Talk:Motorcycles Update/@comment-221.149.120.245-20170826071425/@comment-27736210-20170826090908

Seemingly, yes. All of the bicycles look decent for Multiplayer, especially the Class B and Class S ones. However, they have problems, such as a slow speed at the start (due to having no Supercharge) and the fact that they cannot knock down cars normally. Bicycles are also kind of glitchy at the moment. It is also a bad idea to pick Azure Coast for Multiplayer since there are no ramps or drop downs.

The new bicycles seem to have a range of Tuning Kit bonuses, from really bad (Class D) to good (Class B and Class S). However, all of them suffer from a halved Tuning Kit bonus until Level 10, because they have 10 MAX levels instead of 5. So, it is actually no longer strategic to upgrade speed values to level 4 instead of 5 (9 instead of 10); you may as well go for 10. Also, I'm not sure which speed value carries the most weighting, but from what I can see from at least the first 2 motorcycles, most of the nitro increase is carried in PRO kits. I have MAXed my Class D motorcycle, and it has increased from 770 to 925. With a final rank of 1031, its PRO increase is 106, which is not much smaller than the 155-rank increase from default to MAX.

With my Class C motorcycle at 0-9-0-10 0000, it has increased by 5.3 km/h in raw top speed and by 12.2 km/h in nitro. It has only increased by 37 ranks, from 1201 to 1238, meaning that this is an increase of 17.5 km/h in only 37 ranks, which is very large. The rank weightings of upgrades could easily be something like 35-15%-35%-15%.

With a Tuning Kit, this speed increase probably increases by another 5 km/h, which isn't very much (due to the small total rank increase) but which is still decent. The motorcycles can also become Supercharged, allowing them to reach even higher speeds.

With a Tuning Kit and a Supercharge activated, my Class C Motorcycle reaches 369 km/h, while the Shelby Cobra 427 at the same rank reaches 399 km/h. Though obviously quite slow compared to the kings, these motorcycles (at least the Class C one) can gain a lot of speed for a few ranks.

Seeing how this Class C car can reach such a high speed, I'm waiting for the Class B one to become available (it's the only other one, other than the Class D motorcycle, without an event) because its starting rank is the same as the DS Survolt (1107), while its finishing rank is around the Ferrari Testarossa. This could mean I could (possibly) fully MAX out nitro, top speed, and fork tubes/exhaust, while only going up 100 ranks or so.

The Class B and Class S motorcycles look like they will be decent for Multiplayer since their starting ranks are very low compared to cars around them. Sure, their finishing ranks aren't very high, but a combination of a low starting rank and low weightings for speed could make them deadly. I can already tell that my Mercedes-Benz Silver Lightning (which shares final ranks with the Hayabusa) is going to get destroyed in the speed departments; at MAX + PRO it's probably 30 km/h slower than a Supercharged Hayabusa, and it's slower at every other rank, with worse acceleration and far worse nitro duration (the Hayabusa has the overall best nitro durations out of all Class S, at 6/9/12). The Ducati Monster looks like it will be good for Multiplayer since it has an even lower starting rank than the Ferrari Testarossa and Mazda Furai (both share the starting rank of 1150), which both already stand out among cars of similar ranks. It is also much better in nitro duration, acceleration, handling (although the Furai has good handling too), drifting, and speed when compared to these two cars.