The content introduces the "Feet Forward," a revolutionary personal transport vehicle that redefines the motorcycle paradigm by shifting from a straddled seating position to a reclined, enclosed design, addressing limitations in acceleration, braking, aerodynamics, and rider safety.
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finally news of a revolutionary form of
transport that has just started coming
off the production line it's not quite a
motorbike and it's not quite a sports
what it is is an armchair
and a slippery fish
and a road train [Music]
they call it a feet forward
as an idea it predates jeremy clarkson
and post-dates man's invention of the shed
shed
27 home builds and three mayfly
production runs have culminated in one
universal response [Music]
that technically is the correct way to
wow suddenly
suddenly
the world i used to know i see it differently
differently [Music]
[Music]
in 1818 people straddled horses
gross in 1819 carl dries connected two
wheels with a raised frame so people
could straddle his dandy horse in 1867
sylvester roper put an engine in one it
was faster than any horse so he
straddled it until he died
that's how paradigms work we take an
arbitrary model and progress within it
motorcycles got more comfortable
more faster
but they're still horses with wheels [Music]
what if a motorcycle wasn't something
you sat on but something you sat in
in
and that could solve a few
anomalies a few cracks in the paradigm
of the straddled motorcycle [Music]
it's 2022 and motorcycles can't
accelerate any faster without flipping
over nor can they break any harder
without flipping over
this dead end to advancement is us
smacking into the glass walls of our paradigm
paradigm
see modern rubber can accelerate at 2
times gravity but earth only gives us 1g
downward so trigonometry says any center
of mass higher than 15 inches will flip
over backwards
to accelerate at full potential we need
an abnormally low motorcycle
if the future is greener on the electric
side then wind resistance is the fence
sneak under a 0.3 coefficient of
aerodynamic drag to stretch 500
kilometers on a charge
but motorcycles have an arrow factor of 0.4
0.4
your main mast drags range below 200. not
not far
far enough
enough
but remember that horseless carriages
were also crap it wasn't until motor
cars reinvented the paradigm that the
automobile made sense
shouldn't electric drive merit similar rethinking
rethinking
low and enclosed a drag coefficient of
0.19 for 400 kilometer range is trivial
this electron pulls as hard at 70 as it
does from a standstill i'm not wasting
any power fighting the wind
i have the frontal area of a lawn dart [Music]
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1970s quasars ran on old reliant robin
engines and could hit 180 kilometers an hour
hour
dan gurney's alligator made 230 from a
single xr 650 motor
it's possible to achieve range without
battery and speed without power you just
need brilliant aerodynamics you need an anomaly
six inches from the ground wow
wow [Music]
highway pegs inflatable seat bar
bar
all frills for what is testily speaking
a pommel horse
whereas a recliner requires no core
gore-tex jacket heated grips
smart helmet
all unnecessary in the bubble and i've
seen feet forwards with heaters air
conditioners voice commands and always trunks
you gotta fill the aerodynamic rear
vacuum anyway so an anomalously fat
booty designs itself [Music]
straddled motorcycles are inescapably
ejector seats so putting airbags on
bikes doesn't work great and putting
airbags on riders is like putting life
jackets on cannonballs
why not have seat belts
why not keep the rider in an engineered cocoon
cocoon
so crashes cost nothing more than a
because that means one final anomaly the
seating position that is unthinkably
weird in the way one paradigm always
looks from another i don't like it but i
don't have to
the feet forward position implores itself
itself [Music]
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