Bizarre Honda V4 concept bike has us scratching our heads

If I am not completely mistaken that bike is no more than a representation of the Honda logo? A sculpture....

flooted

- October 10, 2008 @ 04:10 am PDT

Honda wanted to bring something to the party but was out of ideas?

marc brown

- October 10, 2008 @ 06:10 am PDT

It could work if the wheels are encased in the shiny cover. There would need of course to be a small opening in the wheel cover at the point where the wheels touch the ground. This would basically make the wheel covers very thorough fenders. Instead of connecting the wheels at the point of the hub, having the forks connect to the rim as they show may add stability (but I don't know). Ultimately I do agree that this design is the product of the power of dreams. The problem is that it was not Honda's dream; it was the dream of the animators of the 1982 Disney movie "Tron." Take a look: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a29_1196826131

pmodiano

- October 10, 2008 @ 11:10 am PDT

Maybe they are not running it on land. Do not need any of that if the drive system is new and for water sports.

crzymn1

- October 10, 2008 @ 05:10 pm PDT

Honda says they're serving us Filet Mignon, while they try to fool us with Boloney!! Looks like smoke and mirrors to me. While Yamaha puts out the V-4 Vmax, all Honda has is a bunch of recycled VTX's. Sport bikes don't need fancier looking plastic. Bring on something exciting like it was with the Valkyrie, CBX, Magna instead of Harley look-a-likes!

lennydalizard

- October 10, 2008 @ 10:10 pm PDT

could it be an new VTOL concept? it look `like it to me

lebrun

- October 11, 2008 @ 05:10 am PDT

I agree with pmodiano with regard to the wheels being fully enclosed, but the openings should be larger to allow full use of the width of the tyre for cornering. The drive and braking is easily explained, along with the hubless system by checking out http://www.osmoswheel.com/index.asp?lang=en. I surmise that front suspension is taken care of by a reverse upward slide against the front end of the frame, which might provide adequate anti-dive under braking, rear suspension via swinging arm with hidden monoshock & linkage.

As a work of art, or a custom bike, or merely an exercise in engineering, I can certainly appreciate it. As a concept of the future however, it falls flat on it's face as it's using currently available technology invented by other people.

But that's just my opinion...

Moonbeam

- October 13, 2008 @ 02:10 pm PDT

Hamster powered. Gotta be.

jwb

- October 14, 2008 @ 10:10 am PDT

People please! Obviously those tooth like hub-less rims aren't for chewing pavement. They spin counter rotationally generating fields of magnetic disruptive to open temporary wormhole disruptions in the very fabric of the universe. For all you luddites out there, this is quite simply a teleportation device, and I guarantee honda will taking the moto gp title with this one. All only thing left to figure out is how to get the 1.21 gigawatts into the flux capacitor - should have hired Marty McFly and Doc Brown as consultants - poor strategy.

Axiom

- February 11, 2009 @ 02:02 pm PST