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Riding a motorcycle is really cool and the adrenaline is a really nice feeling. Well, somebody thought to change the way that the motorcycle will transport you. Jake Loniak, a student at the Art Center College of Design, has came up with a system that will act as an extension of your body.
His idea came from Biomechatronics and he dubbed his concept as the Deux Ex Machina and will consist of an vertically parking motorcycle that will be managed by 36 pneumatic muscles with 2 linear actuators. The Deus Ex Machina is Yamaha-branded and it will be worn as an exo-skeleton and the helmet will be pneumatically attached.
The in-wheel motor will be able to power the motorcycle from 0 to 60mph in 3 seconds and it will have a maximum speed of 75mph. The Deus Ex Machina is electric and it can cycle one hour with a recharge time of 15 minutes.
most dangerous invention ever?
it’s a pretty slick design, but seriously. you’d be dead before your hour of battery life was gone.
only if your high, drunk, stupid, retarded, or American.
So what about shocks? You hit a bump and you would feel it through your whole body.
I really want to ride this.
No more so than a motorcycle.
I wonder how this would be recharge. Can it be recharge by us paddling? Well, that would be kind of cool. But how can we slow down in the middle of the highway to recharge? And yes, it’s kind of dangerous with such high speed and so much exposure.
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I wouldnt say dangerous, could even be more controlable then a normal bike, but it sure as hell dosnt look very comfertable i wonder is it? Still its Uber awesome and i would love to have one if they went to the production line looks v. futuristic straight out of Manga.
This is the best thing in the world.
Naw…that would be the gun or the deep fat fryer.
I see that there are at most 3 places that keep one from sliding on the pavement. I can only imagine that it is a bit of a workout to keep yourself off of the ground. I think I’ll stick to my bicycle. Props to the 15 min recharge time tho.
Slap a machine gun on that, and you’d have one heck of a tool for the infantry.
Also, if it’s made out of strong enough materials, and had guards in place for your legs and such, it might actually be safer than a regular motorcycle… Other than for the fact that your head is so low, giving you an impaired field of vision.
I agree, this invention is very dangerous. Lower the speed to a max of 20 mph
Wow, looks really uncomfortable, you legs would drag along the road.
mega badass.
lolz so true
How fucking stupid some of your comments are. This is a biomechanical vehicle that is operated by actuators and pneumatic controls. The wheel base is wide and very stable. The design will not collapse in the opposite direction due to locking devices. You are held in by a pneumatic harness that is stronger than a regular car seatbelt. This design is 100x’s safer than a motorcycle. There will be a minimal amount of force needed to operate this vehicle by the operator. In essence, it is easy to control and drive. Basically it will drive itself with just a minimum amount of body motion.
“American” pretty much encapsulates the words you used leading up to it. That’s why we’re so fucking awesome.
lolz so true, we are awesome.
I think it looks like a Yamaha, not fully thought out and half assed. I would like to see someone ride the thing.
I wonder if the inventor ever watched Return to Oz?
Gorgeous. But the attached helmet is a bad bad idea. It’s one thing to straddle 500 pounds of bike. It’s another thing to stick your head in it. Can anybody imagine what it would be like to try to ditch a bike with their head stuck to it?
Two questions, first, how do you steer it and, second, when will the version with wings be coming out?
1) Why is the helmet attached? Wouldn’t it be simpler to just use a regular helmet?
2) With the front wheels on either side of the rider, wouldn’t he crash headfirst into poles, or kneefirst into anything lower than his head?
3) Deus Ex Machina (god from machine) doesn’t really make sense.
at least a lot of us know when to use “you’re”.
Yea … that would make it sell … real fast.
Batman would drive one of these
Sometimes I forget how utterly awesome we Americans are, till someone else proves their own stupidity.
Sure, it looks badass and great. It was made by an art student at an art/design school.
I’d trust it a lot more, or think it might actually get made, if it was at least designed by an engineer. As is, it’s nothing more than a pretty idea.
from 0 to below a truck in 5 seconds. I think we have a winner. Wow!
It’s cool, but it’s not the same as a motorcycle if it has 3 wheels instead of 2 right? I mean, how can u squeeze through traffic with this?
Yamaha is NOT an American company, dolt.
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Ill stick to my harley thanks
id laugh if i saw a dude on the interstate with one
Death of the future!!! I like it. And I never usually like gay crap like this, so they did something right for a change. I’d buy one, seriously.
In the event of a collision, it looks like this helmet-built-into-frame thing would help direct as much force as possible into the top of your skull.
THEY SHOULD REMOVE THE TRAINING WHEELS.
Right, is that why it was designed by the Japanese? Don’t be jealous that America is the greatest country in the history of the planet. Just because we won’t let you in, doesn’t make us stupid. Try moving to Burma, then you’ll see just how important the United States is to the rest of the world. Without us: no computers, no airplanes, no global network infrastructure, and no one to sell crazy stand-up motorcycles to. WE WILL CONTINUE TO DRIVE THIS PLANET. LIKE IT OR NOT.
Reminds me of Kenetica the PS2 game where people had motorcycle exoskeletons and you raced them from about six years ago
I would ride this, if well thought out, probably not very hard. But maybe not for on the road.
It’s still a concept, not even a prototype. So if anything like this comes out it’ll be only .1 times as awesome.
On the dangerous part, I’ll have to agree with ed and nosactivated.
is it safe to assume you’re american? I make it the internet.
Yes, I’m American, but my comment wasn’t a comment on, “This is the best thing in the world.” It was a comment on, “most dangerous invention ever?”
This idea was stolen from the ps2 game “Kinetica”
This part of the discussion has nothing to do with Yamaha.
It does, however, have everything to do with the Awesomeness of Americans with our unquenchable thirst for danger and drugs. America is the thrusting pelvis of Death, and you’re looking pretty good right about now, world.
You know, it IS good to be awesome especially when you’re on drugs and lusting for danger. GO USA.
oh and btw China pretty much sucks blue whale.
What better reason could their be not to concern yourself with battery life? If you’re dead it doesn’t matter.
:O You’d rather have the internet than SLICED BREAD? You’re the kinda freak we should lock up, internet my ass, when was the last time you cut a perfect slice of bread? Never? Damn straight.
cool - but needs some rocket launchers to beat rush hour traffic as well.
Actually, Kinetica stole this idea from the Wheelers on Return to Oz, back in the 80’s.
Now if they only make a model with a reclining position… then you will have an extra 1/16th second to see your life flash before your eyes.
Whoa… freaking AWESOME.
its so nice! =)
Awesome bike, weird helmet indeed, tho, that looks dangerous, maybe not the rest of it.
and for our air-headed gringo shitheads:
1) Right the US are the greatest country whose government killed tens of thousands of their own ppl in the history of mankind, wtg! then the rest figure it was TEH EVEL INAVDERZ from outside America! Nvm they were drinking tea with your president while banging your mothers.
btw…
2) The United States is ___NOT___ AMERICA. America is a fucking continent you fucking morons, and that includes you, Canada, Mexico all the way down to Peru and Argentina where your asses have never and might never step foot on. You do good to stay inside your fucking borders, everyone else hates you.
THIS PAGE IS JUST FULL OF GIRLS ARGUING ABOUT HOW GOOD OR BAD THE USA IS ! GET OUT AND GET A LIFE LOSERS ! ! !
This reminds me of the motorcycles in the 80’s movie Tron.
This is really cool, I really want to try it also.
Stumbled!
nhick
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I think what sucks is that you must wear special clothing. Don’t think this is gonna make it, because it’s so pointless. Which advantages does it have?
Fake
this is photoshopped
that’s what she said
thats what she said
‘MERICA! WOOHOO
One pothole and you are dead, or at least severely messed up.
It appears that ejection from an accident might be gruesome, considering your head may remain as part of the bike.
While sleek and “cool”, this sucker needs an engineer, and a government safety inspector.
Air-headed or shitheaded? Pick one, because we can’t be both. Well, maybe if we’ve got a thin shell of shit filled with air. I guess that could work.
You stand corrected, sir, America has killed TENS of thousands of her own people. Mere thousands? That shit is for amateurs. Hey, you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
Secondly, welcome to your first geography lesson. The United States of America (USA, which could also stand for Uber Super Awesome), sometimes known colloquially as America, is in fact a country by itself. Your “America” is actually a continent called North America. Peru and Argentina are part of the continent of South America. Fuckin’ A, Google something once in a while before you go off on a self-righteous diatribe.
Thirdly, not everyone hates us. Santa Claus still shows up every year, and God hasn’t smote us in a long time, so we must be doing alright.
I tharink dat dis motocyle shoud be use by anyeoone lol
yeah Americans obviously ring the fu*kin bell while Yamaha asians comin in last smokin the L
its not just coincidence your name is ‘ferry’ because your behaving like a vagina….big, cavernous, carnivorous, moist, throbbing, gaping, pulsating vagina.
in relation, the U.S.A.(awesome) is the raging cock that fucks pussies like you
No engine and runs on batteries. It’s not a motorcycle.
Ok, this may not be the most glaring of safety concerns, but doesn’t it seem that having the helmet attached to the vehicle and not the driver is a recipe for broken necks?
sigh. I wish I was American… Then I could be awesome too
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Everyone here is so brilliant.
Americans are bett4r than the rest of the world, they hate us because they envy our freedoms.
I think they meant Deus Ex Machina more along the lines of the literary term than the literal translation. Still doesn’t make all that much sense, but it sounds cool and it’s easy to remember.
“1) Right the US are the greatest country whose government killed tens of thousands of their own ppl in the history of mankind, wtg!”
That is just plain incoherent.
I was once asked by a merkin if I though we British could ever be as awesome as he and his countrymen… and I said no - we were too busy being completely ultra awesome.
Just look at the evidence - we give the world the three greatest sports in the history of man (Association Football, Rugby Football, and Ice Hockey) and then proceed to let everyone else win at them. How ultra-awesome is that?
Er….Nick..
>>Without us: no computers, no airplanes, no global network infrastructure, and no one to sell crazy stand-up motorcycles to. WE WILL CONTINUE TO DRIVE THIS PLANET. LIKE IT OR NOT.
All of those inventions are British inventions. As was the telephone, the television, electricity and, whilst we’re at it, The USA was a British invention.
Swivel.
this machine is very nice - god day YAMAHA
Ironman V1.0 !
Concept vehicles like this one may be completely impractical but they help foster new creative thinking about industrial design. That is their value. Who knows? 30 years from now a practical design might come out of what we see here today.
As for America, its easy to hate an entire country. No matter what country you live in, if you look at your history you will find bad decisions, corrupt governments and courts, ecological disasters, human rights violations, vicious criminal organizations, abused indigenous peoples, aggressive foreign policies and harsh isolationism.
Without exception, if you look at it honestly, you are what you hate. Work to make your country better NOW. Don’t point the finger because you just end up pointing at yourself.
Cool bike!
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Ima cut ya sucka
i guess all the AMA races and rally races all over the world with foreign bikes winning don’t count? i’ll have to tell my uncle in the AMA that he can stop hating those riders on ducati’s
Actually the USA was a FAILED British invention.
You guys made up Ice Hockey?? That automatically qualifies you as Incredibly Awesome.
dude, the telephone was invented by alexander graham bell, a scottish born american citizen. also, electricity was not invented, read a science book.
this would be perfect if only it burned a lot of gas. and america is the best dam country in the world FUCK ALL YOU HATERS OUT THERE we could wipe out any one of your piece of shit tiny countries with a push of a single fucking button. peace and god bless.
Eh? Powered flight is a British invention, since when? O.o Of course, does it really matter who invented what as long as we completely improved it? As for the US being a British invention, your just talking out your ass. I mean to invent a country, they would of have to had to willingly allowed the colonies that were under their control and had a hand in the ideals behind it creation. Which they totally didn’t, if anything the British served as a sort of muse to inspire our forefathers on how to create a nation with ultimately more freedoms than the one they had left behind (Still true today, Canada, the UK, Japan, these are all countries where civil rights exist secondary to the will of the state. Not that the US hasn’t made great strides since 9/11 either, but not compared to you guys).
Oh, and by the way, you can’t invent electricity moron. You can only harness it, unless you also proclaim yourself to be the creator of the universe too? Also, I thought you should know the Germans are generally know to have invented what we know as the modern computer first with the Z3.
Yamaha is the maker and it’s also Japanese, Americans didnt create this, all of you are stupid.
No the Brits did not make up ice-hockey. it was a Canadian invention that we took from a deviation of the aboriginals playing lacrosse, get your facts straight. and Americans are not awesome your neighbors to the north are more awesome than you!
To all the people hating on this: It’s a CONCEPT VEHICLE people! This is how design and innovation work. The exact vehicle above will likely never see an assembly line, but things learned during its development and testing may make their way into other vehicles and devices. It’s the same as with every other concept device that you see on all the tech blogs and auto shows. If nobody pushes the envelope, nothing will ever be improved. Think Leonardo DaVinci, think Eli Whitney, think Henry Ford. It’s how stuff is done.
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We also invented the internet.
america sux.. get out of my country oil hungry freaks
No one is more awesome than us, thats why everyone hates America. Because we are better than you and everyone knows it. Who cares if we are stupid and on drugs. We’ll still bomb the shit out of you if you fuck with us…
No, the UK invented the world wide web. Big different.
Which one is that again?
I think Americans should be prohibited to call someone stupid. It`s like looking in the mirror and saying “Wow, you`re really stupid”…
Bananas - that’s definitely one of ours.
I think you’re forgetting that the Pentagon has lost nearly every armed conflict in the last century.
The only ones you’ve won is when the Brits have helped you out.
The Brits are pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan leaving you there to lose so you’ll be praying to Allah soon.
I’m sorry but your completely wrong you fucking imbecile. you have been brainwashed by your stupid religion and country.
‘america is awesome’ is the biggest understatement of all time. word cannot begin to describe america the our awesomeness.
Hey, I can just imagine the marketing department going wild over that idea. ” Revolution in battery concept. You never need to recharge the battery during your entire life.”
“FUCK ALL YOU HATERS OUT THERE we could wipe out any one of your piece of shit tiny countries with a push of a single fucking button.”
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That is great, if not consistent with “peace and god bless”
To Kevin:
You forget it was the Americans who single-handedly destroyed the Japanese - without help from the “brits” and also you forget that it was us pussy americans who came in in 1942 and saved the day… I believe the Brits were, as Al may say, “fucked” without us.
And to all the people who somehow believe this is Yamaha’s concept:
It was not Yamaha’s design, it was Jake Loniak, who got support from Yamaha, who uses concepts like Jake’s to improve their vehicles, so they can make them even better than all the U.S. companies, who think very linearly and would not consider supporting a concept like this one because it would not lead to direct profits.
Something the Japanese have learned it “delayed gratification” - investing in something that doesn’t lead directly to reward, but will lead to it later.
BTW love the concept, although it could be rather difficult to steer constantly with the arms extended like that… it’d be a good workout in any case.
shit I made a typo. I’m a stupid american.
This was made with CAD…so not quite photoshopped.
YOU BUILD IT I BUY IT!
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It’s funny…no matter what the subject is,someone in the comment section will invariably find a way to bash the U.S. I’m curious, what the f*ck exactly does a Japanese concept motorcycle have to do with America?
cool lookin bike, wouldnt work tho, what holds the body in place, your pretty much holdin youself up with your arms, youd have to be chuck norris or somethin to ride that american beauty
this is by far the coolest tech ive stumbled upon
Actually there would be computers, just no Microsoft or Mac. For a start Turing was English, no Turing, no computers. Most of the important breakthroughs in quantum physics and semiconductors were European. The world wide web was invented at CERN. Sir George Cayley, a Brit, invented aerodynamics, and developed all the important factors in heavier than air flight. Look up the history of heavier than air flight, it’s all European physicists and mathematicians. The Wright brothers only had the first manned flight, that doesn’t make the aeroplane an American invention. An aeroplane is any heavier than air fixed winged aircraft that is powered by propellers or jet engines, it does not have to be manned. So you would find that actually aeroplanes are not American. Global network infrastructure, well where would that be without the ITALIAN (not American) Guglielmo Marconi. Americans only drive this planet to war and poverty, not forward in development like you are trying to suggest, oh my fucking god I forgot the hugely significant sliced bread. Who cares. If America was awesome how come every one else hates you all. It’s because you are a bunch of arrogant dicks. Not all of you, Matt Stone and Trey Parker are great. I love the programmers of Crysis, CoD4 and so on. And allot of great music as come out of the fact that you enslaved a whole race. Also if you didn’t invade Vietnam and fuck it up so bad that the people that had to go through that torment had some great film scripts to write some of my favourite films wouldn’t exist. Basically fuck off with your jingoism and realise that the rest of the world exists and is allot more important, allot cooler, allot better at drinking (apart from Asia granted) and allot funnier, talented, better looking, less inbred and just better in general.
I’m Scottish so you think I would be standing up for my fellow countryman but I have to tell you that the telephone was not a British invention, just got patented here first. Of course it’s not American either. It’s an Italian invention. A guy called Innocenzo Manzetti invented it, but he couldn’t afford the cost to patent it, so was never credited with the invention.
But yeah, to the American’s stupidity, I was the guy that owned him on his comment.
Ha! So awesome. When will they be street legal…I’m getting one when they do!
the internet was invented by the US military to link its bases together. Like a lot of other technology we have ( GPS, Radio etc..) it trickled down into the rest of the country. America, fuck yeah.
It is amazing how narrow minded many people from other countries can be. Yes I am American and yes I agree with you that an astounding number of people in this country are ridiculously unintelligent, but far from all or even the vast majority are. I don’t think France is filled with pompous arrogant pricks but there are a lot of them. Claiming one is the same as many makes you the unintelligent one. Furthermore, isn’t America just a melting pot of all the rest of you self proposed amazing countries. Please rethink your outlook on many Americans for most of us are actually quite intelligent.
“the vast majority are not”, apparently you can’t edit accidentals.
lol yurofags
‘only if YOUR high..retarded..american’?? - your ignorance is showing America Rules Anything it wants
While my guitar gently weeps.
The cycle is cool. The nationalism sucks.
Temporarily speaking on behalf of the rest of the world America our anus is still a little sore from the last time you enlightened us so do you think you could leave out the “Pelvic thrusts of death” from the script for a while…? Anyway hey if you really have the urge… I-have an idea… Why don’t we see if Iraq will sell the arsholes of the citizens processed in it’s morgues from the democracy you bought them… We’ll get all of their dead arsewholes preserved in the spirit of your political bullshit & then export them to America & then you can finally satisfy that voracious sexual power-lustr of your’s… Then Iraq could make enough money from selling their asses direct to you for your people’s satisfaction to actually then FINALLY REBUILD IRAQ like you promissed…!
PS: Nice bike… I-want one already…
Robby
What religion? I agree with Darwin.
The fact that you keep starting wars that you cannot finish is no secret.
All the Yanks done in ‘42 was rape our women whilst we fought the war. Thanks for your help though.
Quite a few errors actually.
Oh, and Bravo for nuking the Japs. Well done, you must be very proud.
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Wow! What a bunch of pissed off people! Or maybe we’re all just cheering for our own home team… So try to think about it like this–
Austria gave us Hitler, who gave the Germans the Nazis. The Nazi’s believed in genocide (BAD) and scientific research (GOOD). Many German funded scientists left Nazi Germany, (Einstein, for one) to escape a less than promising future, and brought their research to the United States. The Nazi-funded research helped develop the Atomic Bomb, which the U.S. “delivered” to Japan on two occasions. Kinda sucks for Japan, seeing as how they had an alliance with the country that helped enable the weapon’s use in the first place. Let’s not even get into the rocketry..
Yahama and Honda are the biggest names in “Japanese” cars, no doubt. But they stopped being Japanese cars a long time ago. The technology became global 20 years ago, and the cars are now mostly built in the region where they will be sold.
Finally, the bike. Pure death-trap. It could be helped if the support was moved to the front of the rider, something to lean on instead of hang from. Stability could easily be worked out if the front wheels could pull together as speed increases, allowing the rider to lean the turns like a normal bike, but spread out at slower speed for more stability.
In the history of mankind?? America is 232 years old. Check europe’s history you doosh.
No, wasn’t the internet invented by Al Gore
Ice Hockey *was* invented by the British - admittedly when they were in Canada - by some of our guys whilst they were somewhat bored with Moose baiting and log rolling - so my awesome facts are awesomely straight thank you very much.
That aside, Canada does take the Awesomeness of the USA and combine it with the Ultra-Awesomeness of the UK to be pretty darn awesome themselves… Eh?
That’s us told then.
you’re all a bunch of faggots.
Noice, that one stung me, and I’m Irish.
Guy… the world wide web needed the internet to exist first and that was invented by the Merkins (as a way of sending a go / no-go signal to the armed forces in case of a nookler attack - the alternative was using country and western radio stations believe it or not and the thought that they might survive Armageddon doesn’t bear thinking about).
Having said that, without the WWW stuff from Sir Tim at CERN, the internet would still be acoustic couplers and message boards and pretty much free of porn (and therfore crap)
So, in conclusion… you’re a penis.
Your blatancy.
American…
I thought so.
I can tell by the pixels, and having seen quite a few shops in my time.
Including you, don’t forget.
Yeah, uh…
Freedom to pay for education? Oh and that other one, healthcare.
Nice one, you pay to survive, excellent freedom.
Tell me how you really fill about the Good old USA…………You must be a JACKASS Democratic
IT’S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!
-PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!
All of them.
A hyuk hyuk.
Go back to Mississippi, faggot.
America is so awesome and if you disagree then get off my internet cuz that was made in America along with everything else that is awesome
the whole things photoshoped!! bloody well done too!!
still would be cool to ride that
U will be fuked up if u ride dis … its oly a fiction n imaginary ,they cannot market this in d real world, if any1 is buyin this its oly jus for fun, yamaha will be into a deep shit if they release this motorcycle. So yamaha if ur reading this b careful….ur time has cme :))) lol
Parker and Stone are synonymous with the term “arrogant dicks”. Why do you think America loves them so much? Some wonderful traits they share with us unimportant inbreds: Spite for pop culture, distrust and disgust of a government well beyond our control (you didn’t really believe we can tell them what to do, did you?), amusement at the expense of others (especially homosexuals, retards, transsexuals, and the socially impaired), love of cannabis… it’s a long list.
We never said we were the best at drinking. We are the best at drug abuse.
Aerodynamics isn’t something that was invented, it was discovered. If it was invented, then I’d have to assume that Sir George Cayley designed each and every bird/insect. Seems a bit improbable.
As for inventions, well what about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin? That did something. Actually, it made the mass production of firearms possible. Look, we could split hairs all day about this. If Gutenberg never invented the printing press, one could easily argue we’d have never arrived at computers. If the early Mesopotamians didn’t invent writing, Gutenberg probably wouldn’t have invented the press. If some fucked up early version of a human didn’t scrape or paint on the wall of a cave, maybe the Mesopotamians wouldn’t have thought to put words into marks. If some monkey didn’t need to stand up as a survival tactic, we wouldn’t have opposable thumbs. I think you see where this is going. Unless you’re a creationist.
Anyway, your last, um, well where there should be a paragraph only helps to prove why America rocks. If we never enslaved/oppressed Africans, no blues, no bop, no funk. How sad would that be? If we never made a mess out of Vietnam, none of your favorite movies would exist. No nuclear bomb, no “Dr. Strangelove”. If we don’t stop fucking up Iraq, who’s gonna make a great movie about it in 10 or 20 years? Nobody. So you see, if there’s one thing we do well, it’s planting the seeds of good through deeds of evil. Go America.
Electric pnuematic, one fails and your drggin dick.
next generation concept
Dude, don’t confuse the internet (a packet switching network) with the world wide web (all the cool bits) because whilst the Merkins did invent the internet, the world wide web was invented by a Brit whilst working for CERN in Switzerland.
Thank you Sir Tim
Oh and that’s another one. Knighthoods also make us ultra-awesome in the UK even if you don’t believe me about Ice Hockey.
Must I be the one to point out that America was isolationist until Europe started something called the Great War. And lets not forget that America also attempted to create something similar to the UN at the end of that war before returning to isolationism when Europe refused to accept that idea. And that does even touch on WW2.
Sure America has some shit in its history but so does everyone else. The fact of the matter is that everyone hates America because it is an easy target. America is a powerful force in the world today. This is bound to cause all forms of hatred by those not capable of having that kind of impact. Also, try sending reporters around ANY country looking for people who have no clue what is going on with anything.
That country is guaranteed to come out looking as though it is extremely stupid. Sure George W Bush is a stupid president and this is often taken to reinforce the idea that America is filled with idiots. However, Bush will very soon be leaving his position of power. You see we were smart enough to think a head and realize that when an entire people votes on its leader that sometimes a bad guy gets picked. So we let them stay 4-8 yrs. Then we rectify the situation.
In conclusion not only are you hypocritical and prejudice but you also may want to invest in learning how to think critically and separate myth from reality.
It’s a DESIGN! It is therefore perfectly legit even if photoshopped.
Anon: u retard. That pixel argument is dumb. Different ppl use different resolutions for their computer due to screen sizes etc. This can cause strange patterns on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Thus just because it looks weird on the pixel level (This one does not, and I have very good eyesight) that still doesn’t prove anything.
Actually they hate us because of stereotypical prejudices and the fact that everyone insists on using us as a scapegoat.
No the USA was and is an “experiment” in the democratic republic started by the “undesirables” of Great Britain and other European nations. (Note: do to the current success of the US “undesirables” should be read as a very sarcastic, though truthful, term)
Hey, an intelligent take on a very annoying debate.
I do tip my hat to you good sir.
(note: this is sincere. There is no sarcasm in this post)
Well said!
Locking mechanisms would be in place to prevent the bike from reaching full extension and you would be strapped to the main body to hold your body in position.
Or at least that is two of the first things that any engineer would add if they are not there.
Actually we’ve kind of lost the whole melting pot thing for an ever so slightly blended segmented population. Stupid racial profiling. I hate thee in all thy forms. And that includes when I see thee on my census and my college application and my financial aid application and ….
Whoa, bad, no more ranting.
“America is so awesome and if you disagree then get off my internet cuz that was made in America along with everything else that is awesome” by American.
The internet wasn’t made in America. It comes from CERN in Switzerland, and was developed by a UK scientist, i.e. Internet is European……
you bet!
Yamaha had nothing to do with this. It’s a design project by an Industrial Design student still in College in the US.
“Jake Loniak, a student at the Art Center College of Design…”
What bugs me is that this story is posted without any links to the student designer. I’d like to check out this guy’s portfolio. Not linking to the original also perpetuates the misconception that this is an actual product from Yamaha, and everyone gets into these silly arguments.
Again, while the project could have been sponsored by Yamaha, or it could have been a competition entry for them (which I have no clue, since there’s no link to the student’s info) it’s safe to say that Yamaha had nothing to do with this.
You geeks just wish you were Irish then understand why the world was made
here are some “awesome” americans.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE
Not at all. Have you never read snopes.com? It’s a site made out to verify or debunk popular rumors.
You’re right. there’s a big difference between ‘the internet’ and ‘the world wide web.’
The Internet was created in the US to keep information in a decentralized location so that if one site was attacked the information would still be available elsewhere, it was a joint US military/US post-2ndary (college/U) creation and it started in the 60s, ‘63, i think.
The WWW wasn’t created until, well, I was using Lynx (a text-only web browser) from a Unix shell in 1990, it couldn’t have been created long before that; I caught on because I was only in high school but I had a friend 4 years older that was starting college when I was starting high school. and it wasn’t created by one person it was created by a team of people.
It may be very popular in the near/relatively near (5-10 years) future considering Moore’s law (technology doubles itself every 18 months) so someone will surely invent (we already have, in certain instances) safety features that will automatically disallow control of the vehicle from the driver if a crash is eminent. Someone else may very well develop some kind of ’shield’ or ‘repulsory’ effect so that two people/vehicles can’t collide at each other full speed.
They call it ‘putting some horse back into the horseless carriage,’ as in back in the wild west, you could go out and get hammered, sh*t faced drunk, and get back in your carriage and the horse knows how to lead you back home.
But then where would we get all our stuff? Everything is either made in China or Taiwan or the Philippines. We send our jobs there so they can make our warez dirt cheap because we can’t do it here because we have laws against slave labor and child employment, but they don’t.
Right, don’t you just love it when people open their yappers without even having read the *** article? (’rtfa’ for short, also, ‘dnrtfa’ is ‘did not read the (*^^(&*& article.’
No thanks, we’re kinda control freaks.
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Concept wise, this is a VERY cool trike, Jake should be proud!
I wonder if this is Jake’s complete portfolio, he is a student, and this could be his first concept he is proud of and willing to show.
On to stupid arguments:
USA was founded by people who were sick of the way the Bits acted, thats why we decided to fight back!
OK, I’m not sure of its accuracy, but if we ALMOST lost every war, until we got help…Who WON?! We didn’t LOSE!
The internet started as a connection between tow SEPERATE collages, and grew a LITTLE bit from there. The World Wide Web is nothing more than the http://WWW. in front of the addresses, therefore all it did was double the number of available addresses! (www.yahoo.com is a different address than yahoo.com, even tho you get the same results [note: I didn't say PLACE, it COULD be a different computer] and mostly didn’t expand, just made companies buy twice as many addresses)
Electricity was “discovered” here, I don’t know who invented early generators.
The phones we use are based on Bell’s patient, may or may not be true anymore as more and more people are using cellphone technology. The only simularities I KNOW are STILL there are the fact there is a mice and a speaker in them.
Who decided to use an assembly line to build a car?
Where did Areosmith come from?
What country are tomatoes native to? (Commonly found on Pizza, credited to the Itialians, but was actually invented by the Chinese)
Columbus ‘discovered’ America!?!? He NEVER set foot on North America, and to the best of my knowledge, only Central America.
Because Americans are willing to ride it, makes them ADVENTUREOUS. ANY machine is dangerous if you don’t use it right, or pay attention! If you disagree, use a screwdriver on you eye and see how safe it is! (Or a spoon, hammer, pencil, sister’s elbow…)
Dude - where do you think many of the current auto designers went to school?
That said - It looks frightening to me… I’d need to see some kind of real proof as to why & how it’s safer than a motorcycle. I’m not sure how you turn it either. Want to see it demonstrated in any case. It’s completely crazy looking.
Anyway - more like Catwoman than Batman.
The World Wide Web (WWW.) is just a set of addresses available on it the internet. No different than any other address…
I’d ride it given the chance… nothing is safe, so have fun!
This comment thread had been very entertaining. America is awesome, but the UK comes in a close second because you guys have Top Gear.
Isolationist, yeah , how I wish they had stayed that way. After that, they got all scared that communism would spread to the rest of (poor) Europe which had just come out of the war? What do they do? The Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine of course, help then and fuck them up the ass as well all in the name of stopping “Poverty and Hunger”. Lets give them a little aid and make them privatise most of their companies so Americans can rule them and economically rape the country. America cam out of Isolationism only to get their stuff to sell in Europe, unscathed from the war they emerge to rape the remains of Europe. Yeah, Isolationism.
And get fucking creative, the US has like 19 cities called “London”, well where’d they get that from? (dont believe me? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_(disambiguation) ). OH FUCK cant name that town anything proper? Lets call it Cairo! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(disambiguation) .
Americans today are fucking deluded and growing up in their own little capitalism-based greedy world and are cut off from reality. Dont say “I watch the news” Fuck off man, you dont give a shit about it do you?
I believe humans werent naturally greedy for money and power, they were made so by the corrupt and unjust American capitalist system. Im not saying Capitalism is entirely bad, im saying that the American version is the worst. Before all you guys start calling me a “commy”, I’d like to point out that 90% of you guys have been fed complete BS propaganda since the say you were born. Sure there are smart Americans out there, but god you guys need to clean your shit up.
America tried to create the League of Nations and the UN, wow, pretty fucking unfair when you think it can veto anything it wants today eh? As for “so does everyone else”. Lol, man of course some of it is true, but no country can match the level of shit that America has done…
As for “Inventing is different from discovering”, yeah lets go down that path….Maybe Eli Whitney just *discovered* the formula for cotton gin - he didnt invent it if it could be formed by nature.
“In conclusion not only are you hypocritical and prejudice but you also may want to invest in learning how to think critically and separate myth from reality.”
Yeah man, that just shows how deluded you guys are, try listening to yourself for a change…that was a rare peice of good American advice, pity they dont follow it themselves eh?
America has done such good things to us…how could I ever live without windows? (using Ubuntu right now) and without the fat-dripping sugar-coated wonder that is McDonalds? I cannot imagine life without them.
Yay America.
‘Someone else may very well develop some kind of ’shield’ or ‘repulsory’ effect so that two people/vehicles can’t collide at each other full speed.’ they already have created this, it’s based on magnetic fields based on a state of matter which is 200 degrees below zero, here’s the link if you have a spare hour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPwfFiRr88g it’s in like 6 parts
btw I stumbled this
freakin awesome concept
nd btw, I didn’t find his portfolio as such but I did find something
http://www.greencardesign.co.uk/site/item.php?id=1210936143
I think it’s time to come clean. The world is a puppet show, and Canada’s secretly pulling the strings…those bastards…
Wow! A tad bitter. Some of your post is correct, but quite a bit of it is garbage. Americans are constantly vilified on the web, which leaves us very defensive. You are correct, Alan Turing was English, but he would be the first to tell you that the major breakthroughs in computing came from Bell Laboratories using the systems that Turing had developed. More of an Anglo/American collaborative effort. As to the world wide web, well, I think we can agree that this was based on the ARPANET using TCP/IP correct? And if we are going to claim that only Microsoft and Apple are U.S. operating systems, I think we can make a pretty good arguement for Linux being based on UNIX and GNU, another contribution from Bell Laboratories.
As for Americans being stupid; some are, some aren’t. Most, however know the difference between a lot and allot. And even when they mis-spell a lot, they usually spell it alot. Allot means “to distribute between or among.” If that is what you had in mind, then I apologize, but that would really make your post idiotic.
There are plenty of great invention to come out of the U.S. and there are plenty that come from everywhere else. These arguements are pointless. We don’t think we rule the world, we leave that to the British.
What? Do you even know what a cotton gin is? Aerodynamics is a field of study, the cotton gin is a machine. Yes, there is a difference between discovery and invention.
If you think greed and corruption started in 1776, you definitely need to hit the history books.
Don’t you think some of us know we’ve been fed propaganda since the day we were born? Who do you think has worked so hard to isolate us from “reality” and the rest of the world– everyday Americans? We know we’re nothing but grist for the mill in the view of corporations and the government. That doesn’t mean we can just change it overnight. Europe has more refinement and a deeper culture than we will ever have. Did that happen in 232 years? No, it took thousands.
Besides, if you ask me, what you’re witnessing is the desperate gasps of a crumbling empire. Our government has known it for a long time, and their endgame has been one of nothing less than control of the world ever since. They see our world as a chess board in terms of black and white. You’re with us or against us. It’s not just the rest of they world they want control of, they want control of us, too. The only thing standing in their way is a piece of paper called the Constitution.
So please, give us a break. We are not those who claim to represent us. We are individuals.
Yamaha may not be American, but the school this was designed at is in Pasadena, CA. So whether or not Yamaha bought the rights, it was designed by an American.
the practicality of this design isn’t the point. It’s the progressive thought put into the design that’s the point. We need to move away from a car-based society in order for everyone to retain their ultra totally insane awesomeness. I believe we need to use vehicles like this for the <45 mph needs, like grocery store, personal in-town travel etc. And then use auto-driving vehicles like the 2008 Opel Vectra with electric based power supplies for long distance traveling, hopefully up to 125 mph without the high risk of driving today. The infrastructure might take time, but we can escape the oil hole that the current economy has produced with progressive thinking and designs.
Just because our country is run by a Texan doesn’t mean we are all dumbasses.
Fuck all this arguing. Why must you assume that America is rotten? The only reason to fight is fear. And the only thing to fear is our differences.
america SUX!!!!
whatever. why does everybody hate so much. you could actually ride this thing if you were drunk and stoned just fall down and let the gps drive you around. sick. thanks bill gates.
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it will feel awkward hanging from the device…
hitting a bump at high speeds would rip your arms apart and you would land on your face or chest.
I’d rather ride something that allows my hands to be free (and not absorbing the shocks), how else would I be able to whack zombies, or shoot the bird at you?
Haha…It looks cool but uh…don’t crash?
The Harley Davidson Assembly Plant used to be in Hiroshima before the Enola Gay dropped the Big Boy on it in 1945.
Wanna keep calling other nations stupid? If you do you better continue to get more friendly with China so you can try out some more biological stuff on them again like you did in the 1930s with a better designed hot air balloons?
Where do you buy your oil from? What did the late Edward Deming do for your economy under the guidance of Gen Douglas MacArthur? Did you get stupid again?
Do you get the connection between the above and your self professed arrogance toward super powers? Bonsai! Why don’t you name this Yamaha “Zero” It never was understood why the Kamikaze pilots wore crash helmets? You see any Yamaha rice-burners riding side by side the Harley legacy? A word of advice; Apologize before the Chinese offer to help your poor attitude again.
America is pretty legit, but our neighbors north are definitely more awesome in a much more subtle way. -And Rugby is the illest sport I’ve ever played.
Word Up.
This looks awesome… however its anything but practical. The designer is really only going for the aesthetic awesomeness of this, but isn’t a very good industrial designer. There are so many issues with this, it is obvious he really didn’t think about it as he was making this.
First of all, in a 10 mile an hour collision, a motorcyclist(on a Harley or other REAL motorcycle) would fall, possibly break his arm… a Scooter Driver would probably crush both their legs… a driver of this, would probably break their back, if not break both of their arms, and possibly worse… that is just from the placement of the driver.
If you look at the rest of the design, the helmet is built into the frame…what purpose is that? Basically the driver is completely in-sync with the bike, so whatever damage that happens to the bike is going to happen to them… Helmets are designed to take the entire impact if a rider is thrown from the bike, and lands on their head (or collides with something head first)… they break, but hopefully absorb the impact. This design completely prevents that from happening… if anything is prevents the rider from being thrown so if something happens… it is going to happen to them.
I was in a motorcycle accident a couple years ago… my bike was completely totaled (car made an illegal left turn from the right lane, right into me.) I was thrown from my bike, my arm was broken from the impact, but the rest of me was completely unscathed. If I was in the same accident with this bike, i probably wouldn’t be here.
Again, this bike is aesthetically awesome, and would be cool to see in a movie… but practically it isn’t a good idea… and I am sure the tech specs of this are completely fabricated… also a lot of schools do “design” work for clients, that are basically completely made up. I wouldn’t doubt if this is just one of those.
Because we are run by that Texan it proves that all of us are not stupid.
seriously all are fucking jews. you know what happens
America…Fokk ya
hey - I’m high, drunk, stupid AND American.
unfortunately not retarded…
I can’t wait to ride one of these
Stupid Americans! LOL
Exactly ! The same goes for riding a normaly configured bike,or a car,or even a skateboard. And because I am intelligent enough to comprehend that important fact,
I would love to take that machine out,and see what she’ll do.Looks like an
E-ticket ride to me.Great job,excillent vision,Awesome machine !
Love it.
you dicks can have a pissing contest all day,but if you think about it at the time that you and your fag buddy are arguing about America had only recently broken away from British rule (rember the American Revolution?) so Americans didn’t invent slavery (that shit had been going on since biblical time,hell probably been going on since before written hiustory)and if you would kindly rember America bought the African slaves from the DUTCH,and the BRITISH,with s sprinkling of other European nations thrown for good measure.Don’t forget those fucking Spanards.Hell they fucked up every country they went to(Mexico,Almost all of South America,any any where else they could kill,rape,rob and steal anything shiny or valuable),and while you were being raped,robbed,murdered,tortured,oh yea cant forget sodomized you were being told it was for your own good,your imortal soul(rember the Spanish Inquisition ? )
That’s right BITCHES !
EVERYONE in AMERICA is a FUCKING IMMIGRANT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rember where those ships came from ? Everybody IMMIGRATED here to get the fuck
out of wichever fucked up European country they were in.Espically after those nice guys you shits had running your countries(ie.Hitler,Stallin,Musollini,De Gaulle,Churhill,And numerous other Commie Bastards I can’t fucking rember,you fuckers act like George Bush is the first complete idotic ass hole that has ever ran a country),or just like when an American tells a Black person to “Go back where they came from”.#1-They didn’t come here on their own,and #2-Mother Fuckers,you aren’t from here either.So YOU go back where you came from.The FACT is Every one in the U.S. came from some fucked up European country.And I mean that in a nice way.(NOT)And it can be said that those early Americans involved in really fucking up the Native American Culture that was already here before the big exodus from across the pond,were ALL European Immigrants.So you are us,and we are you.Only we are better
I like your style,and whole hartedly agree.
The only thing I would have added was,”Fucking Gringos ?,Bitch you need to recodnize.Unless Spanish is a retarded language,and your dictionary can’t understsnd that jibber-jabber either.GRINGO,means “foreigner”.So that means all
of those jibber-jabbering idots I hear calling me and my friends “Gringos”,don’t even understand their own language.They are the Gringos here.So before you try and have a tantrum in someone elses language,please at least try to speak your own first.Thank you very much.
Well in that case my 9 1/2 inch cock is a British invention.And I would like to return it.So if you would just turn around and bend over (as so many of you faggot ass Europeans love to do)I’ll deliver it to you personally.
Own who ? You Scottish Bitch,you wear a fucking DRESS.(I know,it’s called a kilt,but it’s still a fucking skirt or a dress and only bitches wear that shit any way)So how the hell can YOU call someone else stupid ?
Yes we did,but you cant rape the willing now can you ?
Your women gave us the booty because you needle dick Britts couldn’t
give them what they needed.Evidently you still can’t,there are a lot of British bitches here in my area.I think maybe I’ll go to my local”pub” this evening and target one of them for my evenings amusement.I guess you British still do inspire some of us Americans to do great things.
Thanks “Bloke”
maybe the entire vehicle leans into the turn,the suspension system for the operator could be similar to a hang glider.Or a weather proof cocoon of some sort.As for the attached helmet maybe moving your head is the steering and your hands are controlling other functions,using touch pads under the fingers.Just a thought.May also use sensors imbedded in the road way,(saw this on the Learning Chanel)that is being experimented with in California.You set your destination
and the vehicle takes you to your destination,without you having to steer,brake or even pay attention for the majority of the ride.It’s futureistic,but it is
also very cool.
ha ha - it wouldn’t touch the sides!
look, by definition , americans are just cunts.
this motorcycle is fabulous
let me just say agan, though, americans are cunts
Why you gotta go and put “American” in it? Don’t go hatin just because you can’t be as good as us.
I despise the kind of American who thinks of himself as an American, and the Brit who thinks of himself as a Brit, and is so foolish as to speak for all other “Americans” or “Brits”. It is so simpleminded and juvenile, like cheering for one’s home team and thinking it means something if “your” team beats the other team, good lord GET A LIFE you dumb nationalist fucks who know nothing about other countries. I am an American and have lived all over the world, have not lived in the U.S. for nearly twenty years, and I wish people from all nations would live like this because they would come to understand that nationality is just a silly illusion built upon blind ignorance. I’ll quit now, but damn you guys ruin what should be an interesting forum about the sleek new concept and design for transportation, no it’s got to be about your dumb American or nonAmerican asses. whadeva…
To the rest of the world:
Not all Americans were in favor of the war, nor support it now. I for one would leave the country if I could afford to and plan on doing so after finishing my course of study.
Yes, a lot of Americans are retarded, stupid, and uncaring to their actions effect on the rest of the world. But, I’d like to remind you that there is a small population of America that is powerless to do anything but watch in horror as other Americans continue waging on a pointless war, filming themselves doing stupidly dangerous activities. This small population is saving up their devalued pennies to leave. So, I don’t care if you bash my home country (I do too); but please remember not all of us are as you describe the majority.
It was designed by an American, Jake Loniak
no it wasn’t
what part of strapped in do you not understand?
Goddamn, first I wanna say is the design is very different and cool. Then, second, is that America in general is abit bullheaded, just because one “can nuke” another, is not a sign of awesomeness. If so why not go and nuke Afghanistan and Pakistan to get bin Liden?? Why? because the American Economy can not afford to “bomb” everyone. It is on the verge of collapse. Wonder what it was like to see the Roman Empire collapse, I thikn we shall see first hand. Boy, where is my popcorn.
erm guys…every where suxs and is gr8t in its own ways….ill admit americal is pretty in your face so gets mentioned alot….
americas current strength is in part to the british post war goverments need for cash
and giving the americans the oil price control….thats why barrels are in us dollars this means if you want oil you buy dollars
oil…..hmmm think america is gonna fight russia now???
douche
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Half of your country voted for him… twice. ¬_¬
Thats kinda saying something.
only until you need us!
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America is fucking sick, its not becuase we like danger, and drugs, but because we are the biggest fags and the gayer we are the more pissed everyone gets, and the more attention we get. this is an endless cycle which makes Americans fags, in turn making us feel cool. It’s the best
Or if you manage to collect a post, since the outriggers will funnel it right up into your face/crotch.
I’ll stick to regular motorcycles, thank you very much.
AAGREEED
get behind a truck with gravel in it
Idiot, you knight Americans all the time.
i don’t think to many americans have left their own country……well only to bomb other becuase they’re so deep in their own bullsh”t that they are so oblivious of what other countries are doing you only bring other countries down with you
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I think what is absolutely ridiculous is that people like to generalize all of America when we are a country of 300 million people responsible for some of the greatest minds, technology, and economy in the history of the world.
Now, I am no super-patriotic flag-waving bush-supporting fascist. I totally despise a lot of Americans’ views (or lack of views) and am ashamed of many of the people in my country believe, have said, or done, especially post-9/11.
Still, if America is so universally retarded, then your countries are in the stone age. Who knows when the rest of the world would’ve gotten around to the light bulb or telphone or TV or airplane or nuclear energy or basic robotics or popularizing modern republicanism. Your civilizations peaked and America started over from where you left off, and you know it as well as anyone else. Capitalism wouldn’t have prospered without us, the Soviet Union would’ve won the Cold War (if anyone bothered to fight it), and, like it or not, we did save everyone’s ass in WW2.
Now does that forgive us for some of our recent ignorance? Not necessarily, but to assume that ALL Americans are stupid is a grave assumption, seeing as how our higher education system is by far the best in the entire world and claims about 43 or so of the world’s best 50 universities.
So go fuck yourself and play rugby right after you finish crying to your “constitutional monarch” and your shitty parliament who chooses your head of state for you, or in the case of our northern neighbors, have fun pretending your health care is awesome and that Quebec, the nation that produces your best officials and leaders, isn’t trying to declare independence every now and then.
Yeah, fucking right America is stupid. So awesome it’s stupid.
Grow up, kids.
corrections: Quebec is a province, not a nation. sorry for that.
and forgive a couple grammatical blunders as well.
oh, and we invented the internet you’re using to bitch about us. how ironic, if you think about it!
America being awesome actually makes Britain ultra awesome anyway because we made America, remember? And anyway, you Americans can’t spell.
awesomely stupid!……..what other nation would vote in bush for a second term?
everybody is so down on this bike.
i think it’s one of the most kickass things ever designed
That YouTube video was hilarious and just indescribable.
We should have stuck to what our Founding Fathers wanted, let the smart people vote.
Jesus Christ, man.
people,people,people. a wearable motorcycle. i can’t wait to see folks being scraped,peeled,hosed from the pavement,gaurdrails,bridge abutments of our great and awesome nation. can you pop a wheelie on one?
America has its problems but at least we don’t waste away in our own ignorance of other cultures. We all don’t talk shit about your nations.
Terrible idea–now there won’t even be any usable organs left to donate.
yeah damn Americans… wait doesn’t that say Yamaha on the back?
Is that thing totally back to front or…?
Shouldn’t the driver be above the exo-skeleton?
omg hahahaa!
Yea the device is pretty awesome. I’d be kinda scared of wrecks though.. though I would think it would be a lot better crashing in that device rather than in a motorcycle.. I’m sure you could use the machine as armor.
America kicks Ass
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kshqj1rIyEo&feature=email
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“America being awesome actually makes Britain ultra awesome anyway because we made America, remember? And anyway, you Americans can’t spell.”
Britain is so ultra awesome that we kicked your guys’ ass with a bunch of pitchforks!
DO WANT!!
Your comments are SUPPOSED to be about the motorcycle! The real ButtHoles are those who seize every opportunity to slander anyone they disagree with.
Regarding the motorcycle… I’d rather be lying on top of a bike, than dangling under one!
Stop with all the Political stuff. Where and when can I order one? Better yet get me 4 ea. I will get three of my fello, real motorcyclest to join me. We will go race the things. The rest of you can watch us have all the fun. Quit your bitchen and lighten up. Enjoy, I sure would. After 60 years of racing any thing I could get my hands on, this looks like a blast.
See you at the next start line. Remember, ‘When the flag drops the BS stops.’
PS It would be better with a 4 stroke 100 hp motorcycle motor in it.
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Awesome Bike !
I don’t care if it looks a little dangerous - it makes my adrenal glands surge just looking at it.
As for all the international dialogue.
Please remember, we’ve all done things we’re not proud of.
Hopefully, we’ll all eventually learn that each of us have made significant contributions to the overall well-being of the world and will learn to value that over everything else.
Nice design. It actully looks a bit more stable with the 3 wheeled design. I like the fact that it comes with a built in helmet.
Hit one bump and your gone! xD
kno won America rules.
great design! But there’s a reason you only see this kind of thing on sci-fi art, in fact there’s a ton of reasons, just off the top of my head.
Narrowed target market right there. The position of the body on acceleration is ridiculous, there’s only one other vehicle you “drive” like that - an hand glider, or delta wing - in wich case it’s fine since you’re not going to be looking upwards the whole ride, on this bike though, you’d end up with serious problems after regular use. Not to mention, unless that helmet comes with an air supply, you’d be sucking in on all the exhaust pipes on your way to work. Also, the attractiveness of being able to dodge traffic is gone on a three wheel vehicle like this, no way you’ll be going between cars with it.
First of all you need an whole different class of license to be eligible to drive this, you’d also have to be fit to do it, so it seems like in order to drive the bike you’d first have to jog a lot…
If it’s indeed up for manufacturing: good luck!
best invention ever, and u wouldnt die any faster than on a normal motorcycle so stop bitching
Wow… almost nothing about the design …. stop fucking getting off topic you idiots >< great design, might be kool if you could make it a little more practical, and less dangerous… rather then max of 70 (or 60 i can’t remember anymore after all the posts) make it like 40 so it’s an ‘in town’ vehicle rather then trying to go on free ways w/ a hour battery life.
Hell Yes !!! I want one ASAP !!!
ThinkBike dot co dot za
PS : Extending the Yamaha connection - Imagine one with an R1 motor !!!
i think it would be cool to try to drive it in a cleared out warehouse or somthin
Why am I suddenly reminded of an episode of south park?
South Park resemblance indeed.
A really cool idea…
where’s the cupholder and gunrack?
Why isnt anyone talking about what would happen if fat people tried to ride this thing
A: They would never fit
B: If so, OMFG LOOK AT THE FAT DRAGING ON THE ROAD MOM.
Could you imagine taking some road debris to the nuts at 75mph? Like a good sized rock, or a chunk of tire tread off a transport. Would make for a good futuristic movie vehicle though.
Looks like a Light(tri)cycle.
Elathen has it right. An idea very much informed by the film Tron. As a lifelong rider, I’d certainly have a go on one. As for all the anti-American sentiment, save it for another site, assclowns. You’re just a bunch of fucking internet Rambos.
God, like American intelligence is just another fairy tale made up by the rulers to fool and control the foolish.
I think some of the posters in here are suffering from delusions of adequacy…..
a good shrink would help..
Why so negative? Why so scared for safety? If the Wright brothers had been as safety conscious as our societies obviously are we never would have gotten off the ground. You people are lost, try something new, live a little. How could you not see this as an advancement. It looks rather Anime-ish, but what do you expect from Yamaha? Sign me up, I’ll take an off-road version too!
Americans are … retarded.
we r just alot cooler then all of u other ppl in the world. lol. jk jk.
LOOKS AMAZING! but its a non starter, the driving position would give you bad nech ache.
and if the traffic stopped. then you would take a bumper in the face.
also.. in wheel eletric motors. 70mph?? haha joker! the batteries would have to go on a trailer towed behind.
i’d have a go tho! for shizzle!
This is Sci Fi…
Can’t believe..
I dont like the idea of having my head attached to a vehicle, especially when you happen to crash and the vehicle stops… and you go flying. Atleast if Im gonna die in an accident, I want there to be some chance of me still having a head at my funeral.
imagine one or 4 pumps failing
Wow, some of you are some real … “What if traffic stops?” Uhh, you use the brakes and slow down, like a normal fucking person.
Limit the speed to 20mph?! Gimme a break, that kind of uber-restriction belongs in the UK, not in the US. 75mph is perfectly fine.
The rest of you are just lame.
The bike should lay back instead of forward!
well it looks like it has potential to it.
there are a few problems though:
1. one hour of driving wont last you that long, some people are stuck for in traffic for that long, it needs a longer batterie life.
2. (though i do not know alot about this) it does not look like the safest thing in the world, you guys said that you are held in by something that is 2X stronger than a regular seat belt. well the problem is with a seatbelt there is something there to connect whith, in this you’re already in it.
well it might not be the most sophistcated post but im just giving my opinion.
and btw i would buy one.
Needs more lights to be seen. Not sure about going over rough road.
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