if you look at the idea of how the stuff is clutching throught he counter shaft, its not really that different in a way from amazingly.....
internally geared bicycle hubs, those things have as many as 6-8 speed in them the shimano internally geared ones, granted this is with planetary gears, but the idea of clutching and enganging certain gears using a sort of sliding shaft system on an internal shaft is really done with bicycles not in a way.
its not 100% the same thing but you can definitely see where honda may have drawn inspiration from to make this new transmission design.
then again, remember honda literally files 100s of applications a year on different things, many of them will never see the light of day, and also who knows if this patented thing is even in the race bike, for all we know the race bike could have something totally different inside it.
for example the new vfr dual clutch trnasmission, honda/suzuki/yamaha have been filing patents on dual clutch motorcycles for at least the last 6-8 years and only finally just came out with something now. trust me i know.
