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You must have banged your head 🙂
Looks a lot like the Honda DN-01 (i think that's what it's called).
Fugly.
I won't be trading in my Vmax for one of those.......
Oh, petrol (chemical), to electricity, to battery (back to chemical), to electricity, to drive. That seems efficient, and all to allow a tiny bit of regenerative braking? I mean, how much can you tap off the back wheel without affecting the handling? Brake hard and most of the weight on the front surely?
If the production one is a subdued version of the picture as it suggests it seems a little pointless.
Mind you, I still hanker after a C90 and it's wild fuel economy, bet it blows this away and you can still service it yourself 🙂
Pass the crack pipe please...
Looks a lot like the Honda DN-01 (i think that's what it's called).Fugly.
Agreed
This is the bike that made me want a bike license...
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MTT y2k.
None of those pansy pistons. Just a turbine. WHOOOOOOOSH!
This is the one that made me want a bike:
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The OP's one is fugly, though!
OP bike..... Dredd will want his bike back at some point
I'm saving my hard earned for one of these......out in 2010 according to my local Honda dealer
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Completely un-original - but it just has to be this one...
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... then reinforced by Tamburini's next
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That's not a bike, Bimbler.
Oh, petrol (chemical), to electricity, to battery (back to chemical), to electricity, to drive. That seems efficient
It is efficient in car terms, as Toyota showed. The only energy that goes into the battery is what would've been wasted in the brakes...
But ANYWAY - they're not doing it for the fuel efficiency, they're doing it for performance and power management. Having driven the same thing in a car I can testify that it's super smooth and great to drive. Basically in a bike you would have supreme control over power which would probably make it a lot easier to hammer smoothly.
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and is likely to stay that way for a while
BBSS - meh. It's just a fast bike. Nothing new.
Yes, exactly - it's just a fast bike.
Nothing pointless, no new and unreliable technology, just a neat thing that goes from a to b at sub-warp speed and handles more like a motorbike than a tanker. Which is why I got my licence.
BBSS, my neighbour's got one of those, looks great in the flesh...
Nothing pointless
A fast bike is just as pointless as a cool bike mate, don't kid yourself 🙂
I've seen two, mines (silver) and a red one. only seen pics but really like the look of the black one.
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A fast bike is just as pointless as a cool bike mate, don't kid yourself
Don't actually ride a motorbike, do you?
Aha - don't know what you're talking about, but got an opinion anyway - you are RudeBoy and I claim my Wiggle voucher
Don't actually ride a motorbike, do you?
My point was, you ride fast bikes because you like them. I would ride that because I like fancy tech. They are both equally a matter of taste. So you can't call a techy concept bike more pointless. Likewise for extravagant custom choppers and the like.
That's gopping you need one of these
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Blahblahblah. That's gopping.
This did it for me:
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BigButSlimmerBloke: is that StreetHawk?
This is the bike that made me want to ride
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grahams - no, it's the aprilia rst futura, v-twin, 1000cc, engine from the rsv mille.
goes well, comfy as **** but the plastics are ridiculously expensive (as i found out after an incident involving a cattle grid in the rain). Probably the most underrated second hand bike you can find.
This, by the way, is what did it for me originally
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EDIT: and still does, now that I look at it
A few nice bikes here, except that pug ugly Yamaha at the top of this thread which looks like it was inspired by the form ofa hippopotamus.
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I think we're all agreed that Yamaha is a monstrosity.
If we've moved on the [i]what did it for me originally[/i]...
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Oh dear!
On a more practical note, this would be very nice
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.. but typically expensive in a germanic manner...
Tried a couple of these a few summers ago - sounded lovely, and cheaper than most good mtbs...
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