Motorcycle Ideas

[Weaver]

Just bought the Katana kit, so girl-on-a-jet-bike is on at some point.

Raises some interesting issues about the interface of the girl and the bike. The seat's a bit wider than whatever bike she'd intended for: she can sit flat on it, but only by having her lean back, which raises issues about balance if she's supporting it (her feet arn't under her or the bike's C of G any more) and leaves her left hand floating in space (it won't drop neatly down onto her thigh, unfortunately). However, if you look at the photos I posted, she isn't sitting flat on the seats of those bikes either, rather she's leaning on the back of the tank as if just lifting he weight off the seat.

The thing is, if the bike was real, then she probably would sit down onto it properly in the leant-forwards stance, because the seat would be soft and would be squashed between her thighs (steady now lads....) whereas the kit one, is, of course, rigid..... hmmmmm.

[GTX]

because the seat would be soft and would be squashed between her thighs (steady now lads....) whereas the kit one, is, of course, rigid..... hmmmmm.

I'm not touching that one...too easy!

[ChernayaAkula]

I think the idea was to have her lean back, with her left hand on the bike's tank. According to the box of  Legend's original, she was made for a Tamiya's Yamaha YZF-R1, so I reckon she'll fit that one best. I bought one of those figures for Tamiya's Honda CBR-1100XX, but she won't fit the seat easily. The same goes for Maisto's die-cast Yamaha R1. The fit on a Maisto Suzuki GSX-R 750 is much better. Her left hand just touches the bike's tank. Her feet, however, are still way up in the air (even though she has pretty long legs...). On a hoverbike, that shouldn't be too much of a problem, though. 

Found these pics of her on a Tamiya YZF-R1 >>HERE<< on Scale Plasic Cars:
Pics as links only, as they may NOT be safe for work to some.

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Two more pics from same thread from another modeller:

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[Weaver]

Nice one - I've registered there now!  

Modern sports bikes have almost triangular seats so that's probably why she sits well on them and not so well on touring or older models. For all it's futuristic looks, the Katana was basically an early '80s UJM in fancy clothes, and it's seat was still pretty big by modern standards.

The problem for the jet bike idea is not whether she touches the floor (she'll be the only bit that does!) but whether she can hold it up or not: even with both feet down, her contact point with the floor is pretty tiny to take a big weight if it isn't balanced right. Thinking about it some more, leaning back might actually help. Being resin, she's pretty heavy so if her weight is behind her feet and most of the bike's weight is in front of them, then it might all balance out.

[rickshaw]

Perhaps a long, metal rod inside her leg from the base to hold her and the bike steady?

[Weaver]

Perhaps a long, metal rod inside her leg from the base to hold her and the bike steady?

Pretty much a given anyway, because the foot of her non-separate calf was snapped off when she arrived  . Bit tricky though, because there's not much area in the sole of her shoes and not much meat on her ankles: one wrong move and she'll look more like an extra from a sci-fi version of Crash than Girl on a Motorcycle......

I'm toying with the idea of giving her some chunkier boots (rolled Milliput) to get around this, and there's another possibility too: her stillettos are separate, very fragile pieces so IF they were on the ground, they could be replaced by steel pins with Milliput around them.

[rickshaw]

Mmm, difficult.  Having just reacquainted myself with the young lady's picture, I think what I'd do would be cut a slot up the inside of her calf and thigh, use a piece of heavy duty wire and bend it at right angles at the top into the bike and hang the bike off that.  I'd then use Milliput to repair the slot, covering the wire.  She wouldn't be supporting the bike and the armature would be supporting her and and the bike.  Bit of judicious painting with black at her ankle and the wire would essentially be invisible.

[Weaver]

Just realised something else: I thought the right calf was supposed to be separate, but looking at it again, I realise that it's snapped too, only the stress pattern of the fracture just happens to look like a shallow locating peg.....

[KJ_Lesnick]

Regarding the Tron Light-Cycle (2009)

1: Is it possible to design a wheel that is hubless and could turn in a manner to allow satisfactory turning whilst maintaining the basic shape of the Tron-Bike?

2: Why were replicas of the Tron light-cycle not built with that back-brace over the top of them?

[tahsin]

I had this from a link   and don't have the slightest idea what it is, maybe except it is somesort of a bike...

[Rheged]

I had this from a link  and don't have the slightest idea what it is, maybe except it is somesort of a bike...

I too have no idea at all what it is, other than probably Russian and very uncomfortable................. even more so if/when  the mighty piece of ordnance is discharged!!!

[perttime]

It has a Soviet look ... but the sidecar is on the wrong side

The wheels in the back surely belong to the gun. But what is the gun? It doesn't look like any ordinary machinegun and it seems too short to be an anti-tank rifle.

Of course, it might not be a gun at all.

[CANSO]

As per this site it's an antitank gun (ChK-37). The motorcycle was used for transportation only! The small wheels are to move it on the ground (in the same way as the Maxim - machine gun in the Red Army).

I think the photo is flipped though, but who knows...
And here the same gun on a jeep:

[rickshaw]

I think that was originally a tank gun.  Its use of a concentric recoil buffer is interested.  I wasn't aware that the Russians went in for such things.  Looks quite small calibre 37-45mm perhaps?