Bienville

Started by dang, May 26, 2014, 02:09:34 PM

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dang

Thought this was interesting and definitely outside the box. Sorry if this has already been posted but I didn't find it using the search function.

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/sustainability/motorcycle-design-history-books

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/two-obsessed-guys-and-radical-motorcycle-design

Thoughts?

Dan
2007 S2R 800 and a smile every time I ride...

HotIce

Quote from: dang on May 26, 2014, 02:09:34 PM
Thoughts?
Sorry, but it was not pleasant to my eyes  [puke]

DucHead

Ugly as shit, but is that a Motus motor?
'05 S4R (>47k mi); '04 Bandit 1200 (>92k mi; sold); '02 Bandit 1200 (>11k mi); '97 Bandit 1200 (2k mi); '13 FJR1300 (1k mi); IBA #28454 "45"

memper

"Calling a bikini fairing on a monster a fairing is like calliing a girl in an actual bikini proper work attire....unless shes a stripper." -He Man

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Speeddog

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Grampa

i  knew a guy who got a wedding ring that way.
Gaspar, Melchior and Balthasar kicked me out of the band..... they said I didnt fit the image they were trying to project. 

So I went solo.  -Me

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Dirty Duc

QuoteNesbitt says this motorcycle is the first to use this much titanium and carbon composite structurally.

Is he forgetting Britten?  I was under the impression that the Britten was essentially entirely carbon fiber.

memper

Quote from: Dirty Duc on May 27, 2014, 08:14:16 AM
Is he forgetting Britten?  I was under the impression that the Britten was essentially entirely carbon fiber.
+1 Britten was so far ahead for its time. AND was hand built without millionaire backer. SMH
"Calling a bikini fairing on a monster a fairing is like calliing a girl in an actual bikini proper work attire....unless shes a stripper." -He Man

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Important: always check your battery filter and regularly change your headlight fluid.

Dirty Duc

Quote from: memper on May 27, 2014, 10:54:38 AM
+1 Britten was so far ahead for its time. AND was hand built without millionaire backer. SMH
And it worked... and didn't look like the bastard lovechild of Frankenstein's monster and a plumbing factory.

lawbreaker

Looks like a confederate Wraith ( the sketch I just briefly gandered at)... with a Motus power plant

duccarlos

Quote from: polivo on November 16, 2011, 12:18:55 PM
my keyboard just served me with paternity suit.

NAKID

Ugly as sin IMO. And by the look of it with the old guy sitting on it, looks tiny...
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2006 S2R1000
2015 Monster 821

ZLTFUL

Looks like something the guys at Confederate looked at and said nope...too ugly.  [puke]
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Grampa

if you google " if Megatron and Rosanne Barr had a baby, what would it look like?"  thisis what pops up
Gaspar, Melchior and Balthasar kicked me out of the band..... they said I didnt fit the image they were trying to project. 

So I went solo.  -Me

Some people call 911..... some people are 911
-Marcus Luttrell

Speeddog

JT Nesbitt is one of the members of this ADMCi daisychain.

He was formerly a designer at Confederate.
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