbs work on bikes, so until I
gain more experience with them I will stick to what I know. It's that
simple really.