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Building: Locost Fireblade BUILT - now sold :(
posted on 17/4/12 at 09:04 PM
The point isn't that people want a "bike engine" nessisarily, its that they want a very light, very powerful, very intense driving
experience and a sequential box - no CEC offers that as a package for anywhere near the value a bike engine can.
Yes it can be matched, and beaten by CEC's, but they are in another league cost wise, and so out of the reach of most locostbuilders.
quote:Originally posted by Dangle_kt
The point isn't that people want a "bike engine" nessisarily, its that they want a very light, very powerful, very intense driving
experience and a sequential box - no CEC offers that as a package for anywhere near the value a bike engine can.
Yes it can be matched, and beaten by CEC's, but they are in another league cost wise, and so out of the reach of most locostbuilders.
Yes, I totally agree.
And with a bike engine, that's what they get.
Then after a short time, they realise that the driving experience they actually wanted was a teeny weeny bit less immersive than screaming banzai
maximum attack, for sure, full on, mentalist on speed, psycho nutte,r crystal meth vinegar in the eyeballs, kick to the nads, bonkers trip.
Personally my bec pulls away in third can be driven in 6th at 30mph is quiteish and goes like hell when I want and I change gear on full throttle by
pushing a button on the steering wheel, the car weighs 545 kg fully laden with petrol tools hood etc. Long live 1340cc Hayabusa engines.
Thats Almost 'not work safe' definatly engine porn
Taller than your average Guy !
Management is like a tree of monkeys. - Those at the top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. BUT Those at the bottom look up and see a
tree full of a*seholes .............
