I'd pick EFI too on a street bike but not on a bike I'd be riding alone in remote areas. You would think EFI systems used on cars would be reliable but I've had two fail over the last several years. The computer went out on my Toyota pickup causing me a lot of grief. No way to diagnose the computer except to eliminate everything else and plug in a new one to see if it works. Also had the fuel injector resistor go out on my Suzuki Swift. There are too many parts that could fail and leave me stuck 50 miles from help.
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Originally Posted by Wolftrax
I used to be in the "carb only crowd". I had questions about reliablity, maitenance, etc. After owning 3 EFI bikes now and riding well over 40000 miles on these bikes there has only been one problem with all three of them. Yamaha, Husky and a Honda, all with EFI have all had an off idle stumble. These bikes all came from the factory extremely lean apparently to pass the EPA sniffer test. All have been easy fixes, the Honda an EJK, the Husky a spoofer and the Yamahan jumping the clutch switch to fool the ECU the bike was being started hence enriching the fueling. I suspect the RX-3 will have some type of fueling niggle with an equally simple fix. Perfomance wise I now will always pick an EFI over a carbed bike anyday.
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