Saturday, December 16, 2006

Motorcycle Fold Down Canard System

Often when I use to race motorcycle street bikes I found myself feeling more like I was strapping on a fighter plan as I suited up and started the motor and watched it come alive, knowing full well that what I did in the next hour would determine if I would live or die that day.

The adrenaline rush was well you know, excellent and indeed worthy of mention and yes like most hard core street racer motorcycle riders, I understood the movie Top Gun more than most as I am one with the saying; The Need for Speed.

Sometimes I felt I was going so fast it seemed like I was flying as the ground went by under my knee scraping anything that was even close and yet that got me thinking, what if we could build a motorcycle that could fly, lets say wings that used the exhaust to inflate and a system for elevator control? Perhaps a canard in front to help steer too.

How would that be possible? Well consider how strong the front axle is and the forks. A canard system could fold down and become the elevator-horizontal stabilizer and canard system and it could be controlled by levers on the handlebars like the shift levers on bicycle racing bikes. Then you could have the control in the air that you have on the ground? Well anyway that is how I would design it.