The thing is, in my opinion, it's a different group of people that it's attracted to the sport. It's not motorcyclists branching sideways into electric bikes as a way forward for the future, it's a group of boffins who are having fun making these things work. There isn't going to be the same demand when the interest is coming from an "outside" group, for want of a better term.

I have no problem with trying new things out, but it does irk me that a grid of 20 or so two strokes is deemed too small to hold a race but 7 electric bikes is OK?

Sticky, I think you're right though, despite it being time to say we tried it and it hasn't worked, it is likely to continue.