Building a streamlined motorcycle out of the front fuselage part of a popular two seater glider is one thing, and it has taken long enough. Has he ever really made it run at speeds even close to the claimed? I see no proof.
Now he claims even more performance and throws in some rough numbers, but no proof. The web site does not even have the text set accurately and all it reveals is images that look like created with some freeware 3D animation package.
When he claims that it is "Notary certified the Acabion is the first succeeding system to cars, worldwide", what does that prove, except a notary took money and wrote the statement down? I am not convinced. Not at all.
MattII
Rather pie-in-the-sky, try getting together with Rinspeed to turn something out
Robert Walther
Wow! Even the animations look like they were rendered 20 years ago on a cheap PC running an early 3D CAD in preview mode The graphics are unnecessarily low res and amateurish. Makes me wonder about the 'supercar' reality potential. Advertising is a pain, but its sole purpose is making the product sizzle. If the ad sucks, especially using CAD 3D animation in 2014, then the talents and even the motives of the designer are highly suspect.
Don Wright
I'm surprised... ...that anybody funded this at all...
...and that Gizmag devoted a story to it... The website feels like I'm watching a middle school science fair presentation... Come on Gizmag... You can do better than hyping this silliness...
Bob Stuart
My friend in the biz remains unconvinced about this guy's bike being even rideable, let alone fast. It is nice to see that he has learned to use enough wheels for a good static display to con people with too much money and not enough imagination.
Daishi
His design is a pipe dream but may raise a valid talking point. Motorcycles have a fraction of the weight and frontal area of a regular automobile but they generally have god awful aerodynamics which is one of the reasons they don't get better gas mileage. I think most motorcycles have a drag coefficient of between 0.6 and 1 vs cars like Prius at .29 or Model S at 0.24. Drag is mostly (cD * frontal area * speed^2). If motorcycles had automobile level drag coefficients they would get 2x to 4x the gas mileage at sustained speed. It makes me wonder why more aerodynamic motorcycles aren't more common.
Island Architect
Try a Monotracer Daishi!.. > 200MPGe And if he really wants an efficient fast vehicle he'd cut the rolling resistance in half using bogied pairs in an 8 wheel configuration. Hey they have been doing that on the rail lines for over 100 years. Why is the dawn breaking so slowly in the Automotive world? The lemming instinct! Bill
DemonDuck
And there is also the Dymaxion car. Nothing new here... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_car
RussellD
Ludicrous pie in the sky. I find it reassuring that so little money has been raised for financing; I think the public at large must have more common sense than the designer who apparently is a day dreaming amateur. I say amateur because there are a number of fundamental mistakes made in the design which are evident even in this superficial description of the vehicle.
Furthermore, "4-6 seats and a trunk capable of accommodating a washing machine" is not feasible in the configuration shown without the outboard wheels having too wide a track to be road legal, not to speak of parallel parking difficulties - or does this vehicle go sideways into a spot?
Oh, and try to find a spot long enough to take the 2 seater shown, let alone a 4-6 seater.
Even reporting on this as anything but an example of imagination run riot is to diminish the credibility of Gizmag. I'm on the verge of unsubscribing (again).