Why didn't these style of motorcycles became a thing? >Way comfier. >Driver gets less wind. >Cool as fuck

Why didn't these style of motorcycles became a thing?
>Way comfier
>Driver gets less wind
>Cool as frick
>Extra space for storage

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Nobody wants one

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous
      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        morons 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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I do... badly

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        build it homie

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >redditboi

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Go away tranoid, you people spend so much time on plebbit you start to see it everywhere.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >no you
          stop posting like a redditor and people won't notice you are one

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Way comfier
    >Driver gets less wind
    >Cool as frick
    >Extra space for storage

    you're thinking of a car

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      But Kaneda's bike is a superbike not a cruiser

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Feet forward "superbikes" don't exist because you can't lean them properly.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Because you can’t lean whilst riding in that position. No lean = awful turning radius.
          All the handling issues of choppers, amplified tenfold

          the only good argument itt

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Try again anon. Picrel was of course a commercial disaster.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Was going to post that, i would have given one a try if they had a standard transmission

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >lets make that anime bike except make it slow, ugly and gay
        Japanese manufacturers are weird.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          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).

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        This is the closest thing to it.

        >lets make that anime bike except make it slow, ugly and gay
        Japanese manufacturers are weird.

        There was supposed to be a performance version, but Honda didn't fully back the project.
        Also

        >Because you can’t lean whilst riding in that position.

        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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Have you ever ridden a gold wing? They are mad fun

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because you can’t lean whilst riding in that position. No lean = awful turning radius.
    All the handling issues of choppers, amplified tenfold

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Because you can’t lean whilst riding in that position.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        u might lean but OP pic looks like u can't steer.
        In yurope i'd choose something maneuverable instead.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        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.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous
          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >Entire shin scraping the ground
            >Barely any lean
            Yep, it sucks about as much as I expected

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            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.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            a vespa is less gay than those

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Vespas arent gay they are metrosexual

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Distance into the corner is king for handling potential.
          You don't understand how and why that works, do you?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Feet forward "superbikes" don't exist because you can't lean them properly.

      Would added rear wheel steering help?
      I have no idea how it could be implemented, let's just say it could.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Absolutely not. You should go ride a bike some time.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >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.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        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

        >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.

        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.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          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.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Feet forward "superbikes" don't exist because you can't lean them properly.

      Why not? Leaning is done with your hands, not your body.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Shhh, you are trying to reason with the 30mph ass overhang club.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because we live in a different kind of dystopia.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    If you lie on your stomach instead of your back that's basically a sportbike with bags.

  9. 1 year ago
    Greased Geese

    because that's atleast 350 lbs of fairing man

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    In reality they handle like a moped.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Should I get a ducati supersport or a cbr1000rrr to larp as kaneda?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yes you should.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Should I get a ducati supersport or a cbr1000rrr to larp as kaneda?

        What is the better pick between the two?

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          The red one.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      But it looks cool.

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    its essentially a cruiser with extra bad visibility, would probably weigh a ton and offer a really detached riding experience compared to sportsbikes.

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >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

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      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

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It’s supposedly a turbine-electric hybrid. In terms of electric drag/straight line motorcycles, you can definitely make them fast as frick.

        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.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I've only read through the second or third book ... I should pick it back up and finish.

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    heavy bulky and expensive, also the riders weight has less effect on handling.

  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Kind of yea. But where is the fun in that. Motorcyclists like stradling their engines I guess

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    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

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    See vidrel

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    BMW used to make one, based on the K100.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      They didn't "used to make one", that's just a show bike.

      should be front wheel drive and rear wheel steering

      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.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    should be front wheel drive and rear wheel steering

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Pain in the ass to wrench

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because they only look cool. You knew the answer but just wanted to post it. You are free to custom build one yourself.

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