Riding a motorcycle is really cool and the adrenaline is a really nice feeling. Well, somebody thought to change the way that the motorcycle will transport you. Jake Loniak, a student at the Art Center College of Design, has came up with a system that will act as an extension of your body.
His idea came from Biomechatronics and he dubbed his concept as the Deux Ex Machina and will consist of an vertically parking motorcycle that will be managed by 36 pneumatic muscles with 2 linear actuators. The Deus Ex Machina is Yamaha-branded and it will be worn as an exo-skeleton and the helmet will be pneumatically attached.
The in-wheel motor will be able to power the motorcycle from 0 to 60mph in 3 seconds and it will have a maximum speed of 75mph. The Deus Ex Machina is electric and it can cycle one hour with a recharge time of 15 minutes.
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May 30th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
most dangerous invention ever?
May 30th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
it’s a pretty slick design, but seriously. you’d be dead before your hour of battery life was gone.
May 30th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
only if your high, drunk, stupid, retarded, or American.
May 31st, 2008 at 12:02 am
So what about shocks? You hit a bump and you would feel it through your whole body.
May 31st, 2008 at 12:05 am
I really want to ride this.
May 31st, 2008 at 12:06 am
No more so than a motorcycle.
May 31st, 2008 at 12:15 am
I wonder how this would be recharge. Can it be recharge by us paddling? Well, that would be kind of cool. But how can we slow down in the middle of the highway to recharge? And yes, it’s kind of dangerous with such high speed and so much exposure.
May 31st, 2008 at 12:28 am
I wouldnt say dangerous, could even be more controlable then a normal bike, but it sure as hell dosnt look very comfertable i wonder is it? Still its Uber awesome and i would love to have one if they went to the production line looks v. futuristic straight out of Manga.
May 31st, 2008 at 12:39 am
This is the best thing in the world.
May 31st, 2008 at 12:45 am
Naw…that would be the gun or the deep fat fryer.
May 31st, 2008 at 12:46 am
I see that there are at most 3 places that keep one from sliding on the pavement. I can only imagine that it is a bit of a workout to keep yourself off of the ground. I think I’ll stick to my bicycle. Props to the 15 min recharge time tho.
May 31st, 2008 at 1:02 am
Slap a machine gun on that, and you’d have one heck of a tool for the infantry.
Also, if it’s made out of strong enough materials, and had guards in place for your legs and such, it might actually be safer than a regular motorcycle… Other than for the fact that your head is so low, giving you an impaired field of vision.
May 31st, 2008 at 1:03 am
I agree, this invention is very dangerous. Lower the speed to a max of 20 mph
May 31st, 2008 at 1:26 am
Wow, looks really uncomfortable, you legs would drag along the road.
May 31st, 2008 at 1:27 am
mega badass.
May 31st, 2008 at 1:35 am
lolz so true
May 31st, 2008 at 1:35 am
How fucking stupid some of your comments are. This is a biomechanical vehicle that is operated by actuators and pneumatic controls. The wheel base is wide and very stable. The design will not collapse in the opposite direction due to locking devices. You are held in by a pneumatic harness that is stronger than a regular car seatbelt. This design is 100x’s safer than a motorcycle. There will be a minimal amount of force needed to operate this vehicle by the operator. In essence, it is easy to control and drive. Basically it will drive itself with just a minimum amount of body motion.
May 31st, 2008 at 1:40 am
“American” pretty much encapsulates the words you used leading up to it. That’s why we’re so fucking awesome.
May 31st, 2008 at 2:06 am
lolz so true, we are awesome.
May 31st, 2008 at 2:09 am
I think it looks like a Yamaha, not fully thought out and half assed. I would like to see someone ride the thing.
May 31st, 2008 at 2:20 am
I wonder if the inventor ever watched Return to Oz?
May 31st, 2008 at 2:24 am
Gorgeous. But the attached helmet is a bad bad idea. It’s one thing to straddle 500 pounds of bike. It’s another thing to stick your head in it. Can anybody imagine what it would be like to try to ditch a bike with their head stuck to it?
May 31st, 2008 at 2:38 am
Two questions, first, how do you steer it and, second, when will the version with wings be coming out?
May 31st, 2008 at 2:43 am
1) Why is the helmet attached? Wouldn’t it be simpler to just use a regular helmet?
2) With the front wheels on either side of the rider, wouldn’t he crash headfirst into poles, or kneefirst into anything lower than his head?
3) Deus Ex Machina (god from machine) doesn’t really make sense.
May 31st, 2008 at 2:58 am
at least a lot of us know when to use “you’re”.
May 31st, 2008 at 3:06 am
Yea … that would make it sell … real fast.
May 31st, 2008 at 3:55 am
Batman would drive one of these
May 31st, 2008 at 4:03 am
Sometimes I forget how utterly awesome we Americans are, till someone else proves their own stupidity.
May 31st, 2008 at 4:06 am
Sure, it looks badass and great. It was made by an art student at an art/design school.
I’d trust it a lot more, or think it might actually get made, if it was at least designed by an engineer. As is, it’s nothing more than a pretty idea.
May 31st, 2008 at 4:23 am
from 0 to below a truck in 5 seconds. I think we have a winner. Wow!
May 31st, 2008 at 4:29 am
It’s cool, but it’s not the same as a motorcycle if it has 3 wheels instead of 2 right? I mean, how can u squeeze through traffic with this?
May 31st, 2008 at 4:56 am
Yamaha is NOT an American company, dolt.
May 31st, 2008 at 5:21 am
Ill stick to my harley thanks
May 31st, 2008 at 5:28 am
id laugh if i saw a dude on the interstate with one
May 31st, 2008 at 6:05 am
Death of the future!!! I like it. And I never usually like gay crap like this, so they did something right for a change. I’d buy one, seriously.
May 31st, 2008 at 6:05 am
In the event of a collision, it looks like this helmet-built-into-frame thing would help direct as much force as possible into the top of your skull.
May 31st, 2008 at 6:11 am
THEY SHOULD REMOVE THE TRAINING WHEELS.
May 31st, 2008 at 6:34 am
Right, is that why it was designed by the Japanese? Don’t be jealous that America is the greatest country in the history of the planet. Just because we won’t let you in, doesn’t make us stupid. Try moving to Burma, then you’ll see just how important the United States is to the rest of the world. Without us: no computers, no airplanes, no global network infrastructure, and no one to sell crazy stand-up motorcycles to. WE WILL CONTINUE TO DRIVE THIS PLANET. LIKE IT OR NOT.
May 31st, 2008 at 6:59 am
Reminds me of Kenetica the PS2 game where people had motorcycle exoskeletons and you raced them from about six years ago
May 31st, 2008 at 7:04 am
I would ride this, if well thought out, probably not very hard. But maybe not for on the road.
It’s still a concept, not even a prototype. So if anything like this comes out it’ll be only .1 times as awesome.
On the dangerous part, I’ll have to agree with ed and nosactivated.
May 31st, 2008 at 7:37 am
is it safe to assume you’re american? I make it the internet.
May 31st, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Yes, I’m American, but my comment wasn’t a comment on, “This is the best thing in the world.” It was a comment on, “most dangerous invention ever?”
May 31st, 2008 at 5:54 pm
This idea was stolen from the ps2 game “Kinetica”
May 31st, 2008 at 6:26 pm
This part of the discussion has nothing to do with Yamaha.
It does, however, have everything to do with the Awesomeness of Americans with our unquenchable thirst for danger and drugs. America is the thrusting pelvis of Death, and you’re looking pretty good right about now, world.
May 31st, 2008 at 9:38 pm
You know, it IS good to be awesome especially when you’re on drugs and lusting for danger. GO USA.
oh and btw China pretty much sucks blue whale.
May 31st, 2008 at 9:42 pm
What better reason could their be not to concern yourself with battery life? If you’re dead it doesn’t matter.
May 31st, 2008 at 10:59 pm
:O You’d rather have the internet than SLICED BREAD? You’re the kinda freak we should lock up, internet my ass, when was the last time you cut a perfect slice of bread? Never? Damn straight.
June 1st, 2008 at 12:56 am
cool - but needs some rocket launchers to beat rush hour traffic as well.
June 1st, 2008 at 1:00 am
Actually, Kinetica stole this idea from the Wheelers on Return to Oz, back in the 80’s.
June 1st, 2008 at 3:44 am
Now if they only make a model with a reclining position… then you will have an extra 1/16th second to see your life flash before your eyes.
June 1st, 2008 at 4:20 am
Whoa… freaking AWESOME.
June 1st, 2008 at 7:29 am
its so nice! =)
June 1st, 2008 at 7:37 am
Awesome bike, weird helmet indeed, tho, that looks dangerous, maybe not the rest of it.
and for our air-headed gringo shitheads:
1) Right the US are the greatest country whose government killed tens of thousands of their own ppl in the history of mankind, wtg! then the rest figure it was TEH EVEL INAVDERZ from outside America! Nvm they were drinking tea with your president while banging your mothers.
btw…
2) The United States is ___NOT___ AMERICA. America is a fucking continent you fucking morons, and that includes you, Canada, Mexico all the way down to Peru and Argentina where your asses have never and might never step foot on. You do good to stay inside your fucking borders, everyone else hates you.
June 1st, 2008 at 8:40 am
THIS PAGE IS JUST FULL OF GIRLS ARGUING ABOUT HOW GOOD OR BAD THE USA IS ! GET OUT AND GET A LIFE LOSERS ! ! !
June 1st, 2008 at 10:40 am
This reminds me of the motorcycles in the 80’s movie Tron.
June 1st, 2008 at 1:03 pm
This is really cool, I really want to try it also.
Stumbled!
nhick
http://www.itrush.com
June 1st, 2008 at 1:22 pm
I think what sucks is that you must wear special clothing. Don’t think this is gonna make it, because it’s so pointless. Which advantages does it have?
June 1st, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Fake
this is photoshopped
June 1st, 2008 at 5:14 pm
that’s what she said
June 1st, 2008 at 5:15 pm
thats what she said
June 1st, 2008 at 5:15 pm
‘MERICA! WOOHOO
June 1st, 2008 at 7:07 pm
One pothole and you are dead, or at least severely messed up.
It appears that ejection from an accident might be gruesome, considering your head may remain as part of the bike.
While sleek and “cool”, this sucker needs an engineer, and a government safety inspector.
June 1st, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Air-headed or shitheaded? Pick one, because we can’t be both. Well, maybe if we’ve got a thin shell of shit filled with air. I guess that could work.
You stand corrected, sir, America has killed TENS of thousands of her own people. Mere thousands? That shit is for amateurs. Hey, you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
Secondly, welcome to your first geography lesson. The United States of America (USA, which could also stand for Uber Super Awesome), sometimes known colloquially as America, is in fact a country by itself. Your “America” is actually a continent called North America. Peru and Argentina are part of the continent of South America. Fuckin’ A, Google something once in a while before you go off on a self-righteous diatribe.
Thirdly, not everyone hates us. Santa Claus still shows up every year, and God hasn’t smote us in a long time, so we must be doing alright.
June 1st, 2008 at 8:02 pm
I tharink dat dis motocyle shoud be use by anyeoone lol
June 1st, 2008 at 8:50 pm
yeah Americans obviously ring the fu*kin bell while Yamaha asians comin in last smokin the L
June 1st, 2008 at 10:38 pm
its not just coincidence your name is ‘ferry’ because your behaving like a vagina….big, cavernous, carnivorous, moist, throbbing, gaping, pulsating vagina.
in relation, the U.S.A.(awesome) is the raging cock that fucks pussies like you
June 1st, 2008 at 11:25 pm
No engine and runs on batteries. It’s not a motorcycle.
June 1st, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Ok, this may not be the most glaring of safety concerns, but doesn’t it seem that having the helmet attached to the vehicle and not the driver is a recipe for broken necks?
June 2nd, 2008 at 12:22 am
sigh. I wish I was American… Then I could be awesome too
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:34 am
Everyone here is so brilliant.
June 2nd, 2008 at 4:35 am
Americans are bett4r than the rest of the world, they hate us because they envy our freedoms.
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:03 am
I think they meant Deus Ex Machina more along the lines of the literary term than the literal translation. Still doesn’t make all that much sense, but it sounds cool and it’s easy to remember.
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:08 am
“1) Right the US are the greatest country whose government killed tens of thousands of their own ppl in the history of mankind, wtg!”
That is just plain incoherent.
June 2nd, 2008 at 6:38 am
I was once asked by a merkin if I though we British could ever be as awesome as he and his countrymen… and I said no - we were too busy being completely ultra awesome.
Just look at the evidence - we give the world the three greatest sports in the history of man (Association Football, Rugby Football, and Ice Hockey) and then proceed to let everyone else win at them. How ultra-awesome is that?
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 am
Er….Nick..
>>Without us: no computers, no airplanes, no global network infrastructure, and no one to sell crazy stand-up motorcycles to. WE WILL CONTINUE TO DRIVE THIS PLANET. LIKE IT OR NOT.
All of those inventions are British inventions. As was the telephone, the television, electricity and, whilst we’re at it, The USA was a British invention.
Swivel.
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:57 am
this machine is very nice - god day YAMAHA
June 2nd, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Ironman V1.0 !
June 2nd, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Concept vehicles like this one may be completely impractical but they help foster new creative thinking about industrial design. That is their value. Who knows? 30 years from now a practical design might come out of what we see here today.
As for America, its easy to hate an entire country. No matter what country you live in, if you look at your history you will find bad decisions, corrupt governments and courts, ecological disasters, human rights violations, vicious criminal organizations, abused indigenous peoples, aggressive foreign policies and harsh isolationism.
Without exception, if you look at it honestly, you are what you hate. Work to make your country better NOW. Don’t point the finger because you just end up pointing at yourself.
Cool bike!
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Ima cut ya sucka
June 2nd, 2008 at 9:37 pm
i guess all the AMA races and rally races all over the world with foreign bikes winning don’t count? i’ll have to tell my uncle in the AMA that he can stop hating those riders on ducati’s
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Actually the USA was a FAILED British invention.
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:00 pm
You guys made up Ice Hockey?? That automatically qualifies you as Incredibly Awesome.
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:13 pm
dude, the telephone was invented by alexander graham bell, a scottish born american citizen. also, electricity was not invented, read a science book.
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:52 pm
this would be perfect if only it burned a lot of gas. and america is the best dam country in the world FUCK ALL YOU HATERS OUT THERE we could wipe out any one of your piece of shit tiny countries with a push of a single fucking button. peace and god bless.
June 3rd, 2008 at 12:38 am
Eh? Powered flight is a British invention, since when? O.o Of course, does it really matter who invented what as long as we completely improved it? As for the US being a British invention, your just talking out your ass. I mean to invent a country, they would of have to had to willingly allowed the colonies that were under their control and had a hand in the ideals behind it creation. Which they totally didn’t, if anything the British served as a sort of muse to inspire our forefathers on how to create a nation with ultimately more freedoms than the one they had left behind (Still true today, Canada, the UK, Japan, these are all countries where civil rights exist secondary to the will of the state. Not that the US hasn’t made great strides since 9/11 either, but not compared to you guys).
Oh, and by the way, you can’t invent electricity moron. You can only harness it, unless you also proclaim yourself to be the creator of the universe too? Also, I thought you should know the Germans are generally know to have invented what we know as the modern computer first with the Z3.
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:11 am
Yamaha is the maker and it’s also Japanese, Americans didnt create this, all of you are stupid.
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:50 am
No the Brits did not make up ice-hockey. it was a Canadian invention that we took from a deviation of the aboriginals playing lacrosse, get your facts straight. and Americans are not awesome your neighbors to the north are more awesome than you!
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:32 am
To all the people hating on this: It’s a CONCEPT VEHICLE people! This is how design and innovation work. The exact vehicle above will likely never see an assembly line, but things learned during its development and testing may make their way into other vehicles and devices. It’s the same as with every other concept device that you see on all the tech blogs and auto shows. If nobody pushes the envelope, nothing will ever be improved. Think Leonardo DaVinci, think Eli Whitney, think Henry Ford. It’s how stuff is done.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:25 am
We also invented the internet.
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:39 am
america sux.. get out of my country oil hungry freaks
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
No one is more awesome than us, thats why everyone hates America. Because we are better than you and everyone knows it. Who cares if we are stupid and on drugs. We’ll still bomb the shit out of you if you fuck with us…
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:31 pm
No, the UK invented the world wide web. Big different.
June 3rd, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Which one is that again?
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I think Americans should be prohibited to call someone stupid. It`s like looking in the mirror and saying “Wow, you`re really stupid”…
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Bananas - that’s definitely one of ours.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:04 pm
I think you’re forgetting that the Pentagon has lost nearly every armed conflict in the last century.
The only ones you’ve won is when the Brits have helped you out.
The Brits are pulling out of Iraq and Afghanistan leaving you there to lose so you’ll be praying to Allah soon.
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:06 pm
I’m sorry but your completely wrong you fucking imbecile. you have been brainwashed by your stupid religion and country.
June 4th, 2008 at 12:17 am
‘america is awesome’ is the biggest understatement of all time. word cannot begin to describe america the our awesomeness.
June 4th, 2008 at 12:42 am
Hey, I can just imagine the marketing department going wild over that idea. ” Revolution in battery concept. You never need to recharge the battery during your entire life.”
June 5th, 2008 at 1:32 am
“FUCK ALL YOU HATERS OUT THERE we could wipe out any one of your piece of shit tiny countries with a push of a single fucking button.”
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That is great, if not consistent with “peace and god bless”
To Kevin:
You forget it was the Americans who single-handedly destroyed the Japanese - without help from the “brits” and also you forget that it was us pussy americans who came in in 1942 and saved the day… I believe the Brits were, as Al may say, “fucked” without us.
And to all the people who somehow believe this is Yamaha’s concept:
It was not Yamaha’s design, it was Jake Loniak, who got support from Yamaha, who uses concepts like Jake’s to improve their vehicles, so they can make them even better than all the U.S. companies, who think very linearly and would not consider supporting a concept like this one because it would not lead to direct profits.
Something the Japanese have learned it “delayed gratification” - investing in something that doesn’t lead directly to reward, but will lead to it later.
BTW love the concept, although it could be rather difficult to steer constantly with the arms extended like that… it’d be a good workout in any case.
June 5th, 2008 at 1:33 am
shit I made a typo. I’m a stupid american.
June 5th, 2008 at 4:46 am
This was made with CAD…so not quite photoshopped.
June 5th, 2008 at 6:35 am
YOU BUILD IT I BUY IT!
June 5th, 2008 at 6:49 pm
It’s funny…no matter what the subject is,someone in the comment section will invariably find a way to bash the U.S. I’m curious, what the f*ck exactly does a Japanese concept motorcycle have to do with America?
June 5th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
cool lookin bike, wouldnt work tho, what holds the body in place, your pretty much holdin youself up with your arms, youd have to be chuck norris or somethin to ride that american beauty
June 5th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
this is by far the coolest tech ive stumbled upon
June 5th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Actually there would be computers, just no Microsoft or Mac. For a start Turing was English, no Turing, no computers. Most of the important breakthroughs in quantum physics and semiconductors were European. The world wide web was invented at CERN. Sir George Cayley, a Brit, invented aerodynamics, and developed all the important factors in heavier than air flight. Look up the history of heavier than air flight, it’s all European physicists and mathematicians. The Wright brothers only had the first manned flight, that doesn’t make the aeroplane an American invention. An aeroplane is any heavier than air fixed winged aircraft that is powered by propellers or jet engines, it does not have to be manned. So you would find that actually aeroplanes are not American. Global network infrastructure, well where would that be without the ITALIAN (not American) Guglielmo Marconi. Americans only drive this planet to war and poverty, not forward in development like you are trying to suggest, oh my fucking god I forgot the hugely significant sliced bread. Who cares. If America was awesome how come every one else hates you all. It’s because you are a bunch of arrogant dicks. Not all of you, Matt Stone and Trey Parker are great. I love the programmers of Crysis, CoD4 and so on. And allot of great music as come out of the fact that you enslaved a whole race. Also if you didn’t invade Vietnam and fuck it up so bad that the people that had to go through that torment had some great film scripts to write some of my favourite films wouldn’t exist. Basically fuck off with your jingoism and realise that the rest of the world exists and is allot more important, allot cooler, allot better at drinking (apart from Asia granted) and allot funnier, talented, better looking, less inbred and just better in general.
June 5th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
I’m Scottish so you think I would be standing up for my fellow countryman but I have to tell you that the telephone was not a British invention, just got patented here first. Of course it’s not American either. It’s an Italian invention. A guy called Innocenzo Manzetti invented it, but he couldn’t afford the cost to patent it, so was never credited with the invention.
But yeah, to the American’s stupidity, I was the guy that owned him on his comment.
June 6th, 2008 at 12:19 am
Ha! So awesome. When will they be street legal…I’m getting one when they do!
June 6th, 2008 at 1:14 am
the internet was invented by the US military to link its bases together. Like a lot of other technology we have ( GPS, Radio etc..) it trickled down into the rest of the country. America, fuck yeah.
June 6th, 2008 at 1:22 am
It is amazing how narrow minded many people from other countries can be. Yes I am American and yes I agree with you that an astounding number of people in this country are ridiculously unintelligent, but far from all or even the vast majority are. I don’t think France is filled with pompous arrogant pricks but there are a lot of them. Claiming one is the same as many makes you the unintelligent one. Furthermore, isn’t America just a melting pot of all the rest of you self proposed amazing countries. Please rethink your outlook on many Americans for most of us are actually quite intelligent.
June 6th, 2008 at 1:23 am
“the vast majority are not”, apparently you can’t edit accidentals.
June 6th, 2008 at 5:23 am
lol yurofags
June 6th, 2008 at 5:30 am
‘only if YOUR high..retarded..american’?? - your ignorance is showing America Rules Anything it wants
June 6th, 2008 at 5:55 am
While my guitar gently weeps.
June 6th, 2008 at 6:30 am
The cycle is cool. The nationalism sucks.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Temporarily speaking on behalf of the rest of the world America our anus is still a little sore from the last time you enlightened us so do you think you could leave out the “Pelvic thrusts of death” from the script for a while…? Anyway hey if you really have the urge… I-have an idea… Why don’t we see if Iraq will sell the arsholes of the citizens processed in it’s morgues from the democracy you bought them… We’ll get all of their dead arsewholes preserved in the spirit of your political bullshit & then export them to America & then you can finally satisfy that voracious sexual power-lustr of your’s… Then Iraq could make enough money from selling their asses direct to you for your people’s satisfaction to actually then FINALLY REBUILD IRAQ like you promissed…!
PS: Nice bike… I-want one already…
Robby
June 6th, 2008 at 10:25 am
What religion? I agree with Darwin.
The fact that you keep starting wars that you cannot finish is no secret.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:26 am
All the Yanks done in ‘42 was rape our women whilst we fought the war. Thanks for your help though.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Quite a few errors actually.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Oh, and Bravo for nuking the Japs. Well done, you must be very proud.
June 6th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Wow! What a bunch of pissed off people! Or maybe we’re all just cheering for our own home team… So try to think about it like this–
Austria gave us Hitler, who gave the Germans the Nazis. The Nazi’s believed in genocide (BAD) and scientific research (GOOD). Many German funded scientists left Nazi Germany, (Einstein, for one) to escape a less than promising future, and brought their research to the United States. The Nazi-funded research helped develop the Atomic Bomb, which the U.S. “delivered” to Japan on two occasions. Kinda sucks for Japan, seeing as how they had an alliance with the country that helped enable the weapon’s use in the first place. Let’s not even get into the rocketry..
Yahama and Honda are the biggest names in “Japanese” cars, no doubt. But they stopped being Japanese cars a long time ago. The technology became global 20 years ago, and the cars are now mostly built in the region where they will be sold.
Finally, the bike. Pure death-trap. It could be helped if the support was moved to the front of the rider, something to lean on instead of hang from. Stability could easily be worked out if the front wheels could pull together as speed increases, allowing the rider to lean the turns like a normal bike, but spread out at slower speed for more stability.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
In the history of mankind?? America is 232 years old. Check europe’s history you doosh.
June 6th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
No, wasn’t the internet invented by Al Gore
June 6th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Ice Hockey *was* invented by the British - admittedly when they were in Canada - by some of our guys whilst they were somewhat bored with Moose baiting and log rolling - so my awesome facts are awesomely straight thank you very much.
That aside, Canada does take the Awesomeness of the USA and combine it with the Ultra-Awesomeness of the UK to be pretty darn awesome themselves… Eh?
June 6th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
That’s us told then.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
you’re all a bunch of faggots.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Noice, that one stung me, and I’m Irish.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Guy… the world wide web needed the internet to exist first and that was invented by the Merkins (as a way of sending a go / no-go signal to the armed forces in case of a nookler attack - the alternative was using country and western radio stations believe it or not and the thought that they might survive Armageddon doesn’t bear thinking about).
Having said that, without the WWW stuff from Sir Tim at CERN, the internet would still be acoustic couplers and message boards and pretty much free of porn (and therfore crap)
So, in conclusion… you’re a penis.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Your blatancy.
American…
I thought so.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
I can tell by the pixels, and having seen quite a few shops in my time.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Including you, don’t forget.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Yeah, uh…
Freedom to pay for education? Oh and that other one, healthcare.
Nice one, you pay to survive, excellent freedom.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Tell me how you really fill about the Good old USA…………You must be a JACKASS Democratic
June 6th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
IT’S PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!
-PEANUT BUTTER JELLY TIME!
June 6th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
All of them.
June 6th, 2008 at 8:20 pm
A hyuk hyuk.
Go back to Mississippi, faggot.
June 6th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
America is so awesome and if you disagree then get off my internet cuz that was made in America along with everything else that is awesome
June 7th, 2008 at 12:48 am
the whole things photoshoped!! bloody well done too!!
still would be cool to ride that
June 7th, 2008 at 12:49 am
U will be fuked up if u ride dis … its oly a fiction n imaginary ,they cannot market this in d real world, if any1 is buyin this its oly jus for fun, yamaha will be into a deep shit if they release this motorcycle. So yamaha if ur reading this b careful….ur time has cme :))) lol
June 7th, 2008 at 3:03 am
Parker and Stone are synonymous with the term “arrogant dicks”. Why do you think America loves them so much? Some wonderful traits they share with us unimportant inbreds: Spite for pop culture, distrust and disgust of a government well beyond our control (you didn’t really believe we can tell them what to do, did you?), amusement at the expense of others (especially homosexuals, retards, transsexuals, and the socially impaired), love of cannabis… it’s a long list.
We never said we were the best at drinking. We are the best at drug abuse.
Aerodynamics isn’t something that was invented, it was discovered. If it was invented, then I’d have to assume that Sir George Cayley designed each and every bird/insect. Seems a bit improbable.
As for inventions, well what about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin? That did something. Actually, it made the mass production of firearms possible. Look, we could split hairs all day about this. If Gutenberg never invented the printing press, one could easily argue we’d have never arrived at computers. If the early Mesopotamians didn’t invent writing, Gutenberg probably wouldn’t have invented the press. If some fucked up early version of a human didn’t scrape or paint on the wall of a cave, maybe the Mesopotamians wouldn’t have thought to put words into marks. If some monkey didn’t need to stand up as a survival tactic, we wouldn’t have opposable thumbs. I think you see where this is going. Unless you’re a creationist.
Anyway, your last, um, well where there should be a paragraph only helps to prove why America rocks. If we never enslaved/oppressed Africans, no blues, no bop, no funk. How sad would that be? If we never made a mess out of Vietnam, none of your favorite movies would exist. No nuclear bomb, no “Dr. Strangelove”. If we don’t stop fucking up Iraq, who’s gonna make a great movie about it in 10 or 20 years? Nobody. So you see, if there’s one thing we do well, it’s planting the seeds of good through deeds of evil. Go America.
June 7th, 2008 at 3:44 am
Electric pnuematic, one fails and your drggin dick.
June 7th, 2008 at 6:48 am
next generation concept
June 7th, 2008 at 7:13 am
Dude, don’t confuse the internet (a packet switching network) with the world wide web (all the cool bits) because whilst the Merkins did invent the internet, the world wide web was invented by a Brit whilst working for CERN in Switzerland.
Thank you Sir Tim
Oh and that’s another one. Knighthoods also make us ultra-awesome in the UK even if you don’t believe me about Ice Hockey.
June 7th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Must I be the one to point out that America was isolationist until Europe started something called the Great War. And lets not forget that America also attempted to create something similar to the UN at the end of that war before returning to isolationism when Europe refused to accept that idea. And that does even touch on WW2.
Sure America has some shit in its history but so does everyone else. The fact of the matter is that everyone hates America because it is an easy target. America is a powerful force in the world today. This is bound to cause all forms of hatred by those not capable of having that kind of impact. Also, try sending reporters around ANY country looking for people who have no clue what is going on with anything.
That country is guaranteed to come out looking as though it is extremely stupid. Sure George W Bush is a stupid president and this is often taken to reinforce the idea that America is filled with idiots. However, Bush will very soon be leaving his position of power. You see we were smart enough to think a head and realize that when an entire people votes on its leader that sometimes a bad guy gets picked. So we let them stay 4-8 yrs. Then we rectify the situation.
In conclusion not only are you hypocritical and prejudice but you also may want to invest in learning how to think critically and separate myth from reality.
June 7th, 2008 at 8:07 am
It’s a DESIGN! It is therefore perfectly legit even if photoshopped.
Anon: u retard. That pixel argument is dumb. Different ppl use different resolutions for their computer due to screen sizes etc. This can cause strange patterns on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Thus just because it looks weird on the pixel level (This one does not, and I have very good eyesight) that still doesn’t prove anything.
June 7th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Actually they hate us because of stereotypical prejudices and the fact that everyone insists on using us as a scapegoat.
June 7th, 2008 at 8:13 am
No the USA was and is an “experiment” in the democratic republic started by the “undesirables” of Great Britain and other European nations. (Note: do to the current success of the US “undesirables” should be read as a very sarcastic, though truthful, term)
June 7th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Hey, an intelligent take on a very annoying debate.
I do tip my hat to you good sir.
(note: this is sincere. There is no sarcasm in this post)
June 7th, 2008 at 8:19 am
Well said!
June 7th, 2008 at 8:22 am
Locking mechanisms would be in place to prevent the bike from reaching full extension and you would be strapped to the main body to hold your body in position.
Or at least that is two of the first things that any engineer would add if they are not there.
June 7th, 2008 at 8:25 am
Actually we’ve kind of lost the whole melting pot thing for an ever so slightly blended segmented population. Stupid racial profiling. I hate thee in all thy forms. And that includes when I see thee on my census and my college application and my financial aid application and ….
Whoa, bad, no more ranting.
June 7th, 2008 at 8:45 am
“America is so awesome and if you disagree then get off my internet cuz that was made in America along with everything else that is awesome” by American.
The internet wasn’t made in America. It comes from CERN in Switzerland, and was developed by a UK scientist, i.e. Internet is European……
June 7th, 2008 at 10:41 am
you bet!
June 7th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Yamaha had nothing to do with this. It’s a design project by an Industrial Design student still in College in the US.
“Jake Loniak, a student at the Art Center College of Design…”
What bugs me is that this story is posted without any links to the student designer. I’d like to check out this guy’s portfolio. Not linking to the original also perpetuates the misconception that this is an actual product from Yamaha, and everyone gets into these silly arguments.
Again, while the project could have been sponsored by Yamaha, or it could have been a competition entry for them (which I have no clue, since there’s no link to the student’s info) it’s safe to say that Yamaha had nothing to do with this.
June 7th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
You geeks just wish you were Irish then understand why the world was made
June 7th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
here are some “awesome” americans.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuNgBkloFE
June 7th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Not at all. Have you never read snopes.com? It’s a site made out to verify or debunk popular rumors.