Mountainbike/Motorbike

[GSVR]

Anyone else see the Final Holmes Show tonight?

Had the guy in Christchurch developing a Titanium framed motorbike with mountainbike wheels etc.

Weighs around 45kg and by the looks had pretty good performance.

[White trash]

Yeah, they came 'round work with the prototype about twelve months ago. We're all standing there going "Oooooh" and "Ahhhhhh" till he goes "Twennygran" and we go *walks away*

[GSVR]

I remember reading your thread.

Someone posted some place overseas already making them but they where like only 15 hp for the most powerful model or something.

20 grand is way too much. He should make them out of Ally that would bring the price down.

[White trash]

The price will be lower than that, that was what they'd have to sell them for at that stage, given the work going into the bike. I think they're already down to around 14k? Something like that.

You can easily spend $10k on a good mountain bike and their machine is a shitload more fun than anything with pedals.

[chris]

only 15 hp

Which would give around 300bhp per ton, a lot basically.

[froggyfrenchman]

The price will be lower than that, that was what they'd have to sell them for at that stage, given the work going into the bike. I think they're already down to around 14k? Something like that.

You can easily spend $10k on a good mountain bike and their machine is a shitload more fun than anything with pedals.

Why would anyone spend 10k on a bicycle????? You can buy a hell of a lot of proformance for 10k! why get something where your legs provide the hp?

[GSVR]

Which would give around 300bhp per ton, a lot basically.

Not when you take into account the riders weight as well.

[Badcat]

Anyone else see the Final Holmes Show tonight?

Had the guy in Christchurch developing a Titanium framed motorbike with mountainbike wheels etc.

Weighs around 45kg and by the looks had pretty good performance.

they are based in chch and the bikes are pretty sweet.
australian dirt bike review one in the issue before the current one.
they use a crf50 motor - and a bored out Kitao version at about 120 cc
they have a website:
http://www.fxbikes.com/

k

[chris]

Not when you take into account the riders weight as well.

You never do when quoting bhp/tonne figures. Take into account an average build person of around 75kg and you still get an impressive power to weight figure. An SS Commodore probably doesn't have a much better power to weight figure than the FX thingy and its rider.
If I remember rightly, it has a very small fuel capacity, which will limit is practicality.