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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:56 pm
by Quick_Stix
It looks like its got a car seat in it so youd actually be sitting up?!? If thats so, its not a bike at all!!!! WTF?

Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 3:54 pm
by MiG
Quick_Stix wrote:It looks like its got a car seat in it so youd actually be sitting up?!? If thats so, its not a bike at all!!!! WTF?

So do Gold Wings and recumbent bicycles. Bike = bicycle = two wheels. Looks like it has two wheels to me.
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 5:46 pm
by Neka79
ur a bunch of peasamists...
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 7:00 pm
by ProblemChild
yuk

Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 12:53 am
by swabio-ACT
Gosling1 wrote:Seriously ?

You would rather share the road with something that has *nil* rearward effective vision ? How good do you think those tiny mirrors mounted up the front will be ? The cockpit isn't big enough to turn your head around and see what is behind you. That shitbox would have a *huge* blind spot.
I would prefer to take my chances with a normal cage than a new-millenium Quasar .....

what if they made it fully transparent.... would that make you happy gos?

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:49 am
by Quick_Stix
MiG wrote:So do Gold Wings and recumbent bicycles. Bike = bicycle = two wheels. Looks like it has two wheels to me.
Actually this has 3 wheels if you count the fold up one. And I've never seen a bike with a seat that size. A goldwing seat doesnt come all the way up to your head...unless your a masive short arse.

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:11 am
by photomike666
Gos, before you harp on about rear vision, take a close look at the bars of the Black Pearl
As for the 'scooter' stuff, I see no reason why that kind of bodywork couldn't encase any kind of bike. Put something like that (although more attractive) around a ZX10R and you have a hyper bike with really good aerodynamics. If there's one place a bike loses to a car at high speed, it's aerodynamics.
To the electric/coal/oil debate, if the government wasn't so hung up on taxes from oil we'd have really effective solar/wave and wind farms. The only issue for us would be how they made up the lost revenue. Perhaps they're saving up all the speed fines until they can cost effectivly reduce tax needed from oil

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:54 pm
by Sulli
Does it come with the mandatory "Baby on Board" sticker
What happens if you forget to put the training wheel/side stand down or you counter steer at the traffic lights and over balance to the non training wheel side

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:35 pm
by Buck
Check out the wheelbase.
Heaps of space for your sponsor decals and number as well.
Andi please no more

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:38 pm
by Gosling1
Sulli wrote:.....What happens if you forget to put the training wheel/side stand down or you counter steer at the traffic lights and over balance to the non training wheel side


If this baby works anything like the dozen or so previous attempts at making a bike rain-proof, then the stabiliser wheels will automatically lower once the road-speed drops below a pre-determined speed, usually around 10kmh or thereabouts.
The very first Quasar (circa 1972 ?) had open sides, and it was possible for the driver (I refuse to call them 'riders'), to put a leg out the side and hold it up much like a normal bike.
But a normal bike doesn't have windscreen wipers

or a seatbelt.....

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 2:09 pm
by zxsixr03
And how do u stop at a set of traffic lights with out looking like a fish out of water flapping away "let me out"
Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:42 pm
by Mr Sparkle
Turn it upside down and you have a bobsled.
True multi purpose vehicle
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:31 am
by MiG
Finally some details:
http://www.motorcities.com/contents/07/ ... 25690.html
Very heavy but I prefer these sort of things to having shitloads of cars on the road.