One hell of a ride.
In the first 20 years that I rode or was interested in 'superbikes' the output went from 100 to 120 horsepower and 100mph was fast enough for most. (still is for me)
In the last 10 they have gone from 120 to almost 200 on both counts
What will I be riding in 30 years time then?
One of you mathematicians extrapolate those numbers please.
Socially
30 years ago we were a bit shocked by Punk. Now Marlilyn Manson has even worn off.
Ponder me entertainment 2038.
Forum whore
In 30 years we won't have any form of personalised transport that doesn't shit on your toes when you stand behind it.
Entertainment-wise, the luthier that manages to reinvent a catgut strung portable stringed instrument will be treated as a demi-god.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Having a Zen moment...
What he said. As the Saudi oil saying goes: My grandfather rode a camel, i drive a car, my son flies a jet-plane. His son will ride a camel.Originally Posted by Jim2
Redefining slow since 2006...
Scotsman on a German
Yeah, I noticed lots of people wanting far more power than they could actually use in a motorcycle and decided it was a bandwagon I had no interest in gettin on.
I'll work out a way to run my Ducati on an alcohol based fuel and flip the bird at all you fookers with horses as I roar pastmy wee bike makes enough music for my ears.
In space, no one can smell your fart.
Forum whore
If you don't drink it all first.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Hardcore Biker
Im going to be on a ion powered space bike doing 300 times the speed of light.
entertainment will be colonising other planets, shooting or rooting aliens, and taking hostages.
Scotsman on a German
That is soooo last week!
In space, no one can smell your fart.
Hardcore Biker
gave up trying to be fashionable, coz I never could.
Forum whore
We'll all be riding sucky blowy hover things. But Mr Motu's got his already.
I'll be getting on a bit by then , might need to be starting to think about getting a Harley. Doubt they'll have changed much.
Scotsman on a German
I didn't realise you were 286 years old dude. You hide it well.
In space, no one can smell your fart.
Forum whore
I'll most likely be dead. 63+30=93.
Skyryder
Free Scott Watson.
One hell of a ride.
They call it retrotech. It's really neat. Much has changed but it all looks old school.
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Well judging on past performance - I'm sure musically I will be really into something I loathe at the present time,haunting markets on weekends for old DSE 1G MP3 players to rip the music out of.I won't pay more than $100 for these old things - that's all they will be worth,the price of a litre of 98.
Likewise for bikes - I will have found an old GSXR600 that one of the millions of unemployed IT workers had stashed under his shack.With some parts from a few old Yamaha's I'd collected and a couple of Honda's I will be riding around on a real early 21st century sportsbike,weekdays I use my sucky blowy.Wonders never cease.Bottom feeders will inherit the earth......
Homo Sapiens Vulgaris
I guess in 30 years time, going on 60, I might have bought a cruiser...
...if we indeed still have personalised transportation as Jim2 said...
...and are allowed to use it!
30 years is a long time in my book. Lots of stuff could happen. I guess if motorcycles are still around in the number that they are today a lot of development will have gone towards improved electronic riding assistance, transition from mechanical to electro-mechanical systems, nano-tech coatings to reduce friction allowing less maintenance and/or higher specific power output... There'll always be an obsession with more power and more speed - there'll still be people doing the equivalent of turbo charging a hayabusa. Dunno how much further the manufactuerers are going to push up power though. Eventually it'll become counter productive (just like 200+ hps in a FWD car).
With the current focus on carbon footprints etc I guess a lot of effort will be put into particle filters and improving efficiency. Eventually electric motors for road vehicles will become a reality - but not necessarily inside 30 years.
It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)
Remember your humanity, and forget the rest. - Joseph Rotblat
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We'll be reading kiwibiker whilst our solar powered vehicle drives us to the office to worship Steve Jobs. The only thing we'll be riding will be our old ladies who'll look like 20 year olds due to all the $hit Suzanne Paul has covered them in over the previous 30 years.
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