 The latest car-engined motorcycle
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actually a cool idea and i bet that motor actually works pretty well being a flat 4
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hot roasted nuts 
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Looks top heavy... I suppose it isn't but it does look that way.
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Actually with the flat 4 it's probably got an excellent center of gravity.
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Fe Butt
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I kind'a thought that at first too John, however after lookin' at the front view of it in that link, it looks as if the cylinder heads and the crank are sittin' pretty high up in order for maybe the bottom pan to be sittin' high enough off the ground. And so, now I'm thinkin' maybe Keith might be right afterall.
Gotta say it IS a pretty interesting concept, however I'm not all that crazy about the bodywork, or maybe the lack of it anyway.
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Monkey Butt
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ummmm, it doesn't exist to be top heavy or run well or any of that does it? Its a computer model.
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Loquacious
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A Subie without AWD? Heresy, I tell you. 
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I like the yellow Frankenrocket! 
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Somebody whipped that poor thing with an ugly stick! 
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Ya, I'll take a yellow one! 
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Fe Butt
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 Ahh, I remember this one, and I remember thinking how innovative this bike's double(as in, both wheels) single-sided suspension was too! Now, give me a couple months to design and build the PROPER bodywork around it(and the money to do that, of course), and I'd have me one fantastically COOL motorcycle there!!! (and yep...cooler and more innovative than ANY of these others motorcycles in this thread...INCLUDING that yellow one!!!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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