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Interesting bike design, by an Insurance company

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:43 pm
by Kwackerz
PDF File, Swann Motorcycle of the Future

Pics and further bumph can be found here:

http://www.industryresearch.com.au/motorcycle/


I particularly like the blindspot indicator

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and the Tyre pressure warning

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Although there's lots of features worthy of note!
The actual bike itself doesnt look too shabby a design either..

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:18 pm
by Gio
Beats me, how advanced bikes are yet they rely on the most primitive of drive trains

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:27 pm
by Kwackerz
True.

A better system than Chain, Belt or Shaft?

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 7:38 pm
by Gio
Kwackerz wrote:True.

A better system than Chain, Belt or Shaft?
Must admit for me a shaftie is best as we have all sorts of crap littering our roads that can damage a chain or belt.

Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:05 pm
by Fausto
How about Drive By Wire. Sort of like the latest Throttle connections.
A sensor at the drive shaft transmits the engines output to a small electric motor at the back wheel which powers the rear sprocket. It could be done wirelessly :smt003

Hell, it may even be possible to lose the actual sprockets as well as the chain.

It would be very clean.


Should I patent it? :smt020

Posted: Mon Oct 29, 2007 5:07 pm
by Kwackerz
I would...

Just before barricading the door from the men in white coats.. :smt005 :smt005