90k for a production bike???

[xX-Alex-Xx]

https://www.visordown.com/news/new-bikes/resurrected-high-tech-electric-%C2%A390000-arc-vector-finally-ready

https://cdn.visordown.com/styles/v2_mid/s3/field/image/arc-vector-header-2.jpg%20copy.jpg



The only way I can describe the price is this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGn25URIss8
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DILLIGAF

[ThunderGuts]

I skim-read that expecting to see something revolutionary, like absurd power or super lightweight . . . but no, it all seems a bit meh. Perhaps what you'd expect in a £20k electric bike. But £90k. How on earth are they justifying it?!
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TG.

[xX-Alex-Xx]

[A100man]

[pepperami]

Fck-me! That’s ugly
It looks like something out of the later Terminator films .
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[trevor saxe-coburg-gotha]

It looks like Alien - i'd half expect to turn the key and the headlight open up, and a smaller version of the headlight pop out on a stalk
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Mobylette Type 50 ---> Raleigh Grifter ---> Neval Minsk 125

[xX-Alex-Xx]

[Ste]

Arc Origin represents a game-changing advance in intelligent technology. Creating a more immersive ride experience. ​Utilising High-definition Audio transducers embedded in Knox armour, Arc Origin communicates with the rider using haptic feedback ​wirelessly. Controlled via the bikes on-board vehicle control unit, the transducers are able to provide real-time advanced rider assistance systems (ARAS) using the on-board sensors, cameras and radar etc.​This feedback may vibrate to alert of a potential hazard, provide dynamic performance-based feedback, or enhance the thrilling sensation when on a stimulating ride

There are 3 modes to the system:

Urban Mode
Focused on safety. Alerting the rider to dangers such as vehicles in their blind spot with a moving tap, working it’s way intuitively up the riders back as the hazard gets closer, or full body notification for a forward collision warning.

Sports Mode
Rider feedback on the bike’s dynamic position, using G-Force related data from the on bike sensors to provide a graduated level of feedback. This tells the rider how close to machine is to the limit. The harder you brake the more feedback you receive.

Euphoric Mode
For the thrill of the moment. This allows the rider to play music through the haptics while riding, simulating the bass through the haptic transducers. This technology has been refined from the entertainment world.



https://www.arcvehicle.com/news/human-machine-interface.html

It sounds like it would quickly get annoying.

[WD Forte]

If its got HUD n all that fancy shit why aint it got a visor wiper FFS
Not interested in saving lives are they?
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[Ste]

[xX-Alex-Xx]

[droog]

I would be surprised if a serious bike enthusiast with the means and inclination to spend 90/100k on a bike would choose the Arc electric bike over something like a Ducati Superlegerra - unless they are so wealthy they can have both.

Arc say their order books are looking healthy, so maybe there is enough money and enthusiasm sloshing around out there to successfully manufacture and sell a bike like this.
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Even more boring in real life . . .

[WD Forte]

Healthy order book eh?


Arc vehicle limited dissolved in Nov 2021

sauce:
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10702899/filing-history
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[to v or not to v]

that bike is uglier than some of the women ive dated
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current bike Yamaha Thunderace.
its old and fat, but its a damned good ride. the bikes not bad either.

[Ste]

[Honda434]

[droog]

[WD Forte]

200 mile range eh?
That might, just might, get me to the Ace cafe up that London and back if the ad blurb is to be trusted ( it usually cant)

Looking past all that shit about eurythmic response, slapstick feedback and shiny arty pitchers, it's just yer typical ad copy.

It looks tiny and uncomfortable to me
what a load of shite

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.soymotero.net%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Fmax_width_800px%2Fpublic%2F2020-10%2Farc_vector_01.jpg%3Fitok%3DnfEYgWSV&f=1&nofb=1
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[A100man]

[droog]

[Fat Angry Scotsman]

that bike is fucking ghastly mate
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[xX-Alex-Xx]

This makes the first bike look attractive...

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/motorbike-looks-future-we-always-dreamed

https://www.topgear.com/sites/default/files/2022/01/UMC-063_ZERO-XP_%C2%A9AaronBrimhall_42I8856.jpg?w=892&h=502


I get that manufacturers want to make "modern" looking bike, but they're doing a shit job of it. To me it almost looks like what someone in the 70s would have drawn if they were asked to draw a bike 60-70 years in the future.
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DILLIGAF

[droog]