Tron Light Bike

[hh5]

Practical or impractical on the streets?

 

Made with a steel frame and a fiberglass body, the bike is 8 1/2 feet long, with a width of 23 1/4 inches and a height of 28 1/2 inches, and built to order.

 

Electroluminescent strips built into the tire cowlings, wheel rims, and body illuminate the cycle. It is powered by a fuel-injected Suzuki 996cc, 4-stroke engine. Riders lay at a near-horizontal position astride the padded leather seat, with feet on foot pegs that control its 6-speed constant mesh manual transmission and hands on the handlebars for throttle and braking. The hubless wheels are former truck tires built up then custom-shaped to fit onto one of two counter-rotating rims spinning within each other, providing the broad-tired authenticity of the computer cycles from the movie. A chain-driven friction drum manages acceleration and braking from the handlebars. It uses a 3 1/2-gallon main fuel tank and 1 1/4-gallon reserve tank.

 

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'It can go up to 120 miles per hour but we haven't taken it up to that speed yet. The hardest part of the build was trying to go from the CGI of the movie to a real-life situation. We pretty much started out just seeing if we could make.'

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2029641/Tron-Legacy-inspired-Lightcycle-superbike-hit-120mph-costs-33k.html#ixzz2q8GkKPfd 

 

Edited January 11, 2014 by hh5

[Thorn Wilde]

That's pretty cool looking, but that driving position looks uncomfortable and potentially unsafe.

[Kitt]

My thoughts exactly Thorn! I can't even see being comfortable on a cafe bike, let alone this one. Give me a nice touring bike with his and hers tiered seats. ( The industries name not mine - I am just as happy if you want to call em his and his!)

[Sasha Distan]

that looks deeply uncomfortable to ride on. Give me a Harley any day

[Bill W]

Cool looking, but in a head on accident I doubt the driver would stand much of a chance of surviving. 

[Kitt]

Head on no bike driver has too much of a chance.

[hh5]

I bet any test driver be scared to riding that thing at 120mph? only to be launch like a missile upon collision

since its path of a death match in the movie who says it has to be safe

[Thorn Wilde]

The Stig could do it.

[Sasha Distan]

The Stig could do it.

 

Well that raises a whole ambiguity of whether or not The Stig likes bikes. There was no Vietnamese Stig if you remember.