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Murray
20th April 2018, 19:34
I actually like it but it looks bloody uncomfortable

https://newatlas.com/yamaha-xsr900-custom-type-11-auto-fabrica/54297/
ellipsis
20th April 2018, 19:37
...where would you sit muzz, under the seat...looks more comfortable than anywhere else...
AllanB
20th April 2018, 20:46
Hmmmm I just don't know about that.
Laava
21st April 2018, 06:46
The biggest pissoff would be having to dip your head to see the gauge cluster.
FlangMasterJ
21st April 2018, 20:37
I think it's stunning.
husaberg
21st April 2018, 21:10
Looks like it was in Alien
https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/alien-franchise-every-alien-ranked-tiny-xenomorph-alien-covenant.jpg
A cafe is meant to look like a race bike what race bike look like that.
Banditbandit
27th April 2018, 14:32
Hmm .. no - I'll pass.
AllanB
27th April 2018, 18:11
I've read a lot of talk on the Web about this design - lots of accolades about its form. It's been bugging me as I was sure I've seen it before - yep - the original Target Design MV, a design which was a few years later morphed into the now iconic Suzuki Katana.
Hoonicorn
27th April 2018, 19:05
The Prototype 2 with the single round headlamp is nicer than the Prototype 3. Those sweeping pipes look stunning!




~ Until you scuff them on a speedbreaker.
AllanB
27th April 2018, 19:48
Those sweeping pipes look stunning!

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Yeah the left one looks close to the ground on one cornering pic.

I've always been a bit pipe fan. I seriously should buy and learn to use a tig welder and start playing. Maybe when I get made redundant from work later in the year (he says hopefully).

I was looking at the new Z900 today and thought the pipes looked OK until I realised half the mid-pipe was just a shield to look like a mid-pipe. It was all hidden in the cat behind the fake cover. Bloody stupid cat converters.
OddDuck
27th April 2018, 22:00
It's a head turner all right but yeah it does look like it was designed by H.R. Giger and ripped off an Aliens movie set.
98tls
28th April 2018, 20:12
Not to shabby to be fair more to the point the likely buyer being a born again blah blah would find it easy to locate even with his failing eyesight when parked amongst the sea of Harleys at said cafe.
husaberg
28th April 2018, 20:16
Other than the alien in Alien
it also reminds me of this 1990s bike only the p addicts version
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T.W.R
28th April 2018, 20:41
it also reminds me of this 1990s bike only the p addicts version


Rather than the Hulwick which realistically is a rip-off of the early Britten
That thing looks like they took a design que from a early 50s Gilera 500 racebike :msn-wink:

https://img3.stcrm.it/images/5522188/1000x1000/1-gilera-4-cil-500-gp-copia.jpg
husaberg
28th April 2018, 20:44
Rather than the Hulwick which realistically is a rip-off of the early Britten
That thing looks like they took a design que from a early 50s Gilera 500 racebike :msn-wink:



Which is a rip off of this Mammal
http://www.differencebetween.info/sites/default/files/images/4/dolphin.jpg (http://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiD64TxydzaAhXBlpQKHQEjC1gQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.differencebetween.info%2Fdiff erence-between-fish-and-dolphin&psig=AOvVaw2pmJZvD6O9lvW2AID6IJe9&ust=1524991414784846)