>>>>>>>> The majority of the patents are associated with the bike's front end. Hub-centred steering has of course been tried before on bikes - but never with much success. Yamaha's GTS1000 and Bimota's Tesi both gave it a go. >>>>>>>>
Jeese, you'd think the bike crashed & burned.... production ran for seven years on the GTS - hardly a failure, no? I would expect such a statement from a US mag, where the bike only lasted two years, but not a Euro mag. -Thomas =========================== Thomas H. Keyworth http://www.keyworth.net http://www.district37ama.org http://www.wallyscycleworld.com =========================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Hammond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 6:00 AM Subject: Re: Mystery or not???????? > mototune wrote: > > > Greetings folks. This may be something interesting??? Or not???? I'm sure curious, maybe some (or all)on the list will be cirious also. Who knows? Maybe someone even knows the answer to the mystery? Eh!! Maybe not? Ok! Ok! Enough, the suspense is killing me too. I've had a couple, yes, that's a couple of reports of a 'NEW" for 2002 motorcycle which is claimed to have a front end similar to our GTS's. It's also rumored to be a sports tourer complete with luggage & all the creature comforts. I couldn't get any other info than that, but considering that here in Canada we don't really get much of the available variety of models or makes of motorcycles that are out there , it could be just rumors????? If any one has anything on this , I sure would like to know. Thanks. Be good. Seaon's greetings. Peter Piazza. P.S. The 'fluff' stuff is cool by me. Let's try to keep in mind that the GTS is a ''fluff mobile''. I love my ''fluff mobile''. With a ''fluff mobile'' comes ''FLUFF''. By the way , what's up with the 'CAPS' ? You know who you are. > > What about the whole email....all...in...one...line...... ;-) > No mention of a touring model, but what about this one; > http://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/detail?sectionID=50677&documentID=116109&; > Cheers, > Rick
