http://www.autoblog.com/2008/1 ... ls-v4-motorcycle-concept/


Now I'm no engineer, but....... where are the wheels?

Cool, those wheels look cool Remind me of the tail rotor on the Dauphin helicopter

Quote from crashgate3 :

now I'm No Engineer, But....... Where Are The Wheels?

Hahahaha

Quote from MAGGOT :

Hahahaha

What this young man was trying to say is when you're a designer you can just go mental with the design, it doesn't need to be practical, just look good.

No, that can't be real. I'm not keen on these way too futuristic concepts

Reminds me...
http://www.burningart.com/meico/moto/sbarro/

Or also for car application
http://aycu06.webshots.com/ima ... 002275104638585995_rs.jpg

Oh wow... we ride on plastic wheels integrated into the bodywork.

For some reason it reminds me of that stupid shark-scooter thing Honda have done. Not really my cup of tea, especially if a production one ends up looking like the current 'Blade. Imo the shape before looked much better.

Hubless wheels I can understand, but there's no actual rotating part there..

Unless possibly the wheels are entirely enclosed except for a tiny gap at the bottom (as you only actually need the contact patch to stick out of the bodywork).

That V4 thing is hideous. Gimme a proper V4, VFR750 RC30.

The only Honda concept I thought looked any good was the NAS/Xasix.

Fools. It's not a motorbike at all. It's an old cassette in disguise, with the tape omitted.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

Hubless wheels I can understand, but there's no actual rotating part there..

Unless possibly the wheels are entirely enclosed except for a tiny gap at the bottom (as you only actually need the contact patch to stick out of the bodywork).

so I guess you can't lean this bike.

Quote from Inouva :

pickshurs

i actually like the suzuki

I thought it looked like Tron too.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

Hubless wheels I can understand, but there's no actual rotating part there..

Unless possibly the wheels are entirely enclosed except for a tiny gap at the bottom (as you only actually need the contact patch to stick out of the bodywork).

The contact patch on a bike is large, as it needs to be on the sides of the tyres aswell, not just directly underneath.

Quote from beefyman666 :

That V4 thing is hideous. Gimme a proper V4, VFR750 RC30.

The only Honda concept I thought looked any good was the NAS/Xasix.

That's almost as nice as this

Quote from Bob Smith :

Fools. It's not a motorbike at all. It's an old cassette in disguise, with the tape omitted.

If you're selling it, you can stick a pencil in the wheel and wind back the odometer a bit

The press were well annoyed when that was unveiled. They'd been hoping for the long anticipated proper V4 road-race bike and got this self-indulgent nonsense concept.

Quote from amp88 :

I thought it looked like Tron too.

Reminded me of Akira, though it looks nothing like it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gen/40687210/

I like it. I can't get over how adverse to modern design a lot of you people are . I'm the old fuddy duddy here, it should be me complaining about modern stuff not all you kids

@gezmoor: I'm an engineer at heart, not an artist. If it's not functional, I don't see much point. Why even bother calling it a motorcycle if it has no actual wheels but rather suggestions of wheels?

As a matter of fact, the rest of the bike is fairly contemporary and certainly nothing earth-shattering. The production 2006 Yamaha R6 was way more of a fresh design than that Honda thing.

As for Akira:

Quote from Forbin :

@gezmoor: I'm an engineer at heart, not an artist. If it's not functional, I don't see much point. Why even bother calling it a motorcycle if it has no actual wheels but rather suggestions of wheels?

As a matter of fact, the rest of the bike is fairly contemporary and certainly nothing earth-shattering. The production 2006 Yamaha R6 was way more of a fresh design than that Honda thing.

As for Akira:

Damn those bikes are weird, they must be so uncomfortable to ride...

Quote from Forbin :

@gezmoor: I'm an engineer at heart, not an artist. If it's not functional, I don't see much point. Why even bother calling it a motorcycle if it has no actual wheels but rather suggestions of wheels?

Ah yes I agree, being of an engineering/science background myself. But art has the ability to stimulate the imagination and without imagination even engineers would be reduced to just copying existing designs. There would be no progress. As for the functionality. Well it's not functional, Today. Who knows about tomorrow with science and materials technology advancing all the time something very similar may become possible. People were complaining about it's lack of suspension in the comments in the link. Well who's to say the materials used don't have the right properties to allow the front wheel to turn and the wheels to move up and down. That's what I mean when I say peoples thinking is too rigid, too limited to the now.

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As a matter of fact, the rest of the bike is fairly contemporary and certainly nothing earth-shattering. The production 2006 Yamaha R6 was way more of a fresh design than that Honda thing.

Which is why I don't object to it. As you say, it's not even that futuristic. But you have to admit it does have very clean lines and is the ulitmate expression of where (sports) bikes have been going in the last 5 years no?

Quote from Forbin :

@gezmoor: I'm an engineer at heart, not an artist. If it's not functional, I don't see much point. Why even bother calling it a motorcycle if it has no actual wheels but rather suggestions of wheels?

As a matter of fact, the rest of the bike is fairly contemporary and certainly nothing earth-shattering. The production 2006 Yamaha R6 was way more of a fresh design than that Honda thing.

As for Akira:

Horrid horrid horrid.