Bob's 'Bananaskins' (GPz500, VT600&CN250)
Submitted by bobwreford on 9 May, 2008 - 8:47pm.
Bob's 'Bananaskins' (GPz500, VT600&CN250)
 This is my FF-factory Moto GP rider for 2009 - 20 kilograms out to knock Jorge Lorenzo off his perch. I think Jorge may have been on the Yamaha stand judging from the noisy crowds and the constant flash of cameras, but I knew where the real news was :)
Submitted by bobwreford on 9 May, 2008 - 8:44pm.
Bob's 'Bananaskins' (GPz500, VT600&CN250)
 One of several design clay models by a local studio - looks like it may be about to bite any pedestrian in front of it! Very professional - again nothing like the (awful) quality of my own musings.
Submitted by bobwreford on 9 May, 2008 - 8:38pm.
Bob's 'Bananaskins' (GPz500, VT600&CN250)
 This pic is for Michael Moore of eurospares in the USA - he loves these older bikes and with Montjuich Park just a short walk away from the show it was very appropriate.
Submitted by bobwreford on 9 May, 2008 - 8:36pm.
Bob's 'Bananaskins' (GPz500, VT600&CN250)
 Another brilliant BMW show innovation - you press the big red button and the recorded noise of that exhaust can on a dyno bellows out of the display, crowds flocked to the stand thinking that a real live motorbike was being revved to the max - Excellent!
Submitted by bobwreford on 9 May, 2008 - 8:34pm.
Bob's 'Bananaskins' (GPz500, VT600&CN250)
 This will be great at the NEC! No I cannot do stoppies but the young BMW lady obscured by my ample gut has hoisted me and the bike up hydraulically - will be very popular at the NEC this year!
Submitted by bobwreford on 9 May, 2008 - 8:23pm.
Bob's 'Bananaskins' (GPz500, VT600&CN250)
 We have often discussed anti squat geometry but this chap seems to have overlooked the need for the anti squat to be proportional to the rear thrust - see www.tracklever.com
Submitted by bobwreford on 9 May, 2008 - 8:17pm.
Bob's 'Bananaskins' (GPz500, VT600&CN250)
 One for Tony Foale's House of Horrors - a cast frame snapped in three pieces in a front end crash - exhausts flattened a bit and I have my doubts if these are the original forks.
But demonstrates the first thing to go in a thin cast frame. Does not bother the rider, he flew off on his own adventure over the bars.
Submitted by bobwreford on 9 May, 2008 - 8:12pm.
Bob's 'Bananaskins' (GPz500, VT600&CN250)
 This one is for Ernest - the auto DN 01 from Honda - No idea why they did not put the rear brake lever on the left bar, feels weird with no lever there at all. the bike answers a question nobody asked since it does nothing better than a big scooter.
Clearly based on my first VT600 Bananaskin but an auto not a manual :)_
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Lots of buttons to amuse the Gas Gas rider when he is not airborne over the bumps - Concentrate man!
You always expect to bump into Paul Blezard at these shows, I did not see him but thought he would love this bike, the Gas Gas Dakar.
And here is a rear view. Mmm, either you like roofed vehicles or you dont. Familiar name though....
Sorry, we don't have three wheelers on the FF list. Mmm, but this is the 'DIC' - surely the most significant marketing name in 2008?
This one is for Dominic as he likes rat bikes.
I propose to donate one of these to every amateur bike frame builder right after my lottery win. There may be some considerable delay....
To give the chap his due, this is far neater than anything I ever made.
The latest Honda uses ECO principles to assist the nervous rider.....
We have often discussed the necessity for adequate size in a topbox and here a model shows how the box must be in proportion to the rider......
Nice and low and comfortable, a much bigger screen would be nice, and not difficult to make.
It is Olde Bobbe sat on a DN 01 Honda - looks better with someone sat on it!
Cramped in here but can just see the instruments
