A motorcycle for $110,000?

A $110,000 Motorcycle as Ugly as It Is Expensive

http://blog.wired.com/cars/images/20...aissance01.jpg

We know Confederate Motor Company can design sweet motorcycles because its first bike, the Wraith, is all kinds of awesome. But we've gotta wonder what the company's designer was smoking when he penned the new Renaissance Fighter and whether he'll share it with the people Neiman Marcus thinks will drop $110,000 to buy one.
The Renaissance takes the board-track racer aesthetic of the too-cool-for-words B91 Wraith and projects it well into the next century. The result is a bike that, although technically impressive, is as ugly as it is overpriced. That isn't keeping Neiman Marcus from offering the Renaissance in its Christmas Big Book, that annual repository of all things garish, gaudy and gauche.
What's sad is the Renaissance offers some amazing specs, including a 1,966 cc engine in an aluminum and titanium frame, a close-ratio 5-speed billet aluminum transmission and a four-piston front brake clamping down on a ceramic rotor. And, of course it's got that funky, but very effective, girder fork that Confederate is known for, and incorporating the LED headlights into the fork legs was a nice touch. The whole package weighs a very reasonable 430 pounds.


http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/10/confederate-mot.html

The first thought that popped in my head was "think how dirty your back is going to get driving this sucker". Unless the road is perfectly clean, you've GOT to have a fender on the back right?

Although I guess riding my bicycle it's not too bad. But have driven a motorcycle only a handful of times in my life, so not sure now. It is definitely not that sexy though.

it looks naked

poor thing needs some adornments

crazy looking bike. a bit over the top on the price but i have seen some who will spend over $4,000 for just a bicycle and you have to supply your own power. thats just as nuts. :roflol:

Interesting :nod:

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Originally Posted by Redpb

too-cool-for-words B91 Wraith...

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looks like this is just more of the same.