The future of motorbike after the combustion engine?

[Dizzy]

David is the only person who mentioned what for me has to be one of the biggest +'s for riding a bike...

ADRENALIN

The adrenalin rush I get/got from riding is second to nothing I've ever done. Whether it' trying to stay upright on a C90 round a muddy track, making sparks with my pegs on mountain roads in the South of France or just pootling around country lanes, it's exhileration beyond belief.

As well as all the other things everyone else mentioned.

[bigredsprint]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRpMV-Gf0hA

[markprez]

Hi guys, sorry for the lack of input been away for a few days.

Thanks for your input, its been useful to understand what you like about bikes and biking, i understand that the noise factors is huge for motor bikes and is something that will be hard to replace.

You have to remember that this project is about thinking of the future and what might happen, so its not a case of taking away the current combustion engine from you when it still can be used, this scenario is for when there isnt the possible use of such a powertrain, therefore trying to further the future of biking after the combustion engine.

I would like the bike to be influenced by the powertrain, however this means its not going to be a plastic box on wheels!

[adobiker]

You have to remember that this project is about thinking of the future and what might happen......


you have to remember no one gives a fuck. best advice is, go buy a bike, ride it like a twat for several years before attempting to re-design something that doesn't need re-designing.

[Archangel]

Mark.

What Ado was trying to say, in his clumsy northern patois, is that your question is largely irrelevent to current riders of motorbikes.

The pleasure they get from a two-wheeled machine powered by the combustion engine, (nobody says "powertrain, by the way, except researchers and engineers who've never ridden) is inseparable from and totally dependant on the means of propulsion.

The smell, the sound, the actual feel of the engine, makes it what it is.

Take that away and you have nothing.

You probably wont even have a thing known as a "motorbike", as such, in the future non-carbon world.

You're starting at the wrong end : posit the type of energy needed or available for transportation first, then design the vehicle which carries it.

I'd send the project back to your lecturers with a big question mark over it.

[Archangel]

You mean without the rudeness, but with clarity and insight.

[adobiker]

no.... i mean without the gayness.


Gayerer....

[Archangel]

Interesting.

The articulate presentation of a concept, with a cogent and incisive arguement is considered gay in Yorkshire.

That explains an awful lot.

[adobiker]

i prefer pictures meself....

[Archangel]

Of course you do.

Reading hurts your head, doesn't it old thing.