TO BOLDLY GO: VTOPIA MAKES THE VYRUS EVEN WILDER
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Re: TO BOLDLY GO: VTOPIA MAKES THE VYRUS EVEN WILDER
I doubt its gonna be a popular opinion, but there's very little I'd change about those. Well, except for making it electric maybe 
I've always loved the Bimota Tesi and this is one step further.
I've always loved the Bimota Tesi and this is one step further.
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The chap behind the $20k kit is an architect, so it will look marv but never quite work properly and need a complete refurb in 2 years time. 
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Its supposed to look like 1997 Playstation graphics.Potter wrote: ↑Sun Feb 20, 2022 8:23 am There is a lot about it I like, but I don't know why they've gone out of their way to put all those triangles on it, it looks like something you'd find in a 1970's school book about what motorbikes will look like in the year 2000. It's not horrific or anything, but it seems like a lot of work to make it look just ok.
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Stealth Tech has moved on from the F117.
But I do like it.
But I do like it.
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Hideous. Origami with an engine in. Wouldn't have one if they were free. 
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Like that. Function over form.
Bit of the Wall-E about it too
Bit of the Wall-E about it too
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Re: TO BOLDLY GO: VTOPIA MAKES THE VYRUS EVEN WILDER
He cant even plant vinesCount Steer wrote: ↑Sun Feb 20, 2022 8:29 am The chap behind the $20k kit is an architect, so it will look marv but never quite work properly and need a complete refurb in 2 years time.
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Re: TO BOLDLY GO: VTOPIA MAKES THE VYRUS EVEN WILDER
Dunno how anyone can hate it compared to some of the customs we've seen. Look at the size of that front mudguard!
I deffo prefer the SMC carbon one...the one with the sort of cammo splattered look. That's the natural look of SMC carbon, its used loads in Lamborghinis. The other one with the woven carbon has a horrible mismatch of weave directions and also a "load of bits" exhaust.
So yeah. Anyone wanna loan me $20k so I can buy it? Oh and then another $100 so I can get a seat cushion made for it.
I'd also change that corner in the exhaust under the swingarm. I can see why its a loadsa bits one, it's so it can make that tight bend, but there are better ways of doing it. They've mentioned 3D printing for example, you could print that bend in Titanium albeit at a hefty cost.
I deffo prefer the SMC carbon one...the one with the sort of cammo splattered look. That's the natural look of SMC carbon, its used loads in Lamborghinis. The other one with the woven carbon has a horrible mismatch of weave directions and also a "load of bits" exhaust.
So yeah. Anyone wanna loan me $20k so I can buy it? Oh and then another $100 so I can get a seat cushion made for it.
I'd also change that corner in the exhaust under the swingarm. I can see why its a loadsa bits one, it's so it can make that tight bend, but there are better ways of doing it. They've mentioned 3D printing for example, you could print that bend in Titanium albeit at a hefty cost.
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I looks weird, but in a kind of function-over-form kind of way.
I wouldn't mind it, if it works.
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I'm intrigued by the technology... I wonder if it works better than the Tesi or the Yamaha GTR1000... and I could live without the styling though I can see how the angles of the bodywork follow the angle of the V engine configuration and the triangular structures in the frame.
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It'll be cool when it's finished with higher bars and a full fairing. 
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Re: TO BOLDLY GO: VTOPIA MAKES THE VYRUS EVEN WILDER
Count Steer wrote: ↑Sun Feb 20, 2022 8:29 am The chap behind the $20k kit is an architect, so it will look marv but never quite work properly and need a complete refurb in 2 years time.
Looks like they drew an isometric and the builder thought it was an orthographic so made it on the piss.
I quite like the basics of the bike but it just doesn't look like anything with an endoskeleton would find it comfortable.