Video at the website.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
2 posted on
08/29/2009 10:34:42 AM PDT by
Shooter 2.5
(NRA /Patron - TSRA- IDPA)
To: Red Badger
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thats dam cool, and just wrong, in so many ways! Outrageous to say the lest. I’ll bet it handles like cr*p, but it is interesting.
4 posted on
08/29/2009 10:35:04 AM PDT by
Paradox
(ObamaCare = Logan's Run ; There is no Sanctuary!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Not much to go on from this very abbreviated video.
Lots of cheesecake shots of the bike from various angles,
which highlights the really gorgeous styling.
From the video it looks like the thing, once on the road, can actually attain the 55 mph speedlimit.
Hell my first bike the 1975 Honda CB125 could do that PLUS another 8 MPH.
Once you see the thing actually being ridden with a human sized rider, you begin to see what could be problems:
an ENORMOUSLY enlongated gas tank, which necessarily puts the rider’s arms outstretched almost straight, which suggests that is the position and posture that will be the ONLY one this bike could be ridden with. How’s the steering geometry, btw?
For my money, although I do like the fact that this thing
still manages to look more like a “bike” than a rocket ship, the best smallish bike ever made was the 1975 Yamaha RD 350.
7 posted on
08/29/2009 10:54:42 AM PDT by
supremedoctrine
(Time is the school in which we learn that time is the fire in which we burn.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
WOW now that is a serious bad bike.
8 posted on
08/29/2009 10:55:02 AM PDT by
Texas Fossil
(The last time I looked, this is still Texas where I live.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
After the dude started it and kicked it in gear, sounded like a plane taking off!!
9 posted on
08/29/2009 10:56:13 AM PDT by
djf
(The "racism" spiel is a crutch, those who unashamedly lean on it, cripples!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
10 posted on
08/29/2009 10:57:49 AM PDT by
wastedyears
(Genesis, Sega CD and Saturn work, and my 360 red rings after 2 and a half years.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
11 posted on
08/29/2009 10:58:33 AM PDT by
painter
(No wonder democrats don't mind taxes.THEY DON'T PAY THEM !)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I guess the helmet is for in case he falls starting it up. After that is is just along for the ride.
13 posted on
08/29/2009 11:00:43 AM PDT by
BallyBill
(Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Very cool.
I wonder how it would be in the curves and I would definatly want the bars to come back... the rider is stretched out too far. But, it sure looks like fun.
14 posted on
08/29/2009 11:04:48 AM PDT by
Gator113
(It's about stupidity, stupid. IMPEACH HERE, IMPEACH NOW.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Too tall. Too heavy. Butt... Way cool anyway.
17 posted on
08/29/2009 11:14:47 AM PDT by
Poser
(Three Weeks to Washington DC!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Why isn’t it shown hauling a trailer? I’m sure it would have a useful GCVW.
18 posted on
08/29/2009 11:33:23 AM PDT by
Paladin2
(Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Hard to believe that little radiator can keep that engine cool.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Just because you CAN, doesn’t mean you SHOULD.
23 posted on
08/29/2009 11:57:50 AM PDT by
PLMerite
(Speak Truth to Stupid.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
If I remember correctly(and I may not)Indian put a straight 6 in one of their chiefs and put a drive shaft on it instead of a chain. It looked very similar(but not as modern)as the one in the video. It didn’t have 500hp of course!
24 posted on
08/29/2009 1:12:31 PM PDT by
calex59
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