A curious contrivance..
Great pix, thanks.
Having difficulty finding any coherence--either as 'sculpture?' or as functioning, handling machine..
It could pass as an (opium-) pipe-dream, sorta.
'Sculpture' generally depicts flowing-lines as limn some recognizable life-process, its materials being mostly secondary. How you meld that vision
..with hi-tech, hi-$$ precision gew-gaws in an assemblage which betrays not any flow from 'function' towards eye-candy ... escapes my ken.
The clever fasteners are things of beauty And function, etc. but.. where's coherence?
How Heavy is this sucker going to be? Who is the target-driver? (eye-candy Show? eeroling in the twisties--with that wheelbase? Nope, don't see any clues there.)
The bare-frame shot is interesting; so was HRD's/Vincent's near no-frame strategy; machine-work superb--20 μ-in spec? Clutch-plate pic is ~~ same as the small primary one of a Vincent.
But in both cases a secondary/servo-action centrifugal-type thing is mandatory, for a 'light' feel with muscle behind it.
Guess he's got that but didn't see it.
Love the (Vincent again!) 'girder'-forks for unequalled lateral rigidity, as decision. That plus modern concepts , materials for reducing unsprung weight--should Work.
Finally, no 300 mph methinks, unless the whole kit is cocooned in a non-maneuverable cigar-shaped cylinder.
That would hide the clash from super-machined bits stacked in engineeringly-sane ways (but weird to look at?) via a pretty exterior.
So, beyond Bonneville in cigar-trim, later removed and fitted with [What?] ... in what territory do you Ride this dream?
(If he's to make only 3 and has no slightest interest in playing manufacturer/tycoon? maybe that Q. is moot?) He and a few friends might get to play.
Who wants to be the first to drop it? [Nobody, of course.]
(It reminds me of a tool & die-maker's similar dream; he'd replaced the Girdraulic™ forks on this Vincent with some not-very-trick ordinary teles; polished, replaced most fasteners with allen-type; sexy exhaust system, solo saddle etc. Gorgeously-finished w/ surreal paint--I took it to work once, let the machinists drool over the execution.)
But it handled like a pig; the sit-up-and-beg handlebars defeated the entire Point of a V's short-bars: its perfect body position for hi-speed effortless careening
and minimal wind-force on upper-body. Powerful engine in a frame where you'd be silly to try and Use it :-/
==reason I asked, How Heavy is this sucker? Better: Will it er, Handle-well?
Maybe he'll surprise us all !?
Ed: PS: the leaf-spring! IS innovative, and uses the space exactly, where Vincent's narrow steel oil tank (covered by petrol tank) formed the rigid top of its 'frameless'-design.
One could almost see modifying a V. similarly (!) as its rear chassis components just bolted on to the power unit and its boxed springs there: could disappear.
Can already see some sprung/unsprung savings, a mag-alloy replacement for oil tank, etc.
Had I a ton of $$ and some real engr. assist ... Hmmm. It's FUN having a blank-check to imagineer, innit?
Nice touch, the little dog wandering by.. must be tolerant of weird noises and smells.
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Ashton
May 22, 2014, 11:31:26 PM EDT