For that money you can take a friend.
Posted on 10/16/2012 1:55:01 PM PDT by martin_fierro
The untippable motorcycle with 'car-like controls' CLARKE BOWLING Thursday, August 30, 2012
The all-electric, gyroscope-enhanced C-1 from Lit Motors brings the familiar controls of the automobile to the mobility of a motorcycle, all with safety and efficiency in mind.
The San Francisco-based startup hopes to get the vehicle into production by 2014, reports the Detroit News. The electric vehicle will boast a 200 miles per charge driving range, a top speed of 120 mph, and the ability to withstand the impact of a large SUV without tipping over.
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Designer probably commutes to work on a Segway, with a seat.
Gas version $80,000 and electric version is $100,000. Not exactly commuter friendly pricing. But it does look like one heck of a lot of fun to drive!
I’d love to be able to redo an Ural with a beemer oilhead engine mated to the ural trans and a Dnepr drivetrain.
best of 3 worlds..
For that money you can take a friend.
I was thinking about a pair of machine guns mounted in the front.
I like it.
Clicked on this thread ready not to, but I do.
A guy can dream can't he?
Ahh, but that is gleaming emerald of Russian mind. Russian ingenuity invent “reverse engineering” before anyone else. Russian engineering so good, doesn’t matter forward, reverse, sideways.
See totally invented in Russia first Tupolev TU-4.
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