In the future...

[Aero165]

We all know that back in the 1900's you'd be doing very well to get more than 5 BHP out of a motorcycle, just over 100 years later and your standard road bike is pumping around 180BHP and thats just the power ratio. Think about how much the old bike in the picture would weigh compaired to the R1(My favourite of all bikes:love:) then when you start thinking about the handling, aerodynamics and general better look of modern day sports bikes you have got to wonder... What will bikes be like in another 100 years... Will they even need wheels? Or will the goverment of decided to ban these "death machines"?

Tell me what in your own opinion what bikes will be like in 100 years time

Sorry to the people who I stole the pics from, I just couldn't be bothered searching the net:gob:

[Black Bandit]

We'll all be riding step-throughs with automatic gearboxes and ABS brakes :dodge:

The Gubmint will outlaw proper motorcycles. Like the look of this concept bike though, can't figure out how the suspension works:love:

[Steam]

Humans aren't going to last that long, we are in the end-days man, this tired world will be gone in 50 years max. It'll just take one splicing of Ebola or Aids with the Common Cold virus and we're all dead. Get your kicks while you can everyone.

However, IF we last that long;

:drool: Rubber will be a thing of the past and wheels (if they still exist) will grip the road with thousands of tiny hairs like fly legs, so the only limit to traction will be how strong the actual road surface is.

:drool: Wheels will be able to deform instantly to ride over any obstacle. You could drive at a kerb at 100mph and not feel a bump.

:drool: Bikes will have internal gyros, so they can stand up by themselves.

:drool: The power source will be tiny, so no petrol tanks. I'm picking the power generator will be a Hawking-Schwartzchild Kernel, with Quantum-buffered plasma over-run conduits to dump excess event-horizon energy.

:drool: Bike will weigh maybe 20 kilos or less? There's no need for an engine, instead the power feeds directly into the wheels like an inductive drive, so immediately the bike is lightened by a hundred kilos. The frame can be made of extremely light materials, no need for this carbon-fibre primitiveness, let's go straight to hyperfiber.

:drool: Inertial dampeners will stick you to the bike, but they can be turned on or off to capture the feeling of riding in the ancient 20th century.

:drool: In the unlikely event that you fall off, safety clothing will be a thing of the past, replaced by a gravity-force-projector beam on the bike that will beam out and grab you, reduce your fall speed, turn you the right way up, and put you gently on your feet, even if the bike is on its side 50m away, which is of course impossible because of the internal gyros and sticky wheels.

:drool: Wind and rain will be deflected by an electrostatic field, invisible except for a slight tingling.

:drool: Internal computers and an integrated highway system will mean that the bike can ride itself at almost supersonic speeds, the only limit being imposed so people living near highways don't suffer from sonic booms.

That's all I thought of right now. Oh, and Sprotsbike riders will turn all the safety gadgets off and crash often.
There will still be lots of antique motorcycles powered by infernal combustion engines, but as oil will have run out, the antique enthusiasts will have to run them on home-brewed ethanol.

[Goblin]

....and general better look of modern day sports bikes you have got to wonder... What will bikes be like in another 100 years... Will they even need wheels? Or will the goverment of decided to ban these "death machines"?

Tell me what in your own opinion what bikes will be like in 100 years time

Well that's a matter of perception. I love seeing really old bikes on the road. If I saw a bunch of sportsbikes parked up, and an old bike nearby I'd go marvel at the fact the old girl is still on the road! Sports bike are like arseholes. Old bikes are cool!

I hope my grandchildren an great grandies will be flying around with alternative powered flying machines.

[MidnightMike]

Looks like steam had a moment to think about this. :rofl:

[Aero165]

Humans aren't going to last that long, we are in the end-days man, this tired world will be gone in 50 years max. It'll just take one splicing of Ebola or Aids with the Common Cold virus and we're all dead. Get your kicks while you can everyone.

However, IF we last that long;

:drool: Rubber will be a thing of the past and wheels (if they still exist) will grip the road with thousands of tiny hairs like fly legs, so the only limit to traction will be how strong the actual road surface is.

:drool: Wheels will be able to deform instantly to ride over any obstacle. You could drive at a kerb at 100mph and not feel a bump.

:drool: Bikes will have internal gyros, so they can stand up by themselves.

:drool: The power source will be tiny, so no petrol tanks. I'm picking the power generator will be a Hawking-Schwartzchild Kernel, with Quantum-buffered plasma over-run conduits to dump excess event-horizon energy.

:drool: Bike will weigh maybe 20 kilos or less? There's no need for an engine, instead the power feeds directly into the wheels like an inductive drive, so immediately the bike is lightened by a hundred kilos. The frame can be made of extremely light materials, no need for this carbon-fibre primitiveness, let's go straight to hyperfiber.

:drool: Inertial dampeners will stick you to the bike, but they can be turned on or off to capture the feeling of riding in the ancient 20th century.

:drool: In the unlikely event that you fall off, safety clothing will be a thing of the past, replaced by a gravity-force-projector beam on the bike that will beam out and grab you, reduce your fall speed, turn you the right way up, and put you gently on your feet, even if the bike is on its side 50m away, which is of course impossible because of the internal gyros and sticky wheels.

:drool: Wind and rain will be deflected by an electrostatic field, invisible except for a slight tingling.

:drool: Internal computers and an integrated highway system will mean that the bike can ride itself at almost supersonic speeds, the only limit being imposed so people living near highways don't suffer from sonic booms.

That's all I thought of right now. Oh, and Sprotsbike riders will turn all the safety gadgets off and crash often.
There will still be lots of antique motorcycles powered by infernal combustion engines, but as oil will have run out, the antique enthusiasts will have to run them on home-brewed ethanol.

I like the way this guy thinks

[Clivoris]

:drool: Rubber will be a thing of the past and wheels (if they still exist) will grip the road with thousands of tiny hairs like fly legs, so the only limit to traction will be how strong the actual road surface is.

:drool: Wheels will be able to deform instantly to ride over any obstacle. You could drive at a kerb at 100mph and not feel a bump.

:drool: Bikes will have internal gyros, so they can stand up by themselves.

:drool: The power source will be tiny, so no petrol tanks. I'm picking the power generator will be a Hawking-Schwartzchild Kernel, with Quantum-buffered plasma over-run conduits to dump excess event-horizon energy.

:drool: Bike will weigh maybe 20 kilos or less? There's no need for an engine, instead the power feeds directly into the wheels like an inductive drive, so immediately the bike is lightened by a hundred kilos. The frame can be made of extremely light materials, no need for this carbon-fibre primitiveness, let's go straight to hyperfiber.

:drool: Inertial dampeners will stick you to the bike, but they can be turned on or off to capture the feeling of riding in the ancient 20th century.

:drool: In the unlikely event that you fall off, safety clothing will be a thing of the past, replaced by a gravity-force-projector beam on the bike that will beam out and grab you, reduce your fall speed, turn you the right way up, and put you gently on your feet, even if the bike is on its side 50m away, which is of course impossible because of the internal gyros and sticky wheels.

:drool: Wind and rain will be deflected by an electrostatic field, invisible except for a slight tingling.

:drool: Internal computers and an integrated highway system will mean that the bike can ride itself at almost supersonic speeds, the only limit being imposed so people living near highways don't suffer from sonic booms.

That's all I thought of right now. Oh, and Sprotsbike riders will turn all the safety gadgets off and crash often.
There will still be lots of antique motorcycles powered by infernal combustion engines, but as oil will have run out, the antique enthusiasts will have to run them on home-brewed ethanol.

:laugh: Great to see that all that time spent watching Star Trek wasn't a waste.

[Bonez]

There will still be lots of antique motorcycles powered by infernal combustion engines, but as oil will have run out, the antique enthusiasts will have to run them on home-brewed ethanol.Don't kid ya self. We'll all be back on C50s. Powered by mutant hamsters.

[nudemetalz]

Looks like steam had a moment to think about this. :rofl:

He might have had something to do with "iRobot" ;) (cool movie BTW)

[Pixie]

:drool: The power source will be tiny, so no petrol tanks. I'm picking the power generator will be a Hawking-Schwartzchild Kernel, with Quantum-buffered plasma over-run conduits to dump excess event-horizon energy.

:drool: Bike will weigh maybe 20 kilos or less? There's no need for an engine, instead the power feeds directly into the wheels like an inductive drive, so immediately the bike is lightened by a hundred kilos. The frame can be made of extremely light materials, no need for this carbon-fibre primitiveness, let's go straight to hyperfiber.


The latter point conflicts with the former.More like 20 solar masses

[Pixie]

He might have had something to do with "iRobot" ;) (cool movie BTW)

Pity the only resemblance to the bike was the title

[Steam]

The latter point conflicts with the former.More like 20 solar masses

No, ya see, the black holes are tiny primordial ones left over from the big bang. They weigh only a kilogram or so, more like a naked singularity than a black hole really. But spinning close to the speed of light, to store energy.

The mining fleet out in the Oort Cloud captures them with thousand kilometer wide electromagnetic nets, because of course they are charged.

Eew, I hated iRobot. "Now we will indicate the robots are BAD by making them glow an evil red". Yeah, real subtle.
Don't get me started!

[Timber020]

I think bikes will be adaptable, you will be able to shift the wheelbase, rake, bar and seat positioning depending on how you wish to ride. Cruise it on the long straights, sportsbike in the corners, motard through traffic.

[skidMark]

I think bikes will be adaptable, you will be able to shift the wheelbase, rake, bar and seat positioning depending on how you wish to ride. Cruise it on the long straights, sportsbike in the corners, motard through traffic.


so your talking about a power commander...for bike shape....customizable maps ? lol

[James Deuce]

There's no point thinking about what people will ride/drive 100 years from now because the days of personally owned transport are coming to a close.

Will live in interconnected villages 30kms apart (old people can't walk that far in a day so they'll die, alone and cold, of exposure over night - population control that is) and mag-lev trains will transport people from one village to the next.

[NighthawkNZ]

:drool: Rubber will be a thing of the past and wheels (if they still exist) will grip the road with thousands of tiny hairs like fly legs, so the only limit to traction will be how strong the actual road surface is.

there won't be wheeles, so no need for rubber, nor roads as we know them...




:drool: Wheels will be able to deform instantly to ride over any obstacle. You could drive at a kerb at 100mph and not feel a bump.
as above


:drool: Bikes will have internal gyros, so they can stand up by themselves. will be something very similar


:drool: The power source will be tiny, so no petrol tanks. I'm picking the power generator will be a Hawking-Schwartzchild Kernel, with Quantum-buffered plasma over-run conduits to dump excess event-horizon energy. This is pretty close, but the are call flux conduits and the sound of the dumping event-horizon energy is well :drool: you think the big V-Twins sound with that low rumble sounds nice...

The dumping of this energy causes a download draft and the bike actually floats on plasma field caused be the residue of the event exhaust, so as above no wheels or road required as we know it. The nossle outlets are then angled back to push forward, and then forward to break (similar to the harrier jet). The other thing there is no speed as explained below and once the reaction has started, there is no power limit, and it is very easy to control and stop the reaction when needed. The Quantum Flux Chamber or QFC is is actually quiet a simple device. Its a wounder I didn't think of it years ago.



:drool: Bike will weigh maybe 20 kilos or less? There's no need for an engine, instead the power feeds directly into the wheels like an inductive drive, so immediately the bike is lightened by a hundred kilos. The frame can be made of extremely light materials, no need for this carbon-fibre primitiveness, let's go straight to hyperfiber.

The power cell is required only to start the reaction in the QFC to the flux conduits exhausts... and found that the hyperfibre isn't strong enough once you start aproching mach 10... so we started to develop on a quantum level a new fibre called possi-triuillium fibre.


:drool: Inertial dampeners will stick you to the bike, but they can be turned on or off to capture the feeling of riding in the ancient 20th century. this is true but it is very difficult to handle with out these dampeners on line although it is possible at slower speeds as the dampners also work as stablisers. The other effect these dampeners give are to counter act the ential jolt from starting the internal chain reaction called Flux-Event.



:drool: In the unlikely event that you fall off, safety clothing will be a thing of the past, replaced by a gravity-force-projector beam on the bike that will beam out and grab you, reduce your fall speed, turn you the right way up, and put you gently on your feet, even if the bike is on its side 50m away, which is of course impossible because of the internal gyros and sticky wheels.
This has only ever happened when the internal dampners were switched off and even with the sheild on... but what a rush... we did find that the firing mechinism for the protector beam can be damaged in the crash, so we are working putting this in the riding pressure suit, and helmet, which we bellieve to be the correct move.



:drool: Wind and rain will be deflected by an electrostatic field, invisible except for a slight tingling. as well as bugs, stones, no more bird strikes or animal strikes...



:drool: Internal computers and an integrated highway system will mean that the bike can ride itself at almost supersonic speeds, the only limit being imposed so people living near highways don't suffer from sonic booms.

this is true... though letting the internal computer ride the bike, you have to have the sheild up as this causes a slipstream a effect where anything inside the sheild is in their own reality, we did find while at sub light speeds the computers were fast enough, but anything faster than light that the computers were too slow... but this is now getting in to warp theory and a total new rush...

[Finn]

It bet you'll still be able to buy a GN250.

[James Deuce]

It bet you'll still be able to buy a GN250.

Yeah, but it will be made by cheap labour in that 3rd world country; New Zealand.

[Krusti]

We will be buying our classic old shitters from Goblin, she will be rich..........:lol:

[Goblin]

We will be buying our classic old shitters from Goblin, she will be rich..........:lol:What do ya mean "will be" rich? I'm already rich....might not have pots of dough but I have a great life.:eek:

[Dave-]

I SAY THE SECOND COMMING OF THE LORD JEEEEESUS WILL COME AND HE WILL DESTROY THE EARTH FOR ITS SINNING AND THOSE WHO REPENT WILL BE TAKEN TO HEAVEN!

motorcyclists will all be damned to hell for our sinful ways.

[Krusti]

Noooooooooooo... Heaven will only have motorcycles for those who can really ride, therefore I will be the only one there.:innocent:

[janno]

I SAY THE SECOND COMMING OF THE LORD JEEEEESUS WILL COME AND HE WILL DESTROY THE EARTH FOR ITS SINNING AND THOSE WHO REPENT WILL BE TAKEN TO HEAVEN!

motorcyclists will all be damned to hell for our sinful ways.

Luckily due to a quantum shift, the future hell consists of a car free New Zealand, with roads in perfect condition and only one day of rainy weather a week (Tuesdays.)

There is a queue to get in to hell . . . :scooter:

[Pancakes]

Wouldn't mind these (http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Features/articleId=103183) integrated into bike suspension.

[Usarka]

There's no point thinking about what people will ride/drive 100 years from now because the days of personally owned transport are coming to a close.

Will live in interconnected villages 30kms apart (old people can't walk that far in a day so they'll die, alone and cold, of exposure over night - population control that is) and mag-lev trains will transport people from one village to the next.

There's going to have to be a serious shift in this countries ability to implement infrastructure..... It's taken 30 years for the countries biggest city to get new fangled electric trains.

eh what? they're still diesel?

personal transport is safe. bikes will be so cotton-wool wrapped that they wont get past stationary

[Tank]

Sadly I think that personal cars, bikes etc etc are being pushed out and in 100 years it may be downright shameful to own one.

People and attitudes change dramatically. Not that long ago calling someone a nigger was "acceptable", now it is considered discusting.

Being gay used to be a terrible thing, bashings, family would disown you, and you sure as hell couldnt be 'out and proud' - today its a normal part of soceity.

(note Im neither gay or rasist) - the above are just examples of how core values have changed on a mass scale.

So with all the tree huggers telling 'the man' that bikes, cars, and the internal combusion engine are evil, I think that they are going to slowly go the way of the moa.

Sad - thats why I defend my right to ride and drive and give the tree huggers shit everytime I get an opportunity. I know that they will win one day, but I want to get as many kicks as I can whilst there is time.

[hospitalfood]

I want a space bike that travels at 5000 times the speed of light.
I want to claim other planets as mine.
I want to roam the universe.

I want to be a space cowboy.

[Ocean1]

Will live in interconnected villages 30kms apart (old people can't walk that far in a day so they'll die, alone and cold, of exposure over night - population control that is) and mag-lev trains will transport people from one village to the next.

Not a chance, such infrastructure is not do-able in this political environment.


There's going to have to be a serious shift in this countries ability to implement infrastructure..... It's taken 30 years for the countries biggest city to get new fangled electric trains.

eh what? they're still diesel?

They're not new, they're ex Perth shit with a paint job.

[NighthawkNZ]

I want a space bike that travels at 5000 times the speed of light.
I want to claim other planets as mine.
I want to roam the universe.

I want to be a space cowboy.

Im working on it Im workin on it ;)

My main problem is compacting the rebreathers, so have enough oxygen without the need to replenish the tanks. At present the pressure suit gives you 24hrs... which is enough to blat around the solar system but any think longer then you need larger tanks. (which adds weight and size and and and...) I'm thinking of a some touring drop tanks which can be either towed by a power cupling or slung underneth... however if you are in space for more the 24hrs you will need sleep and food etc... soooo... it may be like towing a small caravan im just not sure on the design yet... or even if to go down this track or not...

The sheilds in the vacuum of space work great and also protect against solar radiation, and micro dust and meteors... just dodge the larger ones oh and avoid black holes, as it can interfere with everything...

As for speed the QFC produces unlimited power, however this to be transfered to the forward movement, using the taceon theory, if you hyper the taceons (which is already faster than light) then this produces movement in a vacuum. It controlling this movement that becomes difficult how to stear the vehicle with this movement.

[lanci]

One bike best sums up the future of bikes..............Suzuki Katana (Proper pop-up head-light model).

[2fst4u]

Humans aren't going to last that long, we are in the end-days man, this tired world will be gone in 50 years max. It'll just take one splicing of Ebola or Aids with the Common Cold virus and we're all dead. Get your kicks while you can everyone.

However, IF we last that long;

:drool: Rubber will be a thing of the past and wheels (if they still exist) will grip the road with thousands of tiny hairs like fly legs, so the only limit to traction will be how strong the actual road surface is.

:drool: Wheels will be able to deform instantly to ride over any obstacle. You could drive at a kerb at 100mph and not feel a bump.

:drool: Bikes will have internal gyros, so they can stand up by themselves.

:drool: The power source will be tiny, so no petrol tanks. I'm picking the power generator will be a Hawking-Schwartzchild Kernel, with Quantum-buffered plasma over-run conduits to dump excess event-horizon energy.

:drool: Bike will weigh maybe 20 kilos or less? There's no need for an engine, instead the power feeds directly into the wheels like an inductive drive, so immediately the bike is lightened by a hundred kilos. The frame can be made of extremely light materials, no need for this carbon-fibre primitiveness, let's go straight to hyperfiber.

:drool: Inertial dampeners will stick you to the bike, but they can be turned on or off to capture the feeling of riding in the ancient 20th century.

:drool: In the unlikely event that you fall off, safety clothing will be a thing of the past, replaced by a gravity-force-projector beam on the bike that will beam out and grab you, reduce your fall speed, turn you the right way up, and put you gently on your feet, even if the bike is on its side 50m away, which is of course impossible because of the internal gyros and sticky wheels.

:drool: Wind and rain will be deflected by an electrostatic field, invisible except for a slight tingling.

:drool: Internal computers and an integrated highway system will mean that the bike can ride itself at almost supersonic speeds, the only limit being imposed so people living near highways don't suffer from sonic booms.

That's all I thought of right now. Oh, and Sprotsbike riders will turn all the safety gadgets off and crash often.
There will still be lots of antique motorcycles powered by infernal combustion engines, but as oil will have run out, the antique enthusiasts will have to run them on home-brewed ethanol.

bikes do have gyros. they're called rear wheels

[2fst4u]

edit: kb said the post was too long so i did a new one. long story short, somthing screwed up

[Renegade]

yay im not the only one who watchs startrek and dreams