I agree that bikes in LFS would have to been done really, really well in order to make them worth including because of the extra "dimensions" riding has over sitting in a car. Regardless of technical detail there is a vast difference between sitting IN a box with four wheels and sitting ON a stick with two wheels. The reason that there are maybe a hundred cars (or more) on the road for every single motorcycle I see is because one's simply easier. How else would you explain the discrepancy in numbers (leaving weather out of the equation)? The main reason driving is simpler than riding is because you just get in a car and push stuff and go - you don't need to concern yourself with keeping the car upright. Now, riders of bikes and motorbikes will be used to having good balance since they were children, but believe it or not there are many people in the world who have never ridden anything with two wheels and have no idea how to keep a two-wheeled vehicle upright. They couldn't just get on a motorbike and ride it in the same way that people with driving skills can get into basically any car and drive it. If you were going to simulate a bike and make it so that anyone could ride it you'd need to implement some kind of automatic balance and it'd probably be just like driving a sim-car - sit down at the desk, push buttons, go. Like I said, experienced riders have good balance as second nature, but at some point we all had to learn how to balance a bike (and some of us still have the scars
). To cut it short, if you had auto-balancing bikes in a game you'd remove half the challenge of actually riding them. Regardless of what specific technique you use to take corners you still need to be able to balance in a straight line 
But far from how well the bike was simulated, I just don't think an LFS bike would attract enough interest to make it worth including. Of course I could be wrong
Anyway, alas, my riding days are over and I have to be content with pedal-power these days. But I've loads of fond memories of my crappy old dirt bike (shit-brown Suzi 185 AG - the Aussie farmer's favourite) and dropping my mate's Ninja ten years ago - kids, don't ride on acid
but at least I didn't crash my brother's Duck 600 Monsterdark like dad did :eek: - god, that was a sweet ride (he recently restored a BSA Bantam - one throbbing cylinder and one throbbing horsepower! 
). I would've posted in that other thread but there's no photo of the ol' Suze.
). To cut it short, if you had auto-balancing bikes in a game you'd remove half the challenge of actually riding them. Regardless of what specific technique you use to take corners you still need to be able to balance in a straight line But far from how well the bike was simulated, I just don't think an LFS bike would attract enough interest to make it worth including. Of course I could be wrong
Anyway, alas, my riding days are over and I have to be content with pedal-power these days. But I've loads of fond memories of my crappy old dirt bike (shit-brown Suzi 185 AG - the Aussie farmer's favourite) and dropping my mate's Ninja ten years ago - kids, don't ride on acid
but at least I didn't crash my brother's Duck 600 Monsterdark like dad did :eek: - god, that was a sweet ride (he recently restored a BSA Bantam - one throbbing cylinder and one throbbing horsepower! ). I would've posted in that other thread but there's no photo of the ol' Suze.
