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Red Kittie Kat
10-04-2008, 06:20 PM
The transportation program at the Art Center College of Design has produced legendary car designers, including BMW chief of design Chris Bangle and Henrik Fisker, the creator of the Fisker Karma electric supercar. But this year, after professor Bumsuk Lim’s inaugural motorcycle-design class, the buzz is all about bikes, especially Jake Loniak’s exoskeleton motorcycle concept Deus Ex Machina.
http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/article_image_large/files/articles/studentrads_0.jpg
Make sure you watch the video :cool:
Full Story (http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2008-08/wearable-motorcycle)
That's not a motorcycle. That's a trike. ;)
garricks
10-05-2008, 01:09 AM
Wow. That's different! Not for me, though. And I'd probably wreck my car if I saw one while on the road! ;)
I would love it! When I ride my bike, I love scraping down along the ground in tight leans at drastic angles, as the road rips along inches from my feet (or maybe not even that far away - I tend to scrape up my boots quite a bit when I turn). This contraption looks like it might get me even closer to the road I love. ;)
Red Kittie Kat
10-05-2008, 01:40 AM
I love how it looks and moves .. pretty cool ;)
I love how it looks and moves .. pretty cool ;)
I just watched the video, Red. That looks like so much fun! Blows the Segway out of the water. ;)
Red Kittie Kat
10-05-2008, 01:47 AM
hell yeah lol :D
Optimusdinkus
10-05-2008, 03:22 PM
wouldn't it be uncomfortable having to bend your knees like that while you are just moving around slightly. I wonder the cost an engeneer wants to take out on making this thing real.....
wouldn't it be uncomfortable having to bend your knees like that while you are just moving around slightly.
You've never ridden a real motorcycle before, have you? ;) That would actually be a very comfortable position for a bike rider.
Navian
10-05-2008, 04:51 PM
Reminds me of those Wheelers, from the movie Return to Oz.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2102/1583824909_c6216570b7.jpg?v=0
Optimusdinkus
10-05-2008, 06:35 PM
You've never ridden a real motorcycle before, have you? ;) That would actually be a very comfortable position for a bike rider. right, but I mean if your in the upright stages of using the bike (like trying to park it having to have your knees bent in an upright position). Not that I'm presuming that I myself have ever touched a motorcycle before +).
Riefnu
10-06-2008, 12:55 AM
I see two major problems. 1 safety. A motorcycle atleast hits first, and KINDA takes some of the crash. In this you're the first contact surface for most of the possible accidents. Motorcycle forks can be replaced and rashed skin regrown, but severed limbs and crushed organs can't, yet.
also if its a "green" machine its missing the ability to transport additional things besides one single passenger. Making it useless in anything but city traffic, and walking is greener than that.
This is cooler if they can ever get it to someone that will actually mass produce it. http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/08/the_hybrid_mini.php
Typically
10-06-2008, 01:08 PM
Reminds me of those Wheelers, from the movie Return to Oz.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2102/1583824909_c6216570b7.jpg?v=0
that is exactly what i was thinking of when i saw it in motion!
pretty neat idea but really doubt it'll ever get produced