EFI has my vote any day. As mentioned by Ted, today's electronic is bullet proof.



P.S.: to the HUBB!

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"Hey, ...I'm just ridin' shotgun"

+1 for EFI

+2 for to the HUBB

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It all depends which bike for EFI --my VStrom is not smooth at low rpm.
You are not going to get any more power out of the bike by using EFI just more convenience .If you don't like rejetting then steer clear of carbs .

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"When you come to a fork in the road ,take it ! When you come to a spoon in the road ,take that also ."

I appreciate the guidance from everyone. Thank you. I did check other threads but didn't see one about the altitude issue. These replies are very helpful.

FI is the go.

Diesel submarines, Piston engine aircraft etc all run fuel injection. Far more mission critical equipment than adventure motorcycles run fuel injection. Its been around since 1925 and widespread in many applications since the second world war. Its not some new fangled technology. Even Electronic FI has been around for 50 years.

They havent sold a car with carbs in the US since 1992 ... if anyone thinks 1970s carbed cars have more reliable induction than modern EFI cars, they are living in a dream.

EFI all the way. ON top of it all, a fuel injector is actually a far more simple piece of kit than a carb. There is effectively only one moving part in the injector.

I think the need to use carbs is one of the great adventure motorcycling wives tales.

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Thanks, colebatch. Very helpful. People keep writing how easy carbs are to work on compared to EFI, but others point out EFI is more efficient and more reliable.
Now, get some sleep! By my watch it looks like it was about 4:00 a.m. in UK when you wrote this!

That may be so, but I am in Canada right now

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Hi Colebatch

I am not a native English speaking guy, could you please explain what is the meaning of WIVES in this sentence ? ))))

I have a R80 GS Basic which is a great adventure motorcycle IMHO! which is running on carbs and I am a member of Euroheads Group too.

If it has real meaning of wife (s), my wife (s) don't know any tales about carbs !

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Old wives' tale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Did some trips.
Rode some bikes.
Fix them for a living.
Can't say anymore.

A wives tale is a false "perceived wisdom" handed down usually by older women.

Things like "if you wind the window down in your car and have moving air on your face, you are likely to catch a cold" and other rubbish like that. For a long time the perceived wisdom was that you needed an old bike and carburettors to ride around the world.

That has long since changed.

Sure you can still do it with an old bike and carbs, and there is nothing wrong with that, but the idea that you NEEDED carbs, or were somehow reckless and foolish to take a fuel injected bike has been proven terribly out of date.

The vast majority of bikes I have met in remote places all use EFI, and not one of them had a single issue with the EFI. I never met anyone who had to rebuild their injector on the road. I have met dozens and dozens who have partially or fully rebuilt their carb on the road. I never met anyone whose big bike trip was stopped because of failed ECU either. Not saying it never happens, just saying the reality (as opposed to the stories) for me is that EFI wins on pretty much every count every time. If you compare the amount of times an EFI system NEEDS to be tuned, modified, partially or fully rebuilt while on the road on a trip, compared to a carbed system, then you could only say that EFI is dozens of times more reliable than carbs.

The one bike to worry about is the issue prone 690 ... which seems to have a few fuel pump, fuel filter and voltage regulator issues.

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:confused1: :confused1: Seriously?

Let me google that for you

Don't use the HUBB search, it doesn't work (well).

Dear chap there are 4,370 such topics.

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