Couldn't agree more, for town /city motoring there cant be a car made that would top the efficiency or burn less fuel per mile than a motorcycle.Because bikes invariably run higher compression than cars they have a far cleaner burn.
Bikes wouldn't even need cats if they were tested on the same level as cars.
Just shows what a load of bolloxs it all is........
Couldn't agree more, for town /city motoring there cant be a car made that would top the efficiency or burn less fuel per mile than a motorcycle.
Bob
Not around town there isn't........besides 50mpg is rubbish around town.You are making sweeping statements. I'm sure that there are some cars that can improve on the 50MPG my 'bike offers.
I wouldn't agree, my VTR is carbed and would be exempt if it was a year newer. It probably should be exempt but as going into london
isn't really of any interest to me, I am not going to pay to have it exempted.
I saw a post from someone with a slingshot gsxr, he went to the testing place, iI gather it cost equvalent of 14 days of paying
the ULEZ charge and it's now exempt, yes it passed.
Also our dictators in Wales.Its exactly the model Chairman Khan has run with in London.
My diseasel 1.6 Mondeo was giving a rock steady 55mpg when I was doing more longer trips a couple of years ago. Now it’s below 50 as the farthest I go is 3 miles into town, it doesn’t even get up to temp on really cold days. The best I ever had was 75mpg when I first bought it, driving incredibly carefully, coasting down hills etc, just to try and get the reading to click over to 75. Never done it since though.You are making sweeping statements. I'm sure that there are some cars that can improve on the 50MPG my 'bike offers.
My past bikes have been "okay" on fuel but not spectacular (given the available performance mind, not too shabby).My diseasel 1.6 Mondeo was giving a rock steady 55mpg when I was doing more longer trips a couple of years ago. Now it’s below 50 as the farthest I go is 3 miles into town, it doesn’t even get up to temp on really cold days. The best I ever had was 75mpg when I first bought it, driving incredibly carefully, coasting down hills etc, just to try and get the reading to click over to 75. Never done it since though.
My BMW 1100 bike barely betters 50mpg nowadays, but it is 27 years old with 100k plus on it. The Yam 1100 gives a minimum 65mpg all day long.
Riverside Motorcyles in East London do the testing for around £175 and not surprisingly most older carbed bikes will pass including Harley Sportsters! I know that most of the CBR400 range pass although the 400 V4's normally need a small cat fitted. The Bike Shed Show is about the only time I venture into London as well so I'm just waiting for my CBX750 to become excempt next year.... I could take the Le Mans but the clutch is a killer around LondonYes I probably should have said most carbed bikes aren't compliant.
I saw a K reg CBR 600 in town yesterday theres also quite a few older bikes about and I assume most of them aren't on fake plates to get around the fines...
Isn't it now exempt? 40 years old abd counting.Is there a car equivalent to Riverside Motorcycles?
My project XV750 is 1983 so ok apart from the fact it's in a thousand pieces!
I hate Sustrans!!Also our dictators in Wales.
Here the war on motoristsby The Senedd [can't say who is in charge or I'll incur the wrath of Woz for politics] as well as the blanket 20mph there is a stated, written intention to force the ordinary person off the roads (in a largely rural, lumpy nation with a dire and sparse public transport network). Pay per mile as well as ULEZ & other draconian measures were found buried 30 or 40 pages in the manifesto.
Anyone here aware of a Cycling "Charity" named Sustrans?? In the last year they have recieved £92 Million of our money. They do surveys and advise councils (the whole devolved Govt in Wales, where one if their ex-employees was a Senedd Minister till recently).
This is an unelected very wealthy body, that is being paid to "validate" all these motoring restrictions and the priority for cycle lanes over roads, & "active travel" over motorised transport.
Further, there are plans to restrict or ban air travel and so much more.
Beware - its everywhere and the "15-minute cities" (virtual corralling of us the great unwashed) is not the Tinfoil hat lunatic fantasy any more - it's a very real future if "left" unchecked.
Trouble is , it's not free money - it's OUR tax money being squandered on virtue signalling projects that do nothing useful (& paying the Sustrans whacking salaries - they have 6 on over £140k plus expenses, and many more on figures most can only dream of).I hate Sustrans!!
Our council love them because they get free money, so the will do anything we absolutely dont need because.. well its free money! like pointless bollards all over town, where there has been zero accidents involving pedestrians, buy hey, now there will be even less than zero....
So we are being pushed back into the medieval fiefdom bracket on the excuse of "saving the planet" - when the reality is Wales never left it
There’s clever bach.The Welsh Govt incumbents plan to spend 59% of the total annual budget - on "Climate Change"