<div></div> BMW Motorrad has issued a “stop sale” notice for all of its internal combustion engine motorcycles in the US. The notice covers both new and used models, and specifically lists the BMW CE 04, an electric motorbike, as the only model still for sale from the company’s dealers. more… The post BMW stops selling all its motorcycles in US except for electric motorcycles appeared first on Electrek.
Why is this posted here of all places? The stop-sale is just temporary and I am sure will get resolved sooner rather than later.
Someone created a bot that reposts everything from electrek here.
Well of course they did. Do they not know that people can just go to electrek if they wanted their posts?? And I am not making fun of electrek, I actually watch their videos quite a bit, but we don’t need everything posted on here.
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It wasn’t specifically posted here. It was posted to Electrek, and we’re reading it here in a hacky RSS format.
It’s also why we get redundant posts, as the same story is echoed on the other Ev themed news sites.
Huh. I’m really not a motorcycle person, but I find this interesting.
This temporary and because of a fault in the fuel system on the combustion engines on the bikes, rather than anything more grand.
Pity.
I know BMWs aren’t in this demographic but I fucking HATE loud motorcycles and the retarded people who ride them.
I ride motorcycles. I also had the luxury to drive in a electric car.
Electric cars are so quiet, it’s terrifying.
On a motorcycle, I’m frequently forced to drive defensively as cars don’t see me. The loud noise is one mechanism to help with visibility. And if I ever get a electric motorcycle, I’m definitely getting a system to create that sound. Because a silent motorcycle terrifies me.
Do you rev bomb those people or do you use the audible warning device next to the blinker switch? All the loudpipe boys I know speed past traffic so fast that anyone listening to music on the highway would never hear them approach anyway. Somehow all of them think a loud exhaust saves lives but never use (or upgrade) the horn. I can’t hear a car approaching from the rear so we all have to visually check, right? Drivers will check or they won’t. I don’t trust someone who doesn’t properly visually check their blindspot to identify the sound of a bike and check better. I expect them to still suck because they’ve proven they still suck. One of my bikes came with a loud exhaust and I still get cut off and merged into. You can’t hear the engine of a normal 70mph car approaching anyway, you just hear the tires and wind noise. Add into that how bikes make most of us ride 10-20mph faster than we drive a car and it’s a recipe for increased conflict. I love that exhaust because V4s have a glorious tone, but I’m not going to beleive the muffler does anything but make me smile, upset dogs, and scare pedestrians. Cars still merge into me, cars still pull out on me, cars still bully me. My bike is yellow, my jacket is white and fluoro yellow, my headlight is hard wired, my helmet is white, my exhaust is loud, and my head is on a swivel. The only thing keeping me upright is me expecting the worst
Most of the time you cannot hear a motorcycle until it is beside you or in front of you.
Pity.
I know BMWs aren’t in this demographic but I fucking HATE loud motorcycles and the retarded people who ride them.
Wonder how long this is going to last and what changes BMW are going to need to make to resolve this.
The electric bike they are keeping feels like it was built for photos and not for actual, real human asses. The seat seems horrifically uncomfortable.
I’m looking forward to the day when manufacturers realize they don’t need to sell something that looks like a spaceship to convince the public to buy EVs… You can just sell a normal car or bike or whatever that happens to have an electric motor…
