Is this future better Jim? [Archive]

Big Dave

10th July 2006, 22:24

Still a work in progress - but this might be more fun than a hybrid.

Indiana_Jones

10th July 2006, 22:25

looks like F-16 crossed with a bike lol

-Indy

Titanium

10th July 2006, 22:27

Maybe it is a Y3K...........:scooter:

Indiana_Jones

10th July 2006, 22:29

Move over Maverick :D

-Indy

Madness

10th July 2006, 22:31

Wicked!!!

The Ram-Air cowl looks slightly ZX12-R ish.

XTC

10th July 2006, 22:33

Not much air to "ram" in a vacuum though is there?

inlinefour

10th July 2006, 22:38

Beam me up Scotty! :rockon:

T.W.R

10th July 2006, 22:39

TRON on broadband huh :wait:

Big Dave

10th July 2006, 22:42

Not much air to "ram" in a vacuum though is there?

Ionosphere racers collect particles of matter in the upper atmosphere and use it them as fuel for the nuclear implosions that power the ion drive and anti gravity mechanism - don't you know anything!

Big Dave

10th July 2006, 22:43

TRON on broadband huh :wait:

2/10 - try harder.

Indiana_Jones

10th July 2006, 22:45

GREAT BALLS OF FIRE!

-Indy

XTC

10th July 2006, 22:45

don't you know anything!

You've met me and you still have to ask that?

T.W.R

10th July 2006, 22:50

2/10 - try harder.

Ha what eva :bleh: by the time something like that comes to be I'll be long gone pushin up daisys :bye:

Though it's a better idea than the hideous Valkrie based tanks they dreamed up for Judge Dred

Motu

10th July 2006, 22:50

Looks like a Telus.

Big Dave

10th July 2006, 22:50

You've met me and you still have to ask that?

I think you know how to ride pretty good.

Ixion

10th July 2006, 22:52

Is that one of those sucky hover things?

Big Dave

10th July 2006, 22:52

Looks like a Telus.

OK - I'll bite - What's a Telus, Mr Motu?

Ixion

10th July 2006, 22:55

It's his lousy spelling has confused you. He meant Tellus of course. It's a sucky hover thing.

Motu

10th July 2006, 22:59

One day,when I grow up - we'll all be riding those sucky hover things.I think Tellus are Nilfisk now.....maybe they'll change the name back for the sucky hover bike?

Big Dave

10th July 2006, 23:01

One day,when I grow up - we'll all be riding those sucky hover things.I think Tellus are Nilfisk now.....maybe they'll change the name back for the sucky hover bike?

You kiwi talk funny language - don't know it.

James Deuce

11th July 2006, 06:44

Now that's more like it!

sAsLEX

11th July 2006, 08:11

Not much air to "ram" in a vacuum though is there?

SCRAM jets work at extermely high altitudes, and scavenege fuel out of thin air, though good luck trying to hold on at the speeds they operate at!

sels1

11th July 2006, 08:13

"...its a bike , Jim, but not as we know it..."

Swoop

11th July 2006, 08:23

Very impressive Dave!

What is the "cannister" thingy being jettisoned???

Kickaha

11th July 2006, 08:34

no real corners in space though is there?

how are all the squids going to get their knees down?

R6_kid

11th July 2006, 12:28

knee down? I think getting down at all will be a bitch, can you imagine the re-entry temps!

Wolf

11th July 2006, 15:24

Does it come in black?

Where do I order mine?

Wolf

11th July 2006, 15:26

It's his lousy spelling has confused you. He meant Tellus of course. It's a sucky hover thing.
Don't you mean a "sucky hoover thing" :nya:

Skyryder

11th July 2006, 17:43

Anyone want a day trip to the moon. At 12,000Kph it's a 1.33 day trip. So it's weekend trip if anyones interested.

Mars is 9.03 months but that's one for when I retire. For you young'uns at 12,000kph it's 386000 years to our closest star (Proxima Centauri) so you had better take a female pillion if you want your decendents to arrive. If you want to get to the centre of our galaxy (Milky Way) it's 2.69 billion years so you had better shift up into top gear. At 12,000 kps it's 749000 years.

Skyryder

James Deuce

11th July 2006, 18:01

I'm in. It all sounds like a grand adventure.

Ixion

11th July 2006, 19:31

Anyone want a day trip to the moon. At 12,000Kph it's a 1.33 day trip. So it's weekend trip if anyones interested.

Mars is 9.03 months but that's one for when I retire. For you young'uns at 12,000kph it's 386000 years to our closest star (Proxima Centauri) so you had better take a female pillion if you want your decendents to arrive. If you want to get to the centre of our galaxy (Milky Way) it's 2.69 billion years so you had better shift up into top gear. At 12,000 kps it's 749000 years.

Skyryder

Well, yes, if you going to get all technical about the speed of light and such. But I assume that a sucky hover thing is going to have a flux capacitor drive so that's THAT sorted.

avgas

11th July 2006, 19:45

Shoei......told you arai are crap:nya:

Big Dave

11th July 2006, 22:57

Anyone want a day trip to the moon. At 12,000Kph it's a 1.33 day trip. So it's weekend trip if anyones interested.

Mars is 9.03 months but that's one for when I retire. For you young'uns at 12,000kph it's 386000 years to our closest star (Proxima Centauri) so you had better take a female pillion if you want your decendents to arrive. If you want to get to the centre of our galaxy (Milky Way) it's 2.69 billion years so you had better shift up into top gear. At 12,000 kps it's 749000 years.

Skyryder

Better put the top box on too.

Big Dave

11th July 2006, 23:04

It was originally an advert that we ran a few years ago now - but as usual I had to work to time constraints and never really finished the piece - this week I'm reasonably quiet and finishing it off - still needs some detail work - then I might do some posters.

I was always fascinated by 80's sci fi novel covers - that was the inspiration.

Might even write some some sci fi to complement the pic one day - Superbikes meets the stars in 2400ad - type thing.