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Title: Honda Three-wheeler
Post by: leafman60 on October 02, 2015, 02:17:57 PM
http://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/tokyo/the-honda-neowing-is-a-future-retro-goldwing-trike/ar-AAf0aM3

Title: Re: Honda Three-wheeler
Post by: rodekyll on October 02, 2015, 02:23:54 PM
Looks prickly.  Are these things designed by 8-y-o mutant turtles?
Title: Re: Honda Three-wheeler
Post by: Dogwalker on October 02, 2015, 02:31:27 PM
Oh, see! Honda removed a wheel from the Yamaha Tesseract.

(http://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/AAf02XY.img?h=546&w=728&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=1174&y=952)

(http://thefutureofthings.com/upload/items_icons/Yamaha-Tesseract-Concept_large.jpg)
Title: Re: Honda Three-wheeler
Post by: MGPilot on October 02, 2015, 05:04:45 PM
It's just hard for me to warm up to the Raging Insect style on some bikes, etc.
Title: Re: Honda Three-wheeler
Post by: Arizona Wayne on October 02, 2015, 05:56:00 PM
1 thing for sure, it doesn't have any of the storage practicality of a MP3.  Strictly for 1 dimensional use.
Title: Re: Honda Three-wheeler
Post by: rboe on October 02, 2015, 06:31:18 PM
Have designers forgotten how to use a French Curve?
Title: Re: Honda Three-wheeler
Post by: rodekyll on October 02, 2015, 07:05:34 PM
They think a French curve is internet porn.   :boozing:

If I made a trike with a manual transmission I think I'd start with a Goldwing.  I don't think it would end where this one does though.   :shocked:
Title: Re: Honda Three-wheeler
Post by: bigbikerrick on October 02, 2015, 07:31:53 PM
I wish Honda would make a touring oriented reverse trike, with the 6 cyl boxer motor. I love my Goldwing trike, Its a DFT conversion with independent rear suspension.Its the  best bike for me to ride my wife on the back , but I wish it had the 2 wheels on the front instead of the rear. If it would lean like an MP3, man that would be perfect!
Rick.
Title: Re: Honda Three-wheeler
Post by: LowRyter on October 02, 2015, 07:32:56 PM
I bet that thing would kill you in 10 minutes.   :cry:
Title: Re: Honda Three-wheeler
Post by: oldbike54 on October 02, 2015, 08:04:38 PM
Man I gotta have one of those!!

Wonder if they will have a towing package option.

:-)

 Don't think it will tow the Healey  :rolleyes:

  Dusty
Title: Re: Honda Three-wheeler
Post by: elvisboy77 on October 02, 2015, 09:04:21 PM
Nope! Nope! Nope!
Title: Re: Honda Three-wheeler
Post by: cwiseman on October 02, 2015, 09:28:30 PM
Three wheelers were outlawed in the 80's for a reason!
But I do understand it's the only way some people can still be in the wind and I respect that. Why give up something you enjoy when you could compromise a little and still be out there doing what we all love doing.
Title: Re: Honda Three-wheeler
Post by: canuguzzi on October 02, 2015, 10:38:46 PM
Three wheelers like the CanAm, MP3 and this Honda are not your father's three wheeler that was a quick way to a hospital. Completely different machines.
Title: Re: Honda Three-wheeler
Post by: krglorioso on October 02, 2015, 10:46:10 PM
It's a prop for the next Godzilla or Mothra movie.

Ralph
Title: Re: Honda Three-wheeler
Post by: oldbike54 on October 02, 2015, 10:49:29 PM
It's a prop for the next Godzilla or Mothra movie.

Ralph

 Ralph gets the cookie  :laugh:

  Dusty
Title: Re: Honda Three-wheeler
Post by: toma nova on October 03, 2015, 07:07:49 AM
Three wheelers like the CanAm, MP3 and this Honda are not your father's three wheeler that was a quick way to a hospital. Completely different machines.


Bought brand new in 1986 when I was 18, just arrived at my first permanent base, Luke AFB oustide Phoenix.  Could ride the wide open desert from just outside the main gate (no development around back then).

Tons of fun in the sand!!

(http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j159/toma_nova/ATC350X_1985_US_4.jpg)
Title: Re: Honda Three-wheeler
Post by: biking sailor on October 03, 2015, 08:00:38 AM
The key is that it can lean, like a MP3.  I don't like the width on the road, but when I can't hold a bike up or control it at low speed (hopefully quite a few years off) this holds a lot of promise.

And styling is a matter of taste.  But notice how older guys like the rounded curve designs  of the 80's and 90's and younger like the angular edgy designs of modern bikes.  I think it's just what was in style when we were first infatuated with motorcycles.