Ipothesys Aria V12 thread

[greyghost]

Why worry about the seat? This is not a bike you sit on. You're supposed to hang off the inboard side while you turn, then crawl up on the tank as you accelerate. Your butt really shouldn't get involved in this relationship.
Amirite?

[rodekyll]

Would some girls posing with the bike help?
  :D

Which ones are girls?  I'm only asking because it looks more like a couples moment from the rocky horror picture show.

[Tom]

After about 4 beers they'll look fine. ;D
 :pop :pop :pop

[Vasco DG]

Whereas we are all ravishing examples of Addonis like beauty eh Tom???? ;D I spend a significant portion of my life beating off Brazilian supermodels, (Sigh!) What a chore!!!! ;) :D :D :D

VDG

[Tom]

That's why I'm okay with the 4 beers.  ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L11fQ6-QTIc&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIT3WlIyy1Y&feature=fvsr

[guzzimike]

  Funny that I'm the old fart when its usually me asking others to 'Get with the programme' and stop stop trying to remain trapped like flies in the amber of the 1970's!!!! ;D

VDG

But Vasco, Amber, to some of us, is GOLDEN... ;-T   ;-T   ;-T


Yes, I'm "Stuck in Time" in regards to '70s Cafer Racers...

Probably for the many of the same reasons that I think that the Best American Muscle Cars were built between 1965 and 1971...

They simply are Machines at the apex of the design theme to me..


YMMV, and all that... :)


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[Vasco DG]

No problem with that Mike. I too am very fond of designs of that period. I just don't think that there is much to be gained by simply 'Reinventing' the same styling cues endlessly and serving them up as *new*.

As I just said, I love the V7 Cafe. If immitation is the sincerest form of flattery the 'Cafe' does it well whereas the 'Racer is just a vulgar nightmare, (IMO ::))

Freshness in styling design requires moving forward and change/novelty. My belief is that certain Guzzis, the Centauro and it's bastard offspring the Griso epitomise that. The bike that was featured that started this thread simply, to me at least, seems to be trying to make a base package look like 'Something Else' and to me that 'Something Else' looks boring and derivative and harks back most closely to the Kawasaki GPz900 of, (Good God!) probably close to 30 years ago from Japan.

If the best these people can do is immitate a set of thirty year old design cues I'm afraid it holds exactly zero interest for me, (The GPz 900 was a truly fantastic, iconic machine.).

'New' means novel and, hopefully, exciting. To me that bike is neither novel or exciting, it is hackneyed, boring and derivative.

Please note that these are MY OPINIONS and hold precisely no more or less value than any other person's on the innerneck.

VDG

[Strom]

and I add:  mein Fuß ist von f***ing deine Mutter müde.

At least use the proper language to curse, jebo vam pas mater vola u pičku!


Got this from a friends post on FB (you can also catch him on lifeisaroad.com), Daniel Meyer:

"A seasonal ill...making folks "testy" on some of the forums I frequent...

PMS and Forumites (a work in progress)

Twas the month after Christmas
And all through the net
Controversy was building
Tempers put to the test

The forumites were stirring
All smug in their views
Inane and extreme posts
Flowed fast and flowed loose.

The admins all hustled
From one board to ‘nuther
Whacking some posts
And editing some others

Explaining the rules
For the ten-thousandth time
It’s not that complex
What’s wrong with these guys?

Cruising the posts
Now what the heck’s up?
Oh crap, not him again
Will that guy ever shut up?

Now Obama! Now Bush! Now Gingrich! Now Clinton!
On Jesus! On Odin! On Santorum! On Nixon! (Nixon? WTF?)

“You’ve got the wrong oil!” “You mentioned your god!”
“You ride a Honda!” “Well you ride a hog!”

“I’ll buy you a beer if I don’t kill you first.”
“Hey I don’t even ride!” “Hey I hate your shirts!”

What’s wrong with these guys?
Well the problem’s well known
Just exactly like last year

It’s *PMS*, that's Parked Motorcycle Syndrome.

So what do we do for this seasonal ill?
Do we ban? Do we cancel? Do we change? Do we kill?

“Let’s vote” scream the few
“Let’s quit” says another
“Let’s all praise the admins”
Says one enthusiastic brother

On every topic some “experts” must post
Intent to divide, and a post count to make most.
“This’ll make these guys riled, regardless of merit
Wait, no one’s arguing? I MUST dangle this carrot!”

Civility and restraint would calm this with reason
“But I’ve got a point to prove! And hey, tis the season!”

“Shut up all you guys!” say some, “I’ll take my ball and go home!”
Feeding the trolls they are, the equivalent of filet mignon.

“Off –topic should go elsewhere”
Screams part of the hoard
“But,” groans the admin,
“It’s an off-topic board!”

And the admin stare dumfounded
And put their head down a bit
“Don’t these guys realize
We don’t get paid for this sh!t?”

As for this boy from Texas
Does he have any advice?
Well yeah, ya durn fools!
Just try to be nice!

Don’t like a topic?
Don’t check out that note
There’s plenty to read
That won’t get your goat

Ticked off ‘bout that guy?
Gonna give him what-for?
Calm yourself a moment
There’s no need to roar.

I’ll leave you with this
‘Cause right now I’m fried

Happy New year to all
Now SHUT UP AND RIDE!"

[Tazturtle]

Lots more pics of the Ipothesys on this Italian language site:

http://www.motoblog.it/post/34993/due-chiacchiere-con-officine-rossopuro

Enjoy. Or wail and gnash your teeth. Whatever floats your respective boat!

[misterg]

I spend a significant portion of my life beating of Brazilian supermodels, (Sigh!) What a chore!!!! ;) :D :D :D

Now, let me get this straight, is that:

--spending time on the beating of Brazilian supermodels?

or

--spending time beating off 2 Brazilian supermodels?    ~;

Sorry, I suppose that's a bit blue for this forum, Admins delete away, if necessary, but I couldn't resist...   ;D

[rocker59]

Which ones are girls?  I'm only asking because it looks more like a couples moment from the rocky horror picture show.

Ha!  You said it, Buckwheat!   :D

[Crusty]

Hey Strom; Can I steal that and put it on another forum?

[Strom]

Hey Strom; Can I steal that and put it on another forum?

I guess so... just put the author in there (Daniel Meyer - not me).  ;D

[Luxexterior]

As a piece of art its fantastic. Not sure I'd want to own one. Although if anybody has one they'd like to lend me. ;D

[Baldini]

Lots more pics of the Ipothesys on this Italian language site:

http://www.motoblog.it/post/34993/due-chiacchiere-con-officine-rossopuro

Enjoy. Or wail and gnash your teeth. Whatever floats your respective boat!

Tazturtle,

Thanks for posting. Where did the high def pix in your original post come from? I don't see it on the Rossopuro site.

Thanks,

KB

[Paul in NZ]

One of the ‘problems’ with these ‘conceptual’ designs is that their purpose is to challenge they way we think of an object.  While that’s fine for something like a tablet PC or other consumable it gets a bit tricky when it’s a large lump of expensive mechanical art.  No matter how much we consider ourselves risk takers and mould breakers we quietly realise that one day we are going to have to rock up and trade that puppy in (or sell it on) and our inner brain is quietly saying – ‘It will devalue like a stone and cost you everything you have’.

Of course it ‘may’ become a highly desirable collectable at some future date but even then it’s a case of ‘eventually’ becoming one – first guy to trade one in takes a bath!

Most motorcyclists are archly conservative and tend to buy derivatives of stuff they recognise and that share common values with other similar items owned by their friends.

It’s a nicely built bike that looks like it could run well but even accepting the statements above it still does not turn my crank at all….. 

[Tazturtle]

Tazturtle,

Thanks for posting. Where did the high def pix in your original post come from? I don't see it on the Rossopuro site.

Thanks,

KB

I think they were from Corsa Italiana on Facebook.

Cheers

Kurt

[Baldini]

Kurt, Thanks for that, I'll take a look. KB

[BigRooster]

Well, no matter your opinion on this example, at least it is a much better attempt than the Victory Ness-Cafe.
http://www.motorcycledaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/012312top-i.jpg

I saw it on The KneeSlider today.  I like lots of the little detail bits.  Overall its photographs well but those pipes would be difficult to live with...for anyone within a mile.

[Travman]

More press for the Moto Guzzi Griso “Ipothesys”.  It was just featured on Bikeexif.com
http://www.bikeexif.com/griso-custom



The bike has it's own website now.  They are trying to make it into a new motorcycle brand.
http://www.ipothesys.it/pag/home.asp

[Tazturtle]

I noticed it was getting a second run of publicity. Been on Facebook again too. I'd love to have a ride of one  ;-T

[Murray]

I remeber it discussed in another thread a while ago and wrote it off as another design students wet dream, Pete probably quiet right wrote it off as a poorly though out pice of munt. Despite all this is actually exists. http://www.bikeexif.com/griso-custom

[krglorioso]

Uh, I think I like the Harley-ized Stone better.

Ralph

[Murray]

http://www.ipothesys.it/pag/home.asp

[jderienzo]

THAT is what I would do for a custom exhaust.  Screw $500 for a slip on...$25 for a saws-all will expose the single-sided swing arm, give a free-flow exhaust, and give an ever so slight increase in exhaust-note tone...

[Murray]

$25 for a saws-all will expose the single-sided swing arm, give a free-flow exhaust, and give an ever so slight increase in exhaust-note tone...

After your ears stop bleeding you'd hardly notice!

I'm thinking there is some kind of baffle system in the setup somewhere.

[jderienzo]

After your ears stop bleeding you'd hardly notice!

I'm thinking there is some kind of baffle system in the setup somewhere.

It wouldn't be my ears bleeding...I always wear a helmet and earplugs  ;D

[Turin]

I'd have one in a hearbeat!

[guzzler]

I reckon it looks really good from the front/side view of the first shot,but bloody crap from the other angles!
That fairing on a standard Griso would probably look good though.
Cheers Guzzler.

[Kentktk]

Seems to be very well done.



http://www.returnofthecaferacers.com/2012/03/moto-guzzi-griso-8v-ipothesys.html