Most motorcycle models seen in the movies can be had at a local dealership. But one iconic movie motorcycle hasn't been available because it wasn't even real. Until now.

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Most motorcycle models seen in the movies can be had at a local dealership. But one iconic movie motorcycle hasn’t been available because it wasn’t even real. Until now.

  • Rob T FireflyEnglish
    15•3 months ago

    Like so many things which look really cool in the context of a heavily stylized cartoon universe, when brought into full physical reality I can’t help but think this looks fairly impractical and just a bit stupid.

    • Nakedmole
      6•3 months ago

      Try to imagine it without the fairing, the geometry is in fact not that far from an old school chopper.

      Also certain recumbent bicycles have a pretty similar geometry, with the feet positioned even higher than the seat. They ride really well once you roll, just to get your feet of the ground and accelerate from 0 is what takes some getting used to because of the forward facing legs. However, this should be much easier without having to pedal to accelerate. Recumbent cycles are btw significantly faster than conventional cycles.

        • JilanicoOPEnglish
          4•3 months ago

          Don’t know what they’re thinking. It clearly has twin ceramic rotor drives on each wheel.

      • littleblue✨
        10•3 months ago

        True story: got stuck going to Yearbook Club after school to keep me out of trouble, but the popular kids ran the thing, so I hung out with the other geek: in pre-production. While everyone else only had to walk around and collect orders (slackers), the two of us were saddled with labeling and collating each student picture (and more) according to column and row and page. Being that both of us were way into Photoshop and video editing back then, we decided to see if we could get fake portraits printed in the yearbook.

        We knew they had to pass a cursory inspection, so the backdrop had to be the same and the overall composition needed to resemble the distance, palette, and style of the others’ school pics. That year, the other guy (nameless to protect the innocent) showed up in our yearbook as Brandon Lee’s The Crow, and my pic was Kaneda from the lock-up scene right before the grenade guy, when he looks over at Kaori. 🤘🏼

  • sab
    8•3 months ago

    Seems like an incredibly awkward way to sit on a motorcycle.

    • Jake FarmEnglish
      2•3 months ago

      It is called feet forward and is considered safer.

    • Mossy Feathers
      5•3 months ago

      It’s also less than $30k, assuming the price isn’t a typo. Tbh I feel like that’s a reasonable trade-off because it’s at least affordable.

      • @w2tpmf@lemmy.world
        13•3 months ago

        30k is like really expensive for a motorcycle.

        You can buy a high end BMW s1000rr or Yamaha R1m for around 20k, and both of those go close to 200mph and have tons of high tech riding assist features all while looking like a piece of art.

        This thing is a scooter that they put a body on and are charging a ridiculous amount for.

        • littleblue✨
          2•3 months ago

          This.

          I mean, it’s an art bike (see: 1 Moto Show, et al), so I get it. You’re not wrong about some bikes transcending their humble origins. 🤘🏼

          • @w2tpmf@lemmy.world
            1•3 months ago

            I disagree that this is an art bike. This is a gimmicky replica knockoff of existing art banking on nostalgia for its value. The makers of it aren’t expressing their artistic vision. They’re making a cash grab from nerds who grew up and made enough money to buy shit they wanted when they were kids.

            If someone made this as a passion project because they were the nerd that grew up and wanted to bring it to life for themselves…then I’d call it an art bike. Instead it’s a product.

            • littleblue✨
              1•3 months ago

              You’re confusing “art” with “art you like”. All gallery art exists to “make a cash grab from nerds who grew up and made enough money to buy shit they want”, FFS. Really, just depends on your definition of nerd. Just because you don’t want to buy it doesn’t don’t its value as art for those who appreciate it. 🤓

              • @w2tpmf@lemmy.world
                0•3 months ago

                No I am not confusing them.

                Again art is created with creative expression.

                A thing that is designed to be made in numbers for the purpose of selling to customers isn’t art.

                If this is art then a Tesla cars, iPhones, and and Stanley cups are all art. Someone designed all those things…but they are products.

                This thing doesn’t even have a design that was made by those selling it. It’s a copy of someone’s art, made into a product.

                • littleblue✨
                  0•3 months ago

                  So, “a copy of someone’s art” is not art and simply being a product invalidates a thing’s ability to be art? Interesting take, and I think you’ll find that it’s not only resoundingly false but completely unsupported. You are, in fact, mistaking the definition of “art”. Try again?

  • @PowerCrazyEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    Can we bring the Akira demon beast to life as well?