In my 20s I had a Datsun 260Z that I was working on gradually and mostly incompetently while still using it, and it went through a phase where over the course of a summer I removed all the paint with Nitromors (it looked like it had been attacked by a swarm of locusts) and it also had 3 different types of wheel fitted. By September of that year, I was on first name terms with most of the police officers in north London and I was so sick of getting “producers” that I just kept all my docs in the car
I thought it was air-cooled at first due to what look like fins on the rear cylinder but I googled and it said it has a 1098 engine (and google is never wrong). Maybe there's more than one variant? EDIT: you can see on this photo what looks like a radiator* just kind of stuck in the belly pan. A bit like the rectifier glued to the engine case on the other side https://newatlas.com/the-vyrus-987-c3-4vv-the-worlds-most-powerful-production-motorcycle/13975/ It's hardly an elegant packaging solution. More like the sort of thing some bloke from Derby who has a Rottweiler on a piece of rope in his back garden would do with a Fireblade, and then send the photos in to Back Street Heroes hoping they'll drape a bored looking model over it and put it in the centrefold *EDIT 2: That radiator might actually be an intercooler as I just read that the bike is supercharged.
I like them, a lot, but....they do look a bit like someone has just pulled the fairings off a super bike and left it "as is"
I actually quite like the raw technology of it, but think what they could achieve with a set of winglets by the air tubes?
I quite like it, though it looks very unfinished and I imagine Vyrus design and ownership/management must the same person because can you imagine how the conversation would go if someone presented that as a render to someone else? “As you can see - the concept is all about transparency and the exposed plumbing was influenced by the Body Worlds human anatomy exhibitions....plus it will be cheaper to produce because we don’t have to work out how we hide all that messy stuff on a naked bike” (and having done half a dozen streetfighter projects myself, that problem is a monumental pain in the arse to solve). But overall, it’s in a similar but more extreme vein to the 999, which I also like.
A few pics from the NEC yesterday. I thought The unpainted Panigale R tank was very pleasing and the daft wings on the street fighter were much less flimsy than I expected, though I’m not getting the joker face.
