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High-Speed Motorcycle With a Tunnel Through It, Designed by Scanning Rider in Extreme Crouched Position

UK-based White Motorcycle Concepts is developing an electric prototype, the WMC250EV, that’s been designed in an unusual way: Company founder and CEO Rob White was laser-scanned while adopting an extreme racing crouch position, and then the bike was designed around his body.

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White’s goal was extreme aerodynamic efficiency, and thus the bike has a tunnel that runs through it from front to back.

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They say that the bike’s sculpting has yielded an unheard-of drag coefficient of 0.118. White also reckons that the two-wheel-drive bike, which is powered by four electric motors, will be able to reach speeds of around 400 km/h (249 mph).

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The intro video is interesting, but unfortunately it was edited as if they were hoping to induce seizures in the viewership:

White is patenting the design, and plans to take it to Bolivia next year to break electric land speed records.


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https://www.core77.com/posts/109434/High-Speed-Motorcycle-With-a-Tunnel-Through-It-Designed-by-Scanning-Rider-in-Extreme-Crouched-Position