I'm confused about the throttle body rules...so they're currently allowing Ride By Wire, but starting from 2017, they're going backwards to standard stuff?? Aren't most modern bikes RBW now? This would be like "un-developing" what's been done in recent years...or am i misinterpreting something??
I know I'm a little green to these pastures but this is how I'm taking it:
@TYE - Your argument that some manufacturers may be cheating due to their advanced electronics, I'm setting aside any opposition to that to play Devil's Advocate here and appreciate the same from all so as to stay on topic.
Assuming it did mean everyone is converting back to cable throttles, this would then mean that the electronics would be forced to operate at a lower optimised level because of the lack of digital throttle input. RBW feeds information to the ECU allowing it to calculate on the fly and providing total input to everything else, i.e. TC, ABS, QS and any/everything else under the sun. By bringing it back to the 1X98 days of lore the rider is required to input more and rely on the ECU less, possibly bringing everyone to the same base level since that approach is vastly different.
If this is true and I'm accurate, I wouldn't mind that. I was always a fan of rider skill against opponent vs grab throttle and hang on.
Downside of this is economics. Since laws are requiring more and more edvanced ECU's to control all these fancy safety features, it is still more reliable and cost-effective to utilise RBW over Cables. I'm predicting if all of the above is true and correct then there is just another reason for street bikes to jump in price the next several years or so.
Anyone?
