Why didn't these style of motorcycles became a thing?
>Way comfier
>Driver gets less wind
>Cool as fuck
>Extra space for storage
Why didn't these style of motorcycles became a thing? >Way comfier. >Driver gets less wind. >Cool as fuck
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Nobody wants one
retards post stuff like this because they can't understand that a sub genre of something that already exists is not even 1% as revolutionary as mass producing something brand new for the first time.
If there's such a market failure then build one and become a millionaire.
I do... badly
build it nigga
Long ass boi - poor cornering
Low ass boi - poor visibility in traffic, both for you and of you, means poor safety
Goofy ass boi - they just lack in the cool points department if you are not a weeb.
Motorcycles are not practical tools in the west, and in the east cheap small displacement bike is the thing to want. So the very idea if it was ever considered by anyone else than honda (they tried a weird looking weeb scootercycle once) got killed in the west by styling and in the east by production costs.
>redditboi
Go away tranoid, you people spend so much time on plebbit you start to see it everywhere.
>no you
stop posting like a redditor and people won't notice you are one
>Way comfier
>Driver gets less wind
>Cool as fuck
>Extra space for storage
you're thinking of a car
Because picrel is as close as it gets to something that functions as an irl version, bonus points for the ones with extra shit tacked on to it with the bigass antennas
But Kaneda's bike is a superbike not a cruiser
Feet forward "superbikes" don't exist because you can't lean them properly.
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Try again anon. Picrel was of course a commercial disaster.
Was going to post that, i would have given one a try if they had a standard transmission
>lets make that anime bike except make it slow, ugly and gay
Japanese manufacturers are weird.
It's a time honored tradition at honda to drop weird ass concepts just to see if they can catch some market, PC800, Valkyrie, Rune, Fury... They just do that shit, only relatively recent thing from anyone in the big 4 that comes close to honda's weirdness is Nikken (and that shit is just plain weird, not even crazy).
This is the closest thing to it.
There was supposed to be a performance version, but Honda didn't fully back the project.
Also
I was going to bring up the alligator.
It was an incredibly well handling bike. So anyone claiming the opposite clearly hasn't done their research.
These boomer bikes crack me up lol it's. 2 wheel car with no doors or roof lol just get a convertible at that point
Have you ever ridden a gold wing? They are mad fun
Lower sightline = worse visibility
Worse turning radius
That said, feet forward motorcycles are “a thing”. They’re just not very popular outside of boomermobile crooosers. Most are DIY jobs.
Because you can’t lean whilst riding in that position. No lean = awful turning radius.
All the handling issues of choppers, amplified tenfold
>Because you can’t lean whilst riding in that position.
u might lean but OP pic looks like u can't steer.
In yurope i'd choose something maneuverable instead.
You can lean, but what you can't do is properly shift your weight enough into the corner to make it matter. Distance into the corner is king for handling potential.
>Entire shin scraping the ground
>Barely any lean
Yep, it sucks about as much as I expected
I feel like neither of you have ridden a motorcycle before and are likely trans.
Anyways feet first sidecars should become popular. More comfort, easier for drivers to spot and the chance to do minimal monkey work for fun.
a vespa is less gay than those
Vespas arent gay they are metrosexual
>Distance into the corner is king for handling potential.
You don't understand how and why that works, do you?
Would added rear wheel steering help?
I have no idea how it could be implemented, let's just say it could.
Absolutely not. You should go ride a bike some time.
>lets make this thing that has a credit card sized contact patch and give it less in a turn and make it more unpredictable.
Steering on bike at speed is a combination of leaning and counter steering as steering itself is done by introducing instability in the forces that keep the bike upright.
In short you don't steer a bike, really you're trying to make it fall over on its side to get it to turn.
Not really.
>I can see no application for 2WS at all. Opposite sense 2WS removes the normal auto-balance ability and same sense 2WS is unlikely to provide accurate directional stability.
https://web.archive.org/web/20061121123547/http://www.tonyfoale.com/Articles/2WD_2WS/2WD_2WS.htm
It's more accurate to say counter steering causes the bike to lean.
When you say "...a combination of..." it implies you can do the individual components separately. You can't lean without counter steering and you can't counter steer without leaning.
Thanks for the link.
The 1997 says a practical model did actually increase cornering ability, although it was tested on offroad terrain. The 2WS system allows the bike to overcome its difficulty to turn on sand. I wonder if a 2WS system would allow an anime bike to overcome its inherent difficulty to turn by being a dumb albeit cool looking design.
Probably not, but...
I wish I had the money to pay an engineer to test it.
Why not? Leaning is done with your hands, not your body.
Shhh, you are trying to reason with the 30mph ass overhang club.
Because we live in a different kind of dystopia.
If you lie on your stomach instead of your back that's basically a sportbike with bags.
because that's atleast 350 lbs of fairing man
In reality they handle like a moped.
Should I get a ducati supersport or a cbr1000rrr to larp as kaneda?
Yes you should.
What is the better pick between the two?
The red one.
I was riding sport and sport touring bikes for a decade before trying a cruiser. Hated the seating position, as you feel less in control of the bike and more like a passenger. A futuristic bike like that would feel worse than riding a scooter. What is the point there? If you don’t like riding, then just get a small car
But it looks cool.
Because it's literally a futuristic take on a chopper and would handle like absolute dogshit. It might be good for pure drag like a stretched Busa, but it's not a good sport bike.
its essentially a cruiser with extra bad visibility, would probably weigh a ton and offer a really detached riding experience compared to sportsbikes.
>180hp bike
>Maintainance cost of a car but for a bike
>4k tire replacements
>All the downs of a car on a bike
>Have to park it as a car
>Impossible to take it offroading
>Needs powersteering and hidraulics because xboxhueg pigfat 2 wheeler weeb vehicool
I'm good thanks
bike
I think you could make way way more with this bike, that engine looks massive, also its supposed to be a hybrid
>l6 powering the front wheel (I don't see how you'd get power to the rear based on the design)
>electric motor powering the rear wheel
this thing would be a rocket in a straight line. Idk about turning tho... They could put some futuristic tech in it to shift the weight balance without the rider but it still needs way more clearance
It’s supposedly a turbine-electric hybrid. In terms of electric drag/straight line motorcycles, you can definitely make them fast as fuck.
Putting power to the front wheel via combustion engine is extremely questionable anyways. You’d definitively need a hub centric electric motor.
Honestly, I’m not certain how much 2wd would help a drag bike. Most bikes have trouble keeping the front down already (and so 2wd is hard to justify), not to mention grip issues, but 2wd might be helpful if you had a more forward weight distribution.
I've only read through the second or third book ... I should pick it back up and finish.
heavy bulky and expensive, also the riders weight has less effect on handling.
the position is psychologically submissive, like a missionary receiver. and probably also goes against some evolutionary instinct reduce exposure of vital organs to danger, i.e. hunching over is more protective than laying exposed. upright / hunched over is also a more aggressive stance. and since bikers are often overcompensating for tiny dicks and want to assert dominance, this design will never catch on even if it makes practical sense.
Kind of yea. But where is the fun in that. Motorcyclists like stradling their engines I guess
I think the distance between the engine and the rear wheel was at least a part of the problem. I am betting these kind of motorcycles will become more popular with EV as you can fit the motor on the rear wheel
See vidrel
BMW used to make one, based on the K100.
They didn't "used to make one", that's just a show bike.
Instant death is obviously your goal and you've never ridden a motorcycle, but the "two wheeled pallet jack" design would be hilarious to watch.
should be front wheel drive and rear wheel steering
Pain in the ass to wrench
Because they only look cool. You knew the answer but just wanted to post it. You are free to custom build one yourself.