Vultus rider backrest (& pillion seat!)
This photo shows that the rider backrest of the Vultus has several centimetres of adjustment fore & aft. What it doesn't show is that the backrest also has several different angle settings, including completely horizontal in order to provide a seat pad for a high-placed passenger. For some strange reason, the ignition key is required to change the angle of the seat. This is particularly annoying when the seat decides to spontaneously re-set its angle as you ride over a bump, thereby requiring a stop in order to extract the ignition key from the ignition slot, put it in the seat back, re-set the seat back angle, put the key back in the ignition switch and continue on your way! Absolutely Infuriating. PNB.
Photo: Honda
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Amazing technology tour de force by honad there... A moveable seat back, awesome.
Why do you think they put it on a motorcycle?
Honda not so stupid after all, shock.
RC said, in 2014: "A moveable seat back, awesome. Why do you think they put it on a motorcycle?"
PNB: Perhaps because they'd grasped the fact that, "Otherwise [the rider's] arms will start to ache real soon!" to quote what RC said in 2016, elsewhere in this Vultus gallery, having forgotten what he'd seen and said way back in the dim and distant year of 2014!
Sarcasm lost..
My original comment was entirely sarcastic, the level of wit being adjusted to match Honads level of technical understanding.
More pertinately I invite Honad, potential customers and their lawyers to consider the likely result of being rear-ended while using this seatback. Full length seatbacks and head restraints, as universally used on all other vehicles with seat backs - inclusing my FF designs - are not a styling feature.
I've been rear-ended on a motorcycle, while stationary, it just got spat out from between my legs. If I'd been on a Vulva I'd be in a wheelchair, at best. But don't mind me, I'm not carrying that liability - or a honad shareholder...
However I'm glad that my queries about this Honad product are being addressed and look forward to further reports of a comparison with similar, but FF, designs. JB's BSA for instance. Then there's weather protection, sidewind performance, Why are you bothering with this thing anyway, and so on.
Gurney Alligators & Banana also lacking in seat back dept?
Presumably you'd make the same criticism of the Gurney Alligators, which have even less seat back than the Vultus. As seen here: http://www.bikeweb.com/node/2418
And actually, the Flying Banana's seat back wasn't significantly bigger than the Vultus's either, when it was first built and for the following decade: http://www.bikeweb.com/node/959
Would you care to give us a reference to the relevant research? (That is not a sarcastic comment, I am genuinely interested and clearly, head restraints weren't fitted to car seats just for looks or fun.) PNB