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Low rider said:
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10 Things We Just Found Out About The Aston Martin Brough Superior AMB 001

The AMB 001 is the latest collector's item from Aston Martin and Brough Superior.
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Cool bike, pretty terrible article.

For instance "CNC Chassis - The design of the AMB 001 is unique and aerodynamic. The sleek body is literally seamless, with no body panels visibly attached to each other. This is because Aston Martin and Brough Superior decided to mill the body out of a single block of metal.". Umm, a point further down the list is carbon body. Body panels /= chassis.

I call BS on the aero argument. It was clearly designed by an artist not an engineer. As a start, there is no windshield at all, the riders face and chest are out in the wind.

I like the look of the radial fins in the centre of the V. Not really sure if they have any function or if they are just design.
Price was a lot lower than I expected. I think $120-150K for a run of 100 bikes has them losing a lot of money (unless they mass produce after using the design).
 
Lightcycle said:
Realistically, these bikes are never going to be ridden. They're going to be kept indoors at all times, on display.
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Some will be. They are trivially cheap for most that will be buying them. I'm not saying they should have focused on aero in the design, just don't write complete BS in the article. Talk about how they spent hundreds of hours sculpting the shape.
 
The article is pretty much horse Pooh . But it’s a cool collaboration.


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I can more or less guarantee that bike will be absolute sh!te to ride, but it won't matter because they'll all be parked up in a garage with a hundred other collectible vehicles as a display object.

I'm ambivalent on the sportbike-but-not looks. While I appreciate the commitment to actually producing something similar to the designer's brief without diluting it too much (looking at you, B-King), it leaves me cold as a pure design exercise. Maybe it's the Aston Martin thing, but it looks to me like a motorcycle designed and built by people who don't actually ride motorcycles...
 
GreyGhost said:
I call BS on the aero argument. It was clearly designed by an artist not an engineer. As a start, there is no windshield at all, the riders face and chest are out in the wind.
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It looks like it was designed to be aerodynamic.... without a rider. The techs just never took into account someone has to sit on it to ride it...
 
I’m digging the electric turbo that is also an electrical generator.
Dying to meet the guy that can service that thing , do I have to fly him in from Austria ??


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crankcall said:
I’m digging the electric turbo that is also an electrical generator.
Dying to meet the guy that can service that thing , do I have to fly him in from Austria ??


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That part doesn't make sense to me. It has no access to the high-energy exhaust stream, only the low energy intake path. Seems like an expensive wank that would consume more fuel and cause far more issues than a typical rotor/stator charging arrangement.
 
AFJ said:
It was in November 2019, when this so-called "Aston Martin Brough Superior" first began to be touted in press releases.

There is - other than the last 2 words of the "name" - nothing in any way related to the make of motorcycles (Brough Superior) produced from 1920 until 1940 by one George Brough of Nottingham who died in Feb., 1970, or the Brough motorcycles produced by William Brough (George's father) from around 1907 to 1926.
George Brough's company, including his father's company (which George inherited in the 1930's) ceased making motorcycles in mid-1940 in order to fulfill contracts for crankshafts and camshafts for Rolls-Royce Merlin engines which powered the Spitfire and Hurricane fighter aircraft which won the Battle of Britain. A Rolls-Royce memorial to the pilots of the RAF, RCAF and other pilots, commemorates those who " turned the work of our hands into the salvation of our country".
After WW2 George Brough, whose company had grown from 1940 to 1945 from about 20 employees to over 250, turned to manufacturing other precision industrial components needed in peacetime. He did continue up until the late 1960's offer overhauls, repair and a parts service for the motorcycles his company had manufactured from 1920 to 1940. He also was a supporter of the Brough Superior Club in their efforts to use and preserve motorcycles bearing his name. Around 37% of the approximately 3,200 Brough Superior motorcycles manufactured by George Brough are known to still exist.
After George Brough died the firm of G.Brough Ltd. was sold to his senior employees and it continued until around 1983 when it was wound up and assets sold.

The current "Brough Superior" name and business seems - as far as I have been able to ascertain - to have originated as a separate entity from that firm which made motorcycles from 1920 to 1940. This new firm has manufactured and sold a few hundred motorcycles of their design introduced about 9 years ago. I do not know if any of the new design introduced in 2019 have been sold and used on public roads.

In 1969, I purchased a completely dismantled 1938 Brough Superior motorcycle. By 1971, I had overhauled and rebuilt it and it has been licensed and insured every year since for use on public roads. This has been possible through the support of the Brough Superior Club of Britain and its spares service and members of the Canadian Vintage Motorcycle Group, the national club for motorcyclists interested in old motorcycles.
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Your going to tease us with all that info and not post a single picture?

Hey guys I have this gorgeous gf with amazing figure that can change the head gasket on my Porsche while wearing a bikini... Nah not showing you a picture of her sorry....
 
GreyGhost said:
Some will be. They are trivially cheap for most that will be buying them. I'm not saying they should have focused on aero in the design, just don't write complete BS in the article. Talk about how they spent hundreds of hours sculpting the shape.
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Key thing to remember - these aren't street legal
 
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