So, What is your fantasy motorcycle?

Here is a pic of a 1984 CBR750 that I bought last week. I was planning on selling the engine and associated parts to do an EV conversion. I'm having second thoughts now. 90+ hp and lots of torque of the V45. Here is the pic and the rest of it is in two boxes.

 

Good choice for conversions. Lots of room in the frame and it's big enough to handle the load.

 

Have you ever adjusted the valves on the Honda V4 motors? This may be the incentive you'll need to change to electric.

Like flatty said, good candidate. Hope you also have the fairings to shield the batteries and motor and make it look cool again.

 

I saw a old Cushman than the post office used to use. It's a 3 wheeler with enclosed driver area. I think putting a 1 ltr 3 cyl Geo metro XFi back there would do wonders for acceleration and FE!

 

I matured in a Honda motorcycle shop. Yup, I've had my hands in the innards>

 

How about one I don't have to pay for and gets 100 mpg?

 

I happen to ride one, what's more, she's my only vehicle, so the 'commuter/funbike' category is pretty much a hit, she's both for commuting and fun. I'm definitely among 'those who recognize its virtues', this bike is very practical yet looks a bit like a piece of art. That belt drive is really sexy
Originally I wanted to buy a smaller one for good FE (the Oil Age has to end soon, one way or another), but everyone talked me out of buying a little 125 (for 2*60km daily freeway commute and longer tours), until the point that I had to admit that they may be right. I don't regret my final choice after more than a year and almost 16000 kms.
Weight is about the maximum I can handle when not riding. I did not want anything over ~200kg at all. She already felt heavy enough when she fell on my foot... (I hate gravel...)
FE can be pretty good, with conservative driving I've been able to get ~3.2l/100km (in US MPG it's in the low-mid 70s) since day 1, now I'm learning to hypermile her and my best is 2.63l/100km so far - 89.45 US mpg. I may be lucky that most of my commute is off-city.

My dream bike? I'd like to see the same Scarver with electric motor and batteries enough for the same range (my best fill gave me well over 500km, but it takes no hypermiling to exceed 400, even 2-up), with the same weight... slow (the 'bottom' of 5th gear, ~70-80 km/h = ~44-50mph) cruising would not be much more silent (in 5th at ~3000rpm she sounds like a not-so-good CPU cooler A few days ago I did a FAS at 70km/h and I could hardly tell the difference ), but using renewable energy sources would feel real good...

 

Just for fun, a scaled up Harley-style V-twin using two Wright R-1820 Cyclone jugs for 404 cubic inch displacement, and an oversized "bobber" style bike built around it.

It's the American way.

 

If I had to get a motorcycle, that would also be my first pick, but I would prefer an OPHV (Obesity Powered Hybrid Vehicle) or OPPHEV (Obesity Powered Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle) over a PHEV or plain EV version, since it can then run on a source of energy that is a vast surplus in America. Of course, it would be kinda hard to fit much "fuel" and equipment on board a motorcycle. (An OPHV or OPPHEV Prius would make more sense.)

 

Ducati Monster Dark or 80s BMW K750