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View Poll Results: Would you ever buy an Electric Motorcycle?
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Only if Gas-powered become unavailable
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10th May 2022
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Join Date: Feb 2010
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Posts: 4,778 Sportster/Buell Model: XL 883/1200 Hugger Sportster/Buell Year: 1995 Sportster/Buell Model #2: 11 RK
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Would I buy an electric "motorcycle"? Absolutely, on the same day I would marry a blowup doll.
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: In the middle of Missouri.
Posts: 12,966 Sportster/Buell Model: 883 custom Sportster/Buell Year: 2004 Sportster/Buell Model #2: FXST Softail Standard Sportster/Buell Year #2: 2003 Other Motorcycle Model: FLSTF Fatboy Other Motorcycle Year: 1999
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Absolutely not.
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Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: southcentral pa
Posts: 30 Sportster/Buell Model: classic Sportster/Buell Year: 1998 Sportster/Buell Model #2: 1200s Sportster/Buell Year #2: 1998 Other Motorcycle Model: cb1100 Other Motorcycle Year: 2014
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i expect big brother will soon be collecting data from your rides computer while it is charging and sending speeding tickets to violators, letters to insurance companies that will jack your rates and a road use tax bill for miles driven/ridden. 23000 minus 4500 cost for my used sportster leaves 18500 for gas, cruising easy on highway at 50 mpg with 5$gal cost is 3700 gals gives me 185000 miles and no downloadable info from my carburated engine for the big govt snoopers to track me with,no thanks to electric, like my ride as is
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Originally Posted by riceburner
i expect big brother will soon be collecting data from your rides computer while it is charging and sending speeding tickets to violators, letters to insurance companies that will jack your rates and a road use tax bill for miles driven/ridden. 23000 minus 4500 cost for my used sportster leaves 18500 for gas, cruising easy on highway at 50 mpg with 5$gal cost is 3700 gals gives me 185000 miles and no downloadable info from my carburated engine for the big govt snoopers to track me with,no thanks to electric, like my ride as is
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9th July 2022
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Join Date: Apr 2018
Posts: 75 Sportster/Buell Model: Sportster 1200 Roadster Sportster/Buell Year: 2004 Other Motorcycle Model: Indian Roadmaster Other Motorcycle Year: 2015
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No I would not.
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22nd August 2022
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Posts: 47,288 Sportster/Buell Model: XL1200CB Sportster/Buell Year: 2015 Other Motorcycle Model: CRF250L Other Motorcycle Year: 2017
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Never say never!
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: In the middle of Missouri.
Posts: 12,966 Sportster/Buell Model: 883 custom Sportster/Buell Year: 2004 Sportster/Buell Model #2: FXST Softail Standard Sportster/Buell Year #2: 2003 Other Motorcycle Model: FLSTF Fatboy Other Motorcycle Year: 1999
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I never ever would. Never, never, never.
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Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Halifax, PA
Posts: 123 Sportster/Buell Model: Sportster XLH 1200 Sportster/Buell Year: 1989 Sportster/Buell Model #2: Sportster XLH 1200 Sportster/Buell Year #2: 1989
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I'm a Millennial myself. 28 years old. I don't like EV's(along with many friends of mine) nor would I ever buy an EV bike. The biggest reason, that environmentalists like to ignore, is that they are built off a fallacy.
1. You have to mine lithium which is mined by what? Heavy machinery which is powered by diesel which emits pollution.
2. The ignorance of the child slave labor to mine Cobalt which is used in almost every battery produced. Which is beyond disgusting.
3. Where is electricity produced? Oh yeah that's right not from magic but from mainly coal. Solar and wind will never be able to produce enough energy and both of those are also built off a fallacy.
4. These EV's and the concept of them would have never gotten a foothold if it wasn't for the Government heavily subsidizing them. They want to say that people want EV's based off market demand and that's a lie. If it was based off market demand then take away the incentives. It's all a lie and a giant joke.
I love the sound of my Harley and if they ever switched to EV "motor"cycles I would condemn it. Furthermore who wants to ride an automatic soulless toaster?
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Posts: 12,966 Sportster/Buell Model: 883 custom Sportster/Buell Year: 2004 Sportster/Buell Model #2: FXST Softail Standard Sportster/Buell Year #2: 2003 Other Motorcycle Model: FLSTF Fatboy Other Motorcycle Year: 1999
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Originally Posted by Sporty1989
I'm a Millennial myself. 28 years old. I don't like EV's(along with many friends of mine) nor would I ever buy an EV bike. The biggest reason, that environmentalists like to ignore, is that they are built off a fallacy.
1. You have to mine lithium which is mined by what? Heavy machinery which is powered by diesel which emits pollution.
2. The ignorance of the child slave labor to mine Cobalt which is used in almost every battery produced. Which is beyond disgusting.
3. Where is electricity produced? Oh yeah that's right not from magic but from mainly coal. Solar and wind will never be able to produce enough energy and both of those are also built off a fallacy.
4. These EV's and the concept of them would have never gotten a foothold if it wasn't for the Government heavily subsidizing them. They want to say that people want EV's based off market demand and that's a lie. If it was based off market demand then take away the incentives. It's all a lie and a giant joke.
I love the sound of my Harley and if they ever switched to EV "motor"cycles I would condemn it. Furthermore who wants to ride an automatic soulless toaster?
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Also, there is the problem of disposing of the old batterys.
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