*breathing heavy*
*heart racing*
*reaches for inhaler*
*realizes, crap, I don't use an inhaler*
*may be hyperventilating over here*
*trying to breathe deep*
*slowing heart rate*
*slow deep breaths*
*slower*
*slower*

...yeah, um...it's okay I guess. Whatevs.

92BuickLeSabre

@junyo: @graphx:

Lies I tell you! Lies! Pure anti-cape propaganda!

Look at Batman. Look at Superman. They've been rockin their capes for years! You just have to make sure you're fully trained for cape use, in all possible scenarios. Scenarios such as flying beside a plane, lifting a train off the tracks, or waiting in line with rabid Apple fanbois for an iPhone 3G....like the Woz.

Woz wears a cape right?

Chromeo is typing this on his iPhone 3G

@junyo: yes capes are bad... people always die from their capes duh!

graphx

Does it leave a trail?

Magnakai Haaskivi

@Hectorvex: Someone hasn't seen the Incredibles.

junyo

Me want.

stryder100

I'll take 2 in frickin laser blue and 2 in frickin laser red. Me and my friends are going to do some Tron-ing in midtown Manhattan. Duel to the death, muthafracka!!!!!1!!1!!

jibbly

That thing looks redonkulous. (That's a good thing)

sorensilk

The nose obviously takes it's design cues from a machine age steam train:
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which is kinda cool, but honestly, I'm more concerned with the ass burn I'd get from the twin mufflers situated right behind the seat...

LA_Longhorn

I hope it comes with asbestos boots, those pipes look ready to burn some ankles.

Motorcycles have done well with the form-follows-function school of design. Big plastic pieces went out with the 80s. Those wheels look absurd.

The Lab

DO WANT!
That Atomo is pretty snazzy too.

brainwav

Does it come with a cape? I'll need a cape.

Hectorvex

why yes uh ill take 1 in black. no wait red. no, yellow. crap so many choices.

looks awesome.

graphx

Wow!

gotsmart

@Log1c: This thing is driven by pure driver exitement and bystander envy

Whisssper

Where the hell is the drive mechanism?

Log1c

Swede! [gizmodo.com]

Bos'un's Mate

holyshitballs. remember the dodge bike a few years ago called thunderballs or something? that thing was HUGE too.

Stacky Botrus

With rare linguistic irony, those tires manage to be both fat and phat.

Gann

@Hectorvex: hahaha dat was good.

tsatsut

@Log1c: I'm looking at the UGO gallery, and one of the versions appears to be a tricycle!

Bos'un's Mate

The front of that bike looks like it is going to create major drag. Surely we should be looking at a more aerodynamic bike these days?

The bike from Akira would be sweet.

twilight-arc

But does it come with a res'd wall that can defeat traffic?

OldCrow

@Chromeo is typing this on his iPhone 3G: Screw those guys. Spawn's cape if freaking alive!

Barry99705

They need to stop making bikes that you ride in this position it's just not very practical, we need a more reclined seat, similar to the Akira bike.

robotleawesome

@Magnakai Haaskivi: Someone could put a big roll of fabric on the back that unrolls and creates the trail! eheheh.

Ariel_Wollinger

So I guess it uses the Honda Valkyrie and Goldwing flat-6. . .

Scaramanga

TETSUO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Titus_Andronicus

Bicycle, tricycle, I'm waiting for the quad before I start ridiculing it!

Hvedhrungr

looks very AKIRAish..

ws6kid

@Jesse Mrozowski: Steampunk!

Bos'un's Mate

@Stacky Botrus: You're thinking of the Dodge Tomahawk

[en.wikipedia.org]

Jesse Mrozowski

does it come with spinners? o o o, wait... where is the front?

chaz9205

Looks like one of the motorcycles from FFVII: Advent Children...

CutePuppyz

Does it fly?

Looks like a 2-wheel version of the Blade Runner spinner...

Jordan Lund

Powerplant appears to be the rather long-in-the-tooth Goldwing 1800 engine. Honda's been using this same design since '99. Granted, it's a good motor, but why do "designers" always tend to push size over substance?
Dammit, I don't need 400 pounds of motor between my legs.
It'll just end up crushing my legs beyond surgical repair when that dumbass "doesn't see me" and attempts to drive her SUV directly over me in traffic.

treetop1000

Cool PLASTIC wheels!

bonedog73

@twilight-arc: Actually you might be surprised how un-aerodynamic even the average sports bike is. They get there amazing speed and acceleration from the fact those engines can put out insane amounts of power. Which leads me too... a six-cylinder engine?? That's pure tiny-penis therapy right there.

Looks hot though.

Blue Oyster Cultist

@treetop1000: it works, it's reliable, it's powerful.

the engine is a sensible choice, from a design perspective. Besides, 99 isn't long in the tooth, the 500cc plant in the kawi ninja 500 is much older, the 250cc plant in the honda rebel is older still.

s0crates82

That looks sexy. I would be even happier if the last concept they had wasnt so outrageously different. They probably know that if they made this that there would be a great deal of motorcycle enthusiasts going crazy over this thing and making it a exclusive model with a exclusive amount in circulation would make them a pretty penny.

SneakerFiend

Does it transform?

DaWhoLagn

Before I can even begin to give a rip about this thing, it desperately needs to be renamed. iCare are the people who can't tell me when the hell the iPhone that my credit card has been billed for will arrive. That, alone, turns sexy into nosexy.

halloweenjack

do want, it looks like it can be a steamroller and motorcycle in one.

UltimateIdiot

Great, now I'm going to have to go get something to wipe up all the drool from looking at the pictures.

I don't want one. I want two.

Nick-Tick

I'm still pining for the bike from Akira

[cache.gizmodo.com]

But not a freaking scooter kit!

smegz

@halloweenjack: damn, beat me to the obvious

Oracle989

Paint it a semi-gloss white and call it the iCare

Oracle989

That looks amazing...maybe being called an Organ Donor by ER Doctors will be worth it for this one.

bobx3

This just made it to my "weird n cool" sport bikes collection.

Somadis

So this thing has, like, no suspension?

Ouch.

Sian

bikes, by and large, are as aero as a 4x8 piece of plywood. erik buell's first design, was conceived using the classic teardrop shape, not for the style, but to make up for the lack of grunt in the old ironhead sportster motors that he had acquired from harley.

[www.teamelves.com]

godwhacker

Looks slow, like the batpod.

loslosbaby

Oh it's not slow, the Goldwing engine makes 124ft lb. of torque and having been an 04 Goldwing owner, this will move easily with that engine. With a K&N air filter it really moves above 3,000rpm, probably a 10 percent power increase from what I could tell after installing one. I'm sure this weighs less than a full dress Goldwing, and those do low 12 second quarter miles (have seen stock Goldwings do 12.29's), so you can only guess what this thing can do.

Hello_Newman

Yeah, but the last prototype seemed a little too typical a bike! Makes me wonder how well you could steer it. As for capes, can't tell if this thing's worthy of the Edna Seal of Approval. Can't see where the body ends and the wheel begins!

Mr.Wilson

I bet those crazy exhaust cans keep the back tire(s?) nice and sticky!

bpapa9013

i get the name.
like i care.

001

I love it...now only if the turning radius wasn't as big as my city I would buy it.....

ajile

@Titus_Andronicus: DAMN BEAT ME TOO IT

Nemesisesq

"i.care" is like a "save the trees" sticker on a humvee.

but the name suits it, i care, therefore i am allowed to own this fine piece of imaginary machinery.

I want the handle bars, all lights, foot pedals, and pegs to be completely hidden when parked.

Just walk up to it, and everything reveals itself.

skulldriveshaft

i can't wait to steampunk this thing.

quasimotto