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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.)
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To: supremedoctrine
Hell my first bike the 1975 Honda CB125 could do that PLUS another 8 MPH.

Not in a headwind, though! :-)

I had one, too. Great bike!

15 posted on 08/29/2009 11:09:01 AM PDT by B Knotts (Calvin Coolidge Republican)
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