IN fact his main contribution as to go back to old screamer engines! To regain an advantage over his rivals. I recall Mick Doohan trying lots of things for Honda in 93 and 94, EFI, water injection, electronic shocks, yet all were sort of dropped as he was not very keen on developing, just riding and winning.
I remember Sir Alan, who rode just about every single type of front end, hammering on about the benefits of independent front suspension in getting rid of flex, removing the steering and suspension from being all in one.Īnd he often won races on bikes like this in BEARS like the Bimota Tesi, Saxon Triumph, and numerous Over bikes in Japan. Carbon frames, I even remember a lot of riders not liking carbon brakes initially, but Rainey just said "no they are lighter and better lets keep them"!! In my eyes racers have actually held back bike development, as they spend their entire career on forks and a rear shock, so they develop a feel for it and anything else feels bad. There was a lof of hype around anti dive in the mid 80's a lot of teams tried it.īut like most things in bike racing, the riders did not like it. I had an idea many years ago but it never got beyond a thought of a solo which by using hydraulics lowered itself when in a staight line to rise up again as it started to bank into a corner.Īpparently Denco was the engine he used, it was a red and green aero thing, then he built a another bike before the V1000.Īnd he built something before the Denco engines thing, no idea about that. How about the rear wings fitted by one innovator who I can't remember at the moment which altered the attack angle as the seat moved with acceleration and braking. The early Scitsu 125 with the aluminium plate frame steered away from the norm. The 'Unofordox' outfit powered by a Ford Cosworth engine fits into the brave but unfortunately doomed efforts. Many of the forward thinking ideas were scuppered due to lack of development as most good riders (who are capable of developing a bike) raced to win so inevitably many foundered on the rocks.
The idea of reducing the frontal area could not be classified as hopeless though nor could the Fiors which were brilliant in concept and pretty decent on practice. Lead engineer, Allan Reich designed the mainframe and swing-arm to be single-piece mono-form carbon fiber construction for added weight savings and performance.Īccording to Huge Moto, the goal was to make this bike as real as possible and not just “another bullshit concept bike.” Months away from moving into their new shop in Soma, the Huge Moto team is currently exploring fabrication options to make Mono real.The 500cc Monark Crescent certainly was ridden by Mick Grant in practice for one GP (might have been a Swedish round) but he could not get on with the riding position. From there every component was designed from the inside-out. A visual battle of overly aggro design details and crazy graphics that leaves us cold.Īt the heart of the build is one crucial component, the Honda’s 1000cc in-line 4-cylinder motor. Bike manufacturers burdened by the need to out-do themselves (as well as standout among evenly matched competitors) year after year appears to have driven much of the over-the-top aesthetics you see today. It seems that many of today’s modern sportbikes have gone a bit overboard with chaotic surfacing and superficial details. An approach borrowing from the past when race-bike components were raw and purposeful and bodywork flowed simply with sublime, aero-driven surfacing. This virtual bike build began with a ‘Clean and Mean’ design philosophy at the core. Custom motorcycle design and fabrication shop Huge Moto has unveiled its latest project: a concept motorcycle, dubbed Mono Racr, based around a 1,000cc Honda inline four-cylinder engine.
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