Another eco vehicle discussion, but with a twist.

The leaner is interesting.

Contrary to popular belief loud pipes just piss off the neighbors.

loud pipes also make aware the other drivers on the road

a friend of mine use to say 'loud pipes save lives'

Only if the drivers are behind you!

Loud pipes decrease the acceptability of motorcycles by the general public & lead to more & more restrictive laws. Your freedom ends where my ears begin

Bull! I have had my loud pipes cause people who were not paying attention to snap their head back in my direction before they were about to cut me off (hence they were in front of me and still heard my pipes). I idle the bike in when coming home late and nobody complains.

BSA (if my ailing memory serves) tried atriculated trike idea in the late '60s or early '70s didn't they.

Didn't catch on then and I have my doubts about it doing so now. Personally I can't quite see the logic behind a trike. It takes up the same space on the road as a 4-wheeled vehicle. Having said that I see that mass might be spared.

The Dutch effort has also got it wrong, imho, by having the single wheel at the front (unless impact from behind is the major issue, which might be the case if it goes drearily slowly!)

It does in fact not go slowly and is heaps of fun. I have not driven it but seen video's of it and heard and read reports. The idea is to give you the outlook of the bike experience, hence the single wheel up front, but the stability of a car, combined with the incredible lean angle it can have. It actually has a warning led scale and it ends with a buzzer tot ell you your are having fun

Personally I like trikes but for other reasons than I like the bikes. Yes you have a similar width, although not necessarily so, but you are still out in the wind. If my legs gave up I would not have any problem with triking it the rest of my riding days.

I have no doubt powerfull trikes are fun and give some of the motorcycle feel, but from a fun perspective I'll take the motorcycle any time. Chaqu'un à son goût.

I was musing over such an architecture more from the ecological standpoint, as a mainstream commuter vehicle say.

I saw the trike on an episode of future car. Looked like a blast. It might bring a few more to the motorcycle ranks. An advantage that I can think of would be stability on wet pavement. The canopy would be nice in cooler weather too. As for the loud pipes. Yes, you can get attention but I know from experience that it does not always work. I have a rebuilt foot to prove it. T-boned by a pick up coming from a stop sign. I had right of way. Truck won. I was on a sportster with drag pipes and no baffles. How friggin loud do they have to be? By the way, his windows were down.

The Mechanic

im familiar with some of those bikes.familiar might be too much to say but a couple were here for the auto expo in delhi and others i checked online.i might be wrong but i dont think they'r 'eco-friendly' or alt-fuel bikes at all.just crazy concepts.

they can get the research and funds only because thy tryout new material and steering concepts.

feel free to shoot me down if they actually turn out to be alt-fuel tho im pretty sure thats not the point to any of these bikes.i guess the big-shot auto people have to do their share for the environment so they couple their other research with these lame eco fuel crap.