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Motorcycles are not measurably cooler looking than when I was a teenager.
They look the goddamn same...and choppers are gone
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The sound and absurd acceleration make up for it
There is also the Zero SR/S and that thing does 0-100 km/h in 3 seconds and 0-160km/h in 6 seconds. Tops out at almost 200km/h
Most ICE sports bike for the last 20-30 years have easily been able to do those acceleration times. Ie 1998 R1 0-60mph (97km/h) 2.96 s. 0-100mph(160k) 5.93s top speed 168/270k {MC Consumer news via wikipedia)
Which is not to say the zero isn't a cool bike but EV bikes struggle to match ICE, unlike cars where they absolutely toast ICE
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They look the goddamn same...and choppers are gone
Sport bikes continue to insectify themselves, small motorcycles are disappearing (250cc bikes are all but gone and the 300cc era didn't seem to last long) cruisers are an endangered species, probably because they're copies of Harley-Davidsons which is a dying brand, turns out making god damn fucking sure you only appeal to Boomers isn't the best long-term business strategy.
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Yeah... Haven't motorcycles always looked cool?
Yeah, but you can't just roll in on a Harley when it's a cyberpunk dystopia.
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Literary futuristic dystopias have the luxury of clearly defining good vs bad and generally ignoring the horrible plight of the have-nots as anything other than plot points or scene setting.
You’d never read a book that was nothing more than the grind of hopelessness, the self-sabotaging myopic stupidity, greed, and hatreds of the masses that get manipulated by politicians.
What the authors do almost always get right is the bottomless greed of the wealthy willing to set the fictional world on fire and destroy, or at best coldly disregard, the lives of those not in their class to further their wealth and power.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I mean, just from looking at History, we should've expected that the Dystopia we would get was one were things are shit for most people but we're constantly fed fables that "actually it's all good", "for you it's going to be fine (trust me)" or that "it's all the fault of the poor and foreigners" (or all three, in sequence, as things get more undeniably bad).
That said, at least looking back at teenage me, I don't think that at that age one is worldly or wise enough (and many people never are) to figure out that the most likely way for us to be screwed would involve some grand scale variant of the "one hand in our pockets whilst the other is waving in front of our faces to distract us" strategy.
