[eon]

This is pretty impressive.

Put a 1000cc engine in there and away you go!

[eternal05]

Now easier than ever, thanks to Honda!

No in all seriousness, that’s pretty sweet technology. It reminds me of a totally fanciful engineering project I attempted while in college that…well…didn’t turn out nearly so well (obviously). I do have to wonder if, like the Segway, it’s really more of an engineering feat and less a practical application. Do you know if Honda actually plans to produce these at any reasonable scale?

[eon]

I doubt there is any plan to produce these, I’m thinking it’s more of an R&D project for them. But this is just speculation on my part. Have to confess I had visions of *ahem*, slightly rotund people gliding round Wally World on these.

[SantaCruzRider]

I have to confess that my mind went there too — shame on me. But judging my the models used in the video, the beta probably has a 90 lb weight limit.

This could have some really cool applications for folks with disabilities. For road applications, I’d hate to consider the cost of replacing those tires –

Cool post Eon

[eon]

It was when they were gliding around looking at pictures that image came to me. Reminded me of the Wall-E movie. Other thought that came to me was the Harley bashing thread on here. When you look at what Honda are doing, research for the sake of expanding knowledge, can’t help but think they will be better placed to adapt to changing times and markets than others.

[owlie]

That is pretty sweet. But I think I like walking.

[SantaCruzRider]

But then how do you explain the Honda Fury?

[eon]

Was that the chopper bike? Didn’t look too bad to me, but then I’m not into those kind of bikes so I don’t know why it didn’t take off. More confusing was the DN-01 but at least they are trying new things. They are not afraid to fail which I like. If they stuck with tried and tested would they ever have progressed beyond super sport bikes?

[eternal05]

After analyzing its sales, Honda’s looking to make two more trim variants of the Fury, at least according to some press release I read. Somebody must have liked it.

[eternal05]

Wall-E is exactly what I had in mind

[Eddiepowerfm]

saw a DN-01 on the highway this morning. Took me by surprise.

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