2015 Polaris Slingshot SL - Coolness Factor = 45.3%
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Complete and utter fail.
Morgan has been doing it longer, better, with more class and style for decades.
Morgan has been doing it longer, better, with more class and style for decades.
Always ask why.
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totalmotorcycle wrote:Hanson wrote:A
Mike
Always ask why.
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All the disadvantages of a car plus all the disadvantages of a bike, plus none of the benefits of either. Fail.
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Gotta agree with the rest. Government licensing as a motorcycle doesn't make it one. I mean, would you give 'the wave' to one of these as it passed?
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You bring up a lot of interesting points of discussion...zombiekatzu wrote:Gotta agree with the rest. Government licensing as a motorcycle doesn't make it one. I mean, would you give 'the wave' to one of these as it passed?
Would you (you being 3rd party) wave at:
1. Scooters?
2. Can-Am Spyders?
3. Trikes? (like the Harley-Davidson Tri-Glide)
4. Motorcycles with sidecars?
Just lumping them into the area of "might or might not" ... Could be quite interesting here.
Mike
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I wave at all of the above.
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yeah, I'd wave at all of those
totalmotorcycle wrote:You bring up a lot of interesting points of discussion...zombiekatzu wrote:Gotta agree with the rest. Government licensing as a motorcycle doesn't make it one. I mean, would you give 'the wave' to one of these as it passed?
Would you (you being 3rd party) wave at:
1. Scooters?
2. Can-Am Spyders?
3. Trikes? (like the Harley-Davidson Tri-Glide)
4. Motorcycles with sidecars?
Just lumping them into the area of "might or might not" ... Could be quite interesting here.
Mike
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As a motorcycle, it's a fail. Not a motorcycle.
As a vehicle it's kind of cool, though probably not very useful. And I agree with Ceemes, Morgan does this better.
As a vehicle it's kind of cool, though probably not very useful. And I agree with Ceemes, Morgan does this better.
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+1 what you said.JackoftheGreen wrote:Yeah...
I give the Spyder a lot of latitude, most of you know I've voted it either Cool or Awesome every time it's come up. But you sit ON a Spyder, and control it with bars, and some sort of hand throttle (I admit I've never learned the particulars of the Spyder), and it's got a saddle and bags and I just SEE a kind of motorcycle with the Spyder.
This thing is different. It's a roadster, plain and simple. SXS seating, steering wheel, stick -- or maybe a slap? -- shift and obviously pedal operated throttle, brake and clutch. The legal niche that allows the Spyder to be registered and insured like a motorcycle just shouldn't apply to this -- three wheeled or otherwise. So for that reason, this just has to be a Fail.
That said, as anything other than a motorcycle, this machine is absolutely CHERRY! It looks like Fun with a capital F, like Fun wearing a miniskirt and high heels. What an insane rush it must be to flog that beast through a canyon.
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Indeed!jstark47 wrote:As a motorcycle, it's a fail. Not a motorcycle.
As a vehicle it's kind of cool, though probably not very useful. And I agree with Ceemes, Morgan does this better.