Joined Jun 2007
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Norah Head
It wasn't Repsol in 94...
Cutting edge perhaps, but they cut the wrong edge. Maybe someday that solution will be advantageous, but then and even now it isn't happening
My understanding is that it's for sale at a few different spec levels from Vyrus, but they are struggling to generate the interest required to get some testing done with a top end race rider. Without that they cannot get feedback on the projects potential in competition
Joined Oct 2007
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Tuscany, Italy
Joined Jul 2006
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Texas
Ur not a fan of unique bikes then. Date Rocket Rons bike, they were cutting edge bro.
Chops, Rons bike wad badass compa. $10 says peeps are Googling the .... out of that 'fork'.
How dare you sir! I'll have you know that i love all motos even crapping edge bikes like the ones discussed...
and Rons bike sucked ... i have it on VHS compa
I think your wrong there Tom. The Elf bike used a twin wishbone chassis with hub centre steering. The proplem that was inherrent with hub centre steering was bump steer, this is where the wheel starts to steer as it moves upwards. Cars of this erea also suffered this but it was less noticable in a car. Using todays technology i doubt bump steer would be a problem.
Road bikes have been produced with hub centre steering and from a sales point of view were a flop. It seems bikers dont like change and we would rather stick to conventional fork systems, even though they have inherrent probles like rake and trail reduction under braking.
Well although some of the issues experienced the first time around might be solvable now, until a solution like this is proved successful then it cannot be concluded that it is superior. Although i have mentioned earlier in this topic about how conservative riders tend to be and the problem of control tyres
Joined May 2006
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Mts-7
As much as I love the Gagiva, this what comes to my mind as the best looking and icon of style when I hear "GP".
Joined May 2006
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Mts-7
My fav is any 3 cylinder. Please someone make another.
This IMOP, is an eye sore. The only thing as ugly is the Kaw of 2002 (BTW how in the hell do you up load pic's now?)
Joined Oct 2006
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Your Mom's House
Spot on compa! Tell that to the sudden crop of "purists" who think the end of "prototype" racing is happening in 2012. Haha
Quite right sunshine, who the .... thought of getting rid of rotary engines was a good idea ?
It is still a prototype series if all the entries chose to implement very similar solutions, although not an especially innovative one. The prototype thing only starts getting damaged when the rules start dictating the solution, control tyres is clearly the worst example of this.
I'm dont know much about them, but surely a high revving, less moving parts, more compact engine is a good idea in a motorbike?
Surely material technology has moved on, I know that rotor tips need to be hard as ...., but if Mazda can make a Le Mans winning car back in the 90's with a wankel, they could do even better now surely?
Another problem with wankel engines in bike is the total lack of engine breaking. Having said that im sure this can be over come with development.
I thought motogp was about prototype development but if you look at it realisticly, its just tuning on non original technology.
No not really, if you are going the definition route then anything is a prototype on the basis that it's a work in progress and/or not a finalised design rather than a production item
I'm not majorly up on the whole Wankel thing to be honest, there will be people on here who know more, or you could probably find something pretty good on the web. I know their power delivery and inertial characteristics will not be the same as a conventional motor
