Fuel Injection or Carburetor?

So which would be best for a relatively new biker who isn't too mechanically minded at the moment.

[yorkie_chris]

Think budget.

Make sure you have a good few 100 quid left over at the end in case of tyres, C+S, brakes etc. needing replacing.

Where are you? I'm sure a local .orger would be happy to come and have a gander at any prospective purchase.

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by Triv650

So which would be best for a relatively new biker who isn't too mechanically minded at the moment.

Either or IMHO it really makes no practical difference, Carbs are probaly easier for a home mechanic to deal with I would have thought. i.e I happily took the carbs apart on my curvey SV, but fuel injection just puts me off tinkering.

The secret is to buy the best maintained standard bike you can that fits your budget and then look after it properly.

IMHO

[Spanner Man]

Good evening all.


As we've had fuel injected bikes for a little over 10 years now (except BMW's but we wont mention them because they're SHYTE) I have noticed a few running problems associated with corroded connectors on an injected engines variety of sensors. VFR800's in particular.
I would say that in the long term carburetors are more reliable, & in my opinion they give smoother power delivery on the majority of bikes.


Cheers.

Originally Posted by Spanner Man

(except BMW's but we wont mention them because they're SHYTE)

how did that throttle cable job go

[Spanner Man]

Originally Posted by Alpinestarhero

how did that throttle cable job go

Hmmmm! Reminding me of that Teutonic pain in the ar5e job is a sure fire way to get the decimal point on your next bill moved a couple of places to the right young man!


Cheers.

like trying to do my rear suspension wont make you a little tense anyway



daaaaaaaaancing queeeeeen

Back on topic...um, i dont mind between FI and carbs at the end of the day. Carbs you have to use a choke sometimes, FI you have to pause for a moment while the fuel rail primes. Carbs I can see how they work, FI you'd probably want one of those fancy snap-on diagnostic boxes that in certain cases tell you everything is hunky dory when its not. Carbs need balancing, throttle bodies need synchronising. Or is it the other way around? You can pretty much always bump start a carby if your battery is completly flat, you will have fun trying to bump start an FI if your battery is completly flat before realising there wasnt even enough juice for the fuel rail to prime, at which point your so annoyed you wish you had those reliable carbs.

Pro's and Con's really

Originally Posted by Spanner Man

Good evening all.


As we've had fuel injected bikes for a little over 10 years now (except BMW's but we wont mention them because they're SHYTE) I have noticed a few running problems associated with corroded connectors on an injected engines variety of sensors. VFR800's in particular.
I would say that in the long term carburetors are more reliable, & in my opinion they give smoother power delivery on the majority of bikes.


Cheers.

I don't understand exactly what you're trying to say but as the first bikes to have FI might have had that for 10 years like you say, it is only very recent that all bikes have FI (if they have) forced due to emission restrictions, for instance the common Bandit only since 2007, Harleys since 2006 (some models that i know off), they even stopped making some bikes because of the requirements (Kawasaki W650). There are probably many more bikes/models that only v recently have had fi fitted as standard.

And I believe (have looked into it and asked around) that the on-off, prime fuel tap is for carbed bikes only not for fI bikes as they have a pump, but someone more technical might be able to explain it a bit better.

[yorkie_chris]

GSXR750 was injected in 1998, TL1000S in 1997, some big bruisers even way before that back in the 80's.

I believe he means that the fuel injection we see about has had 10 years to go wrong, so people (especially spanner monkeys like Stewart there) know what is likely to go wrong with them.

You are correct in that only carb'd bikes have the fuel tap, for the most part. (There could be some wierd thing out there which has a tap on an injection system.)