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Futuro - Concept airhead of 1980

Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:14 am
by Rob Frankham
Just picked up this very interesting album of Photos on Flickr. I'd heard of the 'Futuro' concept bike but never realised just how radical it was.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/bodaran/s ... 6214230313

Hopefully the link will work...

Rob

Re: Futuro - Concept airhead of 1980

Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:31 am
by barryh
Looks like the engine was a stressed member ?

Re: Futuro - Concept airhead of 1980

Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 6:39 am
by Kurt in S.A.

Re: Futuro - Concept airhead of 1980

Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 9:17 am
by melville
Kurt in S.A. wrote: Mon Mar 04, 2019 6:39 am YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcguEXcV2lM

Kurt in S.A.
Mad props for displaying it next to the R7!

Re: Futuro - Concept airhead of 1980

Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:12 pm
by Rob Frankham
Kurt in S.A. wrote: Mon Mar 04, 2019 6:39 am YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcguEXcV2lM

Kurt in S.A.
Nice find... I hadn't seen that one. It's interesting to note that the bike shown in the video doesn't appear to be the same one as that in the pictures (or it has been quite radically changed). The more I look, the more differences I spot... even the upper fairing shape is different. I wonder how many 'prototypes' were actually made.

Rob