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Originally Posted by sendler
Even 50mpg should be seen as much greener than 30 despite NOx levels. And now finally, there are motorcycles that are affordable and aspire to achieve much higher mpg.
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I agree that now, resource depletion and CO2 emissions are more important than NOx, etc.
And I likewise agree that it is great to see bikes like yours. In fact, it was the mention of your bike here that made me look into the 250 and its variants, and announce (in jest) to my wife that I was going to buy one like yours, the $12,000 racer and the $28,000 racer. To get the $28,000 down to essentially half the weight of yours must have required quite a bit of unobtanium. I raced when two-stroke Yamahas ruled, so I looked up their power levels, expecting them to be lower -- but surprisingly they were actually a little more powerful, with 50 some hp from a TZ1.
We raced a 350 four Honda for a couple seasons, and could, in endurance races, soundly trounce everything on the track: 500s 750's and 1000cc bikes. The only things we could routinely pass on straightaways were the "tricked out" American V twins. For me, nothing beats a small bike.