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« on: May 26, 2014, 01:09:34 PM »

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?

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« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2014, 01:24:29 PM »

Thoughts?
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« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2014, 02:54:15 PM »

Ugly as shit, but is that a Motus motor?
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« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2014, 04:28:40 PM »

No.
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« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2014, 06:41:49 PM »

Idealism is nice, especially when you can get someone else to pay for it.
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« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2014, 06:43:23 PM »

i  knew a guy who got a wedding ring that way.
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« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2014, 07:14:16 AM »

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Nesbitt 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.
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« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2014, 09:54:38 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
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« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2014, 11:12:14 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.
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« Reply #9 on: May 27, 2014, 11:43:51 AM »

Looks like a confederate Wraith ( the sketch I just briefly gandered at)... with a Motus power plant
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« Reply #10 on: May 27, 2014, 12:07:15 PM »

No.

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« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2014, 10:06:17 AM »

Ugly as sin IMO. And by the look of it with the old guy sitting on it, looks tiny...
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« Reply #12 on: May 28, 2014, 01:00:07 PM »

Looks like something the guys at Confederate looked at and said nope...too ugly.  vomit
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« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2014, 01:08:38 PM »

if you google " if Megatron and Rosanne Barr had a baby, what would it look like?"  thisis what pops up
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« Reply #14 on: May 28, 2014, 01:34:17 PM »

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

He was formerly a designer at Confederate.
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