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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
More than 50% of all the brand-new motorcycles sold in my country are in the 125 to 150cc displacement range, with a little less than 18hp, and they actually fair pretty decently.
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Exactly! I chose 30 HP (perhaps too high) for a bit of passing performance at speed. What I have found about motorcycles is they are about max power for light weight rather than ultimate efficiency. What if these bikes had engines designed around high MPG rather than a by-product of their small engine size and low HP?
I remember a while back a Ford Engineer who made a streamlined reverse trike that looked like an airplane fuselage and got high MPG. Just saying we have the technology and it could be tweaked up quite a bit.