Real Manga Bikes!

[Captain Canada]

Only girls and ______  ride three and four wheeled bikes.

[Wyrmshadow]

Speak for yourself. Some of those look like sculptures on wheels.

[Captain Canada]

Buy a car.

 

[noxioux]

You could park the Dodge bike and a Harley next to each other and see which one left the largest puddle. . .

Great looking bikes, though.  The Honda "SVO 6" Thing strikes me as a more back to the roots Goldwing.  If any of you remember, the original Goldwing was intended as a sportbike, not a two-wheeled Winnebago.

I love the idea of a V-rod motor in a sportbike as well.  The V-rod is the only real innovating Harley has done for nearly. . . well, ever.

I also like seeing some of the obvious dirtbike influences showing up on the street as well.

The coolest thing about this group, is nobody seems limited in their need for whiffery.  Cars, planes, tanks, ships.  It's all here.  Why shop anywhere else?
 

[SimonR]

I wouldn't kick a Vyrus C3 out of bed...

[SimonR]

the Dodge Tomahawk looks like it was made to go in a straight line. And it is a disgrace to american bikes, such as harley davidson

IMO it's Harley that's the disgrace. Holding on to outdated concepts (the V-twin at the wrong block angle so it always vibrates like crazy), and surviving purely on their image.

The Harley has a single pin crank though so, while a 90 deg V would give theoretically optimum primary mechanical balance, it would give poor combustion pulse balance. Any body who's ridden an 80s vintage Ducati would testify to the prostate pounding potential of the theoretically 'ideal' 90 deg V.

[Daryl J.]

Just be careful, guys.   One of the best friends I ever had in college 20 years ago lost his life with his Yamaha Hyperbike in Ft. Collins a couple months back.
He and I almost bought matching Honda Interceptors when they were first released back in 1984/5.    
The only reason I didn't get one is that I physically dwarfed the machine.  
And since I didn't get one, neither did he.......for a while.



Daryl J.