OMFG.... new superbike being developed

[tomski_w]

I think I just done a sex wee..............

120kgs, 170bhp, 220mph, OMFG!!

I sooo can't wait for this, except not gonna be released for a (possibly) decent price until at least 2010

Check out the video clip
https://www.motorcyclespecs.co.za/pic%20of%20weak/Ecosse-Spirit%20ES1.htm

Check out the pics
https://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/mcn/2007/June/june4-10/jun0607spirites1picturegallery/

More info
https://www.news.myspace.com/autos/motorcycles/item/5246302

[Dazbo666]

Calm yourself down Tom, you've got plenty of time to save up
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[Klause]

Looks like crap, some of this stuff just doesn't work together. The front seems like the elf race bike, nothing majorly new.
That final drive system looks terrible and I ask myself why? How much power do they loose through that? Not alot but isnt this is a race bike?

I can see a few errors, nice ideas some already done before but doesn't mean they all work together. I think they should stick to F1.
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[Walloper]

Cant see it.
My damned firewall prohibits anything containing MCN.....
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[Dalemac]

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Hmm and MCN. Do i dare believe it?
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[APNess]

MCN...

So, it'll never actually appear in the real world then. Shame.

Next!

[Rob]

[Blackwolf]

Get a bit windy???..d. on' think at that speed you could hold on.... unless you had arms like mine

Wolf
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[Itchy]

That strangely looks like bikes from comic books from the 80s, minus the gigantic spherical wheels and hub centre steering as in Akira, though Kaneda's bike seemed more like a maxi scooter than a bike.
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[feef]

the aero dynamics are only REALLY going to benefit the bike in it's straightline performance. There's little point of having a bike that can top out at 240mph, if the riding position makes it awkward to handle in twisties.

I can see what their getting at with regards to rider position, and narrowing the bike at the pegs to allow a grteater lean angle for a reduced grounsd clearance. However, I believe racers rarely sit on the seat, and are 'dancing' on the foot pegs all the time, shifting weight and body position left and right to aid the handling of the bike.

By narrowing the bike at the pegs, I suspect it will upset the handling, as you'll have less leverage to move yourself about.

Try standing with your feet shoulder width apart and then swing your body left and right. You can go a helluva lot further than if you stand with your feet tight together.

I see this bike as a technical exercise, engineering masturbation, proof of what can be done, and something to make bike engineers think out the box, not a praactical production, nor even race machine.

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[Blackwolf]

missed that bit
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[Pete.]

[Pete.]

It will be interesting to see if it actually performs the figures they state (supposing it's not a wind-up).

They are making a big deal about the lowered frontal-area and the narowed back-end where the feet tuck-in. The front-end isn't so important on a bike and anyway the widest part of the average human body is the shoulders and you can't easily shrink them.

There's far more gain to be had from cleaning-up the air as it leaves the rear of the bike and from their models it looks like they can do that quite well by getting the rider's spine quite flat letting the air flow over it smoothly.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good

[st3v3]

oh... dear
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[Blackwolf]

Woo some one to my rescue
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