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Vyrus 986 Moto2 Bike - I love innovative engineering

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I realize the hub-centric steering idea isn't exactly, but it looks like Vyrus is trying to make it work. In combination with the other design elements of this bike, it seems they've come up with something quite unique. I'm glad they're going racing with it, I really want to see how competitive it is. Although, I imagine it's a quite expensive bike.

[video=youtube;kXRCLuodY-A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXRCLuodY-A&feature=feedu[/video]

Anyone ridden something like this?
 
still not quite sure how the front wheel turns lol. maybe a video close up would be nice haha. and is that a 600rr dash?
 
All Moto2 bikes run a tuned CBR600 motor. The teams have the motors delivered to them, sealed up, and they are not allowed to open the motors. All teams are given identically prepped and dyno tested motors. This would explain the CBR dash.

Dear Vyrus- Please build a naked road going version of this bike!
 
SkyRider said:
still not quite sure how the front wheel turns lol. maybe a video close up would be nice haha. and is that a 600rr dash?
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Right around 2:40 you get an idea. That pushrod you see running outside the swingarm controls that lever, which in turn cams the front hub around in the swingarm. The front hub/axle is not directly mounted to the swingarm, it's able to turn on a plane that is nearly horizontal. The pushrods are controlled the a mechanism mounted to the steering stem.

It looks like they actually simplified the design, there used to be a third rod used as a drag link for the front brakes. See: Vyrus 985.
 
Depends what you call a regular bike. My KTM and wife's Ninja 250 turn hella tighter than my GSXR1000 did.
 
hub-center steering is not a unique or even a new concept.

several other manufacturers have built bikes with this type of front end configuration, with limited results.

The premise is to remove braking forces from the suspension equation, allowing the front end to be far more compliant than it could be with a conventional fork that must deal with brake dive forces as well as road contact force.

The idea works, but conventional forks are so simple to make and have so much R&D into them, these other designs end up being little more than a novelty.
 
reciprocity said:
The idea works, but conventional forks are so simple to make and have so much R&D into them, these other designs end up being little more than a novelty.
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not too long ago i remember the idea that the earth was round was such a novelty.
 
reciprocity said:
hub-center steering is not a unique or even a new concept.

several other manufacturers have built bikes with this type of front end configuration, with limited results.

The premise is to remove braking forces from the suspension equation, allowing the front end to be far more compliant than it could be with a conventional fork that must deal with brake dive forces as well as road contact force.

The idea works, but conventional forks are so simple to make and have so much R&D into them, these other designs end up being little more than a novelty.
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Who knows? Maybe this'll finally be the team that makes hub-steering successful. It might not take much, since it's a form a suspension design that utilizes a regular shock and a swingarm - a fairly well understood arrangement at the back of a bike. Less complicated and foreign than, say, a Hossack-type front suspension.
 
caboose483 said:
NASA spends millions of dollars designing a pen that will work in space.. Russians use a pencil.
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what do you care? they spent american tax money :D

a pencil u need to sharpen. having pieces of wood dust floating around surely can get annoying. even with these clicky pencils, a little too much pressure the tip snaps now you have a tiny piece of charcoal floating away.
 
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caboose483 said:
NASA spends millions of dollars designing a pen that will work in space.. Russians use a pencil.
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SkyRider said:
what do you care? they spent american tax money :D

a pencil u need to sharpen. having pieces of wood dust floating around surely can get annoying. even with these clicky pencils, a little too much pressure the tip snaps now you have a tiny piece of charcoal floating away.
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I hate this myth.

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
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