Ha ha, she’s in Bali waiting for me. I am already 10 days late. The rear wheel is still away at BST, no idea when to expect it back but I quite like the contrast anyway. Opinions welcome!
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?
