Quote Originally Posted by Motoracer
How about 2 wheel drive Moto GP bikes with variable power delivery (between the 2 wheels) controlled by a computer. Once 1 of the wheels starts slippin too much then the other wheel will take on the heat. For race starts, when the front wheel goes up in the air then 100% of the power will be supplied to the rear wheel. Coming out of a corner, when the rear wheel starts stepping out, then some of the power will be transferred to the front wheel to stabilise the bike and gain more acceleration cause of improved traction.

It's already being done on cars but not yet on bikes (there's prolly a good reason for that). It'd be interesting to see how they go anyway.

Yeah,there's a reason,not just economics,but regulations.A lot of development is driven by racing - 4x4 for passenger cars came from rally car development,until then it was just a silly gimick...2x2 is not allowd for motorcycle racing,even off road,which is why it's hardly been looked at.I bet they make a rule allowing 2x2 soon,then it will take off.Motorcycles are very restricted in what they can do - then again F1 regs are constantly working to slow the cars down - imagine how fast the F1 cars would be if they had let the gates open after the ''fan''cars and the active suspn cars,same with bikes...full coverage fairings were banned in the late 50s,never to return - just wonder what we would have now if they were left to themselves and developed to the max?