WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

[OB_Dirty Pete]

Defectron, you've described a good setup for urban pacification.

Let's take your bike as a basis, and add a few items for more comprehensive effectiveness.

What about seat belts? Screw getting high sided when you're dodging curare darts. You stay with your bike or die.

A medicine cabinet. I bet you didn't think about that, eh? Well when you're feeling drowsy from 500 miles of strafing, you wouldn't even have to stop. You could just reach down into the drawer under the rad hose and pull out some bennies. Problem solved.

Central self-destruct plastique pack. If you get separated from your Busa against your will...like by a tow truck driver or FalconCOP161..you can pre-program your bike to blow. We must not let this Busa technology fall into the wrong hands.

Finally, the ultimate weapon. A coin dispenser. No more fumbling through your 47 zipper pockets for pocket change. A parking guy demands $3.75...you just whip it out and take off before the sucker can even swallow his beef jerk.

With these additions to your concept, Defectron, we can rule.

[This message has been edited by Dirty Pete (edited 30 August 1999).]

 

[OB_Zarniwoop]

But it wouldn'y be called aHayabusa then, it'd be called a Honda Goldwing

Frats

Z

 

[OB_Buffalo]

zarniwoop, You got it bro. I have most of that stuff on the K bike(not the fantasy disco stuff) there are plenty of two wheeled cars IMHO, Goldwing indeed! Now defectron's stuff...... yummm... talk about defensive driving, ooooooh yeah!

 

[OB_Dirty Pete]

Because of the "Great Leap Forward" the Hayabusa represents, there's a lot of discussion about where motorcycles are headed. And most of the discussion and industry energy is centered around horsepower and handling (ZX12, Norton Nemesis, Honda 1600).

I'm as much of a speedfreak as the next guy, but aren't bikes seriously overdue for some improvements in other areas?

Power and handling are givens. They will continue to creep up bit by bit in the natural course, but power and handling will never be sustainable competitive advantages for any one mass production bike maker.

And hey, if you're in serious need of power or handling, you don't wait for the manufacturers anyway...you can improve them big time and real quick for cheap in the aftermarket and the tuner's shed.

I'm frustrated that, as much as I love power and handling, little of the industry's R&D energy is put into other aspects of the machine.

The cage builders are so far ahead of us that even the most advanced bike is primitive in many ways when compared to modern performance cars.

Can you imagine a Hyabusa that offered the following features with little or no weight penalty?

1. Fingertip electronic up and down shifting like Grand Prix cars or the Porsche Tiptronic.

2. Heads Up Display that comes up on your visor. Speed and RPMs. Bloody Pontiacs have had this on their windshields for years.

3. Run flat tires. Who needs them more than us?

4. Rake and wheelbase adjustability.

5. Road clearance adjustability.

6. Handlebar height adjustability.

7. Push button, instant suspension settings (soft, medium, track).

8. Oil temp and oil pressure gauges integrated into the dash. Duhhhh.

9. A two position windshield that flips up and out for dramatically improved wind protection when that's what you want.

10. Quick release fasteners on fairings, tank, seat, airbox so you can strip the bike naked in seconds.

11. Fully enclosed drive chain with self oiling.

12. True reverse.

13. Exterior plugs for 12 volt take-off, battery charging, jump starting, engine diagnostics and engine warming.

14. A "valet" lock that cuts available power in half.

15. Impact resistant bodywork like the Saturn car.

16. A fully stocked, refrigerated bar.

17. ??????????????????????

What's YOUR wish list look like?




[This message has been edited by Dirty Pete (edited 30 August 1999).]

 

[OB_gurrera]

17 shaft drive.
18 shift counter
19 selft adj. lifters

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[OB_terra1]

How much have you been charged to valet park your Hayabusa?

 

[OB_hsantos]

I can agree on you in about 99%.

Sure i would be very happy if i could have such items on my bike...but, there's always a but what about $$$$$.

Try to fit a car with such items and the same top speed of the Busa...can you imagine ?? Has i remember, ferraris, for instance, are very low on extras, right ??

The most developed bikes, on that matter, like the BMW's, crawls on the road.

Am i making sense ?? But i do prefer the speed, altough if affordable i'll prefer the complete Deluxe package.

 

[OB_Cisco San Jose]

1.Replacement engine size,quick release so that when you show your insurace company that you are riding a 150cc bike and not a 1300cc/170hp bike.Lower insurance rates.
Slap in the 1300cc for weekend fun.
2.Full automatic anti-radar gun system locks in on radar and sends back 25mph speed to cops unit.
3.low jack anti-theif system to track your bike if stolen.IBM bar code on all parts that are put on your bike for easy tracking of you bike parts if striped/parted after stolen.

 

[OB_Dirty Pete]

Terra 1, I had a Corvette ZR-1 in 1991 and it had this half-power valet key feature. Thanks to that key, I was able to let my son, who was then 19, use my car.

I don't leave my bike with valets and I don't lend my bike out, but I figure that if my Busa had this feature, I would be able to ride drunk in complete safety.

I would name this feature the FalconCOP switch.

Hsantos, if some of these items were options over the base bike, people could buy what they could afford. Your English is great...keep posting!

 

[OB_defectron]

1. Fully automated, high caliber chain guns (one front one rear).
2. Front rocket launcher.
3. Rear oil spiller.
4. Bullet proof riding gear, with some details on the helmet:eye-on targetting, x-ray/infrared vision.
5. Retractable wings.
6. Bullet proof fairings.
7. Few thousand watts built on sound system.

 

[OB_Velociraptor]

When I got back into bikes after a ten year layoff I was really surprised how low tech the bike still were. It has to do with MONEY. F1 and Indycars as well as factory sports racing cars are very high tech, but then the huge auto industry can afford to support the expenses involved. Just look at F1 motorcycles as well as World Superbike. Still not that removed from a Hayabusa or other sport bikes in terms of base technology. Probably motorcyle technology lags behind cars for the mass market because the motorcycle devlopers have to wait for the price of technology to drop enough to make it profitable in the our smaller(compared to cars) market. I think that F1 motorcycle and World Superbike have a great opportunity at the moment to get very popular since F1 auto racing is so boring. Follow the leader. The racing at the A1 ring was totally entertaining and exciting! Do we need higher tech??

 

[Frank Adams]

defectron, you need to make the first hayabusa video game....lol..frank