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Blake
Posted on Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 12:11 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

To address the aging H-D clientele?

http://www.gizmag.com/go/7440/

Sketches at... http://www.gizmag.com/go/7440/gallery/
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Jackbequick
Posted on Sunday, June 17, 2007 - 11:25 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

Note the last line of the article:

"..Perhaps with this new platform, we’ll get to see Erik Buell work with the V-ROD motor at last and indeed, what a sporting carver might do when focused on sporting endeavours..."

They call it a "carving model". I think I could see myself enjoying carving my way through the curves on something like that.

I wonder if a configuration like that lends itself to subconcious steering inputs of rider lean like a motorcycle? If so, that would make for a smooth transition from two wheels to three.

I have a very limited amount of time on three wheeled motorcycles (one short ride on a BMW with a sidecar in the 70's). But making the transition can be a little terrifying as first if you go to something that has little or nothing in common with riding motorcycles.

Jack
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Blake
Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 - 12:37 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only) Ban Poster IP (Custodian/Admin only)

That last line seems like a HUGE silly stretch to me. It's not a Buell; it's a Harely-Davidson, and the sketches show it using an air-cooled engine.
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