nigelphoto
New Member
Lets start a heated debate - I hereby propose the Motion to This House that modern motorcycle designers have lost the plot. Part of the pleasure in owning a bike is that not only should it go like hell, hold the road like a limpet, be extremely cheap to run and utterly reliable, but above all it should look gorgeous. What do I mean? Well, take the latest offering from Europe's largest bike manufacturer
It might well be the fastest thing of all very-fast-things but to my mind it looks like a concoction of girders with pipes and bits flung on anywhere and a HUGE void between the rear wheel and the pillion, which, incidentally, not even a Gibraltar Ape could cling to with any satisfaction. And the headlight on a drop down panel modelled on the front end of a Panzar half-track. This bike is just plain UGLY.
Now have a ganders at this - beautiful proportions, no ugly voids, headlight where it should be, frame serves the purpose of holding the bits together and doesn't look like the Forth Bridge and proper chromed exhausts not drainpipes everywhere. Beautiful
It might well be the fastest thing of all very-fast-things but to my mind it looks like a concoction of girders with pipes and bits flung on anywhere and a HUGE void between the rear wheel and the pillion, which, incidentally, not even a Gibraltar Ape could cling to with any satisfaction. And the headlight on a drop down panel modelled on the front end of a Panzar half-track. This bike is just plain UGLY.
Now have a ganders at this - beautiful proportions, no ugly voids, headlight where it should be, frame serves the purpose of holding the bits together and doesn't look like the Forth Bridge and proper chromed exhausts not drainpipes everywhere. Beautiful