Check this out!

Ultralight motorcycle (http://www.apriliaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=135255)


I want one!

That is insane!!! :rock

Nice find Shawn!! :thumbup

beyond sweet!

Interesting. Nice find.


Ride safe.

very nice. i think this is the first time i have ever seen something positive come out of college haha

very nice. i think this is the first time i have ever seen something positive come out of college haha

odds are the guy that designed your bike and car and house went to college, keeps it from falling in on you haha

most of the thesis ive seen were senseless babble haha

Looks like an over grown MTB :cool

most of the thesis ive seen were senseless babble haha

without 'em we'd be in caves yet.

it wouldnt be so bad if you werent forced to take classes that have absolutly nothing to do with your field of study.

it sucks, but I've learned the hard way not to ask "when the hell am I ever gonna use this" because sooner or later there will be a place.

Interesting story about the developement of the 747 and "stupid" thesis projects.

there's a guy working on a thesis of creating a mathematical definition of how a bubble will form out of an irregularly shaped opening based on air pressure differential and surface tension, aswell as the shape of the opening. After years of work, he gives up and lets it be a failed thesis, never gets his doctorate. The math was too complex to figure out.

Meanwhile, somebody else is working on mathematical equations to solve for the fatigue strength of irregularly shaped aluminum based on the moment of force being applied on it and the yield strength of the aluminum. Also couldn't really definite it well at the time, as the maths where too complex.

A 3rd guy however, knows both of these guys, has a look at both of their math and realize that it's the same equations in both cases, some experimentation takes place to determine the "conversion" ratio between surface tension and yield strength, and experimentation with controlled bubbles being formed from the shapes of the extrusions is used to calculate the service life of structural components in a 747.

And all 'cause some hairbrain hippy wanted a mathematical formulae to define how bubbles form being passed thru strangely shaped holes.

very nice, but again if it had ANYTHING to do with my field of study ok. i hate the whole process because what do i care about that type of math. i am not nor will i ever be an engineer.

well who'd have thought that an engineer would ever care about bubble formation right?

sometimes the damnedest things turn up as necessary, or atleast usefull.

Wow!!! :cool

I hadn't been of the Aprilia forum in ages :workout

Pretty :cool

:cool


That looks like fun.. Too bad you couldn't take that on bike trails