I remember that Motobecane approach well. What looks like a harddisk was a transparent disk whose light transmittance was variable over the angular rotation of the disk and over the distance from the light-sensitive cell to the center of the disk, comparable to the read/write head of a real hard disk.
The Honda technicians were quite inventive. It was the Honda board that was against the two-strokes and therefore blocked several promising developments.
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