Computers: they’ve taken over just about everything in our lives nowadays. Music, television, photography, pornography – it’s all now ruled by LCD screens and silicon chips. And generally, it's made things much better all round (especially the pornography, or so they tell me). Cheaper, faster, better, easier. They’ve taken a while to make big inroads into bikes though. Up to about ten-fifteen years ago, you could still buy a new bike with stubbornly-analogue carburettors, but since then emissions rules have meant that almost every bike has come with a fuel injection system, which includes a little computer. That was pretty much it till recently though – a fuel injection ECU, maybe an ABS control box, and a digital clock in the dash. Not exactly Tron, is it?
But over the…