Kaneda's Bike from Akira?

[Guyver]

Kaneda's Bike from Akira?: This from a not-that-recent-but-still-fun article on Slashdot:

"News for nerds writes "At Tokyo Motorcycle Show in Japan (2/3/4 Apr.), the official licensed model of the motorcycle in the anime movie Akira is displayed. This Kaneda bike is not a mere replica, but a full working model (more pics at ITmedia) with twin-steering system and 249-998cc water-cooled 4-cycle engine, and on its cockpit is DVD-navi-system + trackball & ten-key + custom computer-controlled LED meters - all licenced by the author and the publisher of Akira. Though at the show only miniature figures are sold and real price or release date is unclear, you can check out the manufacturer's website for later info."
http://www.neo-fukuoka.com/





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[Guyver]

<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ August 28, 2004 11:14 PM: Message edited by: Guyver ]</font>

[bonedust]

how can a bike have a 249-998cc motor? are they saying its an independently cranked 3 cylinder? and you can use 1, 2, or 3 cylinders???? cause that would be the biggest news in motorcyclinging since the single sided swingarm.


also, kawasaki made a working replica of that bike in conjunction with the boxedset release back a few years. they mangled up a zx-9. it was cool, but the test rider said that it was a death trap

[Leegeta]

Wow, that is so freakin cool

[Guyver]

Originally posted by bonedust:
how can a bike have a 249-998cc motor? are they saying its an independently cranked 3 cylinder? and you can use 1, 2, or 3 cylinders???? cause that would be the biggest news in motorcyclinging since the single sided swingarm.


also, kawasaki made a working replica of that bike in conjunction with the boxedset release back a few years. they mangled up a zx-9. it was cool, but the test rider said that it was a death trap

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">If I could read Japanese I could tell ya. but I dont so...... [img]frown.gif[/img]

[bonedust]

thats supposed to be readable! i thought it was just really tiny funny drawings!

[Guitardeth2]

I seen that awhile back, very cool!!

[Moviemaniac4]

Here comes the movie [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Have any of you seen a tetsuo figure arround ? Don't even care if package is not mint .......



<font color="#cd6600" size="1">[ August 29, 2004 10:01 AM: Message edited by: Moviemaniac4 ]</font>

[DARTH POOH]

That's pretty hot!
MM$ it's too bad I didn't know you better a while back. They used to have Tetsuo figures warmin' the pegs around here for years.

[Moviemaniac4]

Originally posted by DARTH POOH:
That's pretty hot!
MM$ it's too bad I didn't know you better a while back. They used to have Tetsuo figures warmin' the pegs around here for years.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">[img]frown.gif[/img] That's ok pal...