Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: 400+MPH V10 Motorcycle!

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-02-27 11:48pm

I'd be impressive, if we hadn't already had a thread on it.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-02-27 11:55pm

Cap'n Hector wrote:It's cool, but where could you do 400 besides some parts of Utah? I mean, that eats up the road...

A little place called the Plains of Wyoming, that or the southwest, there are stretches of road 80 miles long without a trace of a curve.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-02-28 12:00am

NF_Utvol wrote:
Cap'n Hector wrote:It's cool, but where could you do 400 besides some parts of Utah? I mean, that eats up the road...
A little place called the Plains of Wyoming, that or the southwest, there are stretches of road 80 miles long without a trace of a curve.

And pray you don't hit an armadillo at 400MPH...

ROFLMAO!

Cap'n Hector · Post by **Cap'n Hector** » 2003-02-28 12:01am

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
NF_Utvol wrote:
Cap'n Hector wrote:It's cool, but where could you do 400 besides some parts of Utah? I mean, that eats up the road...
A little place called the Plains of Wyoming, that or the southwest, there are stretches of road 80 miles long without a trace of a curve.
And pray you don't hit an armadillo at 400MPH...

ROFLMAO!

Heh...all of a sudden I see a real-life version of the JATO Darwin...

Alferd Packer · Post by **Alferd Packer** » 2003-02-28 12:23am

Man, that thing would be great fun off the line, though.

Necro99 · Post by **Necro99** » 2003-02-28 12:53am

Me wants.
Now.

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2003-02-28 01:14am

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:And pray you don't hit an armadillo at 400MPH...

ROFLMAO!

OH FUCK!!! That's a nasty mental image... *THWOMP!!!* (bike screaming up into the air at a 45+ degree angle and then landing again turning the rider into hamburger and sliding for about a mile... Meanwhile the armadillo still looks intact but the shell contains red goo...)

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-02-28 01:15am

Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
NF_Utvol wrote:
Cap'n Hector wrote:It's cool, but where could you do 400 besides some parts of Utah? I mean, that eats up the road...
A little place called the Plains of Wyoming, that or the southwest, there are stretches of road 80 miles long without a trace of a curve.
And pray you don't hit an armadillo at 400MPH...

ROFLMAO!

I think this "thing" would be restricted to salt flats.

Balrog · Post by **Balrog** » 2003-02-28 01:37am

Alan Bolte wrote:Anyone here played the Extreme-G games?
All it needs is some missiles.

Now I know why it looked so familiar....

*imagines tracking missiles popping out of the back of that thing*

Whole new meaning to "road rage"

(another good game, too)

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-02-28 02:20am

There's nothing new under the sun.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-02-28 02:39am

Isn't 400MPH something like 640KPH!?

This is obscene.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-02-28 02:43am

Gandalf wrote:Isn't 400MPH something like 640KPH!?

This is obscene.

1.606 kilometers in a mile, so yes. This motorcycle is faster then many WW2 fighters.

Hyperion · Post by **Hyperion** » 2003-02-28 03:40am

Sea Skimmer wrote:
Gandalf wrote:Isn't 400MPH something like 640KPH!?

This is obscene.
1.606 kilometers in a mile, so yes. This motorcycle is faster then many WW2 fighters.

1 pebble in your path and you're a greasy red smear over at least a mile of pavement. (but at least you had fun doing it!)

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-02-28 03:45am

Hyperion wrote:
Sea Skimmer wrote:
1.606 kilometers in a mile, so yes. This motorcycle is faster then many WW2 fighters.

1 pebble in your path and you're a greasy red smear over at least a mile of pavement. (but at least you had fun doing it!)

IIRC, the world's largest motorcycle was built for some Russia aristocrat around 1910, and could carry eight people. Now if we combine that ones capacity and this ones speed and lack of sanity just what would we have? Worlds most lethal unarmed vehicle?

Cap'n Hector · Post by **Cap'n Hector** » 2003-02-28 03:51am

Sea Skimmer wrote:IIRC, the world's largest motorcycle was built for some Russia aristocrat around 1910, and could carry eight people. Now if we combine that ones capacity and this ones speed and lack of sanity just what would we have? Worlds most lethal unarmed vehicle?

Where would the bullet trains be on that scale? If one of those hit you there'd be very little left. Of course, I don't know what kind of safety features they have....

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-02-28 09:41am

You'd need Goddamn Jedi reflexes to ride that thing. I'll take 10.

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-02-28 10:18am

Forget this thing. When are they mass-producing those futuristic motorcycles from Akira???

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2003-02-28 10:37am

Problem is, any guy riding with THAT between his legs cannot fail to be accused of overcompensation.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2003-02-28 11:02am

Simon H.Johansen wrote:Forget this thing. When are they mass-producing those futuristic motorcycles from Akira???

Actually I want a lightcycle from Tron. That would be cool with the energy wall behind it blowing up stuff.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-02-28 11:11am

Enforcer Talen wrote:it looks absurd.

I wonder how it would handle in the hills of new england. . .

lol, it wouldn't. shit you could jump the cape cod canal with that thing! hey, that sounds like fun!

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2003-02-28 11:13am

Get ready to play TRON 2.0 then when it comes out, Neolong

http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/20 ... een002.jpg

Peregrin Toker · Post by **Peregrin Toker** » 2003-02-28 12:04pm

Lagmonster wrote:Problem is, any guy riding with THAT between his legs cannot fail to be accused of overcompensation.

Are you talking about the Dodge Tomahawk, the lightcycles from Tron or those bikes from Akira??

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-02-28 12:09pm

Short of getting the X-15 and attaching Michelin tires to the front and back, this "bike" is rather badass.

Post by **Lagmonster** » 2003-02-28 12:42pm

Simon H.Johansen wrote:
Lagmonster wrote:Problem is, any guy riding with THAT between his legs cannot fail to be accused of overcompensation.
Are you talking about the Dodge Tomahawk, the lightcycles from Tron or those bikes from Akira??

Pick one, really, but honestly the Tomahawk is the living embodiment of the male phallic overzealousness (short of that giant snow willy they built at Harvard the other week).