What's the most beautiful autobike you've ever seen?

lets hope so.

Meanwhile, in real life

Autobike? As in it will shift up and down as needed for you? This exists?
Not trolling, I dont know jack shit about motorcycles Veeky Forums enlighten me, please.

Autobike is what the Japs call motorcycles.

Because of the prevalence of Jap bikes in the market, more and more people are calling them autobikes despite the fact autobike means something else in English

goddammit, thats just dumb.

Its like the chinese calling a computer an "electric brain"... ridiculous.

cars are called automobiles.
you don't call cars motormobiles?

Would help if I uploaded the pic

Honda makes a few DCT bikes, Aprilia makes a 850cc CVT motorcycle and there's probably more that I don't know about.

This is the only correct answer.

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it looks better in person

Anything Shinya Kimura

the NC, VFRf and CRFl platforms could have been goat for futuristic concepts, but they ended up being shite

But the first motorcycles were bicycles with a *gasp* motor slapped into it. Hence a motorized bicycle, motorbicycle, motorcycle

either the honda cb1300 superfour or...

the suzuki vx800

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a ktm 690 smc, fooking aggresive, loud and obnoxious. first one i saw was my stepdads, he started it up; felt the rumble, watched the snow fall from surrounding trees then watched the exhaust change colour while melting the winter away.
the other is a SRAD 750 with the pillion cover and LED tailights.
these are GOD machines not these little frames with little engines, driven by hipsters to look cool.

Brittan. I got to ride one too.

You're a liar.
If you rode one, you'd have pics, if not, what are the details about how you rode one.

I worked at transport world in invers briefly. When I say ride it was down an isle inside the museum.

Agreed

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>not loving your own unconditionally

That price tho....

How did Motorcyles escape the lunacy that is the modern design?
Less to fuck up or less restricting regulations?

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1955 Norton Manx

did they?

>called a SuperSport
>is actually a sports tourer

Not even the best looking Duc

none of the new ones are

Have to agree
Somebody near where I live rides a yellow 999 (I think it's a 999S), and it's just so goddamn sexy

I do enjoy the 999

its that fusion of the old steel-tube frame look and the modern "Ferrari" esque with those holes in the rear cowl and pointy shapes i really like about that specific Ducati.

the 996 and 748 look nice too though.

I still can't get over the fact that Lanesplitters called this thing the "Akita Motorcycle"

Like, it looks cool, but it looks nothing like the Kaneda's bike

*Akira

My dad used to ride this bike and I was always so jealous.

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this ZX9R has such a nice combination of early 2000s design with 90s paint-job

>Cruiserfag

The old BSAs were always my favourite bikes aesthetically desu

Looks like hell on the groin

it even has a special grill

>sit on grill
>mesh sinks and frame edges dig into groin
for what purpose?

The "bikes" in akira are actually riced out giant scooters. Asians fucking love giant scooters.

I'm a car guy through and through but adventure bikes make me want to hop on the saddle and drive to the world's end and back

pic related, probably my all time favorite

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when fully assembled it does have about 1 cm of padding above that

how do you even stop

My first bike. Same fairing setup too. 86 FZ750, the feels.

Cool bike but it's a shame it's auto only.

Is the perspective just weird or does this thing actually have a mono-handlebar?

Looks straight out of Ridge Racer.

near the start and end there are clues that its not

Very slowly and with your knees gripping as tight as you can

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My first bike was a Chinese rip-off of this without the cowling and only 50cc.

>no honda
ishigittydiggitydon't

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>no honda
one's literally the post above

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100% serious. I want to buy and restore one purely on looks.

>dat popup

The Elites with the fixed headlights are also gorgeous. Two wheeled DeLoreans.

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One day...

I think I just peed a little bit

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just add machinegunner seat next to it

what am i looking at? seems like its 90% aftermarket stuff

Just looks like someone used used used copypaste a few too many times.

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that is incredible.

>Swiss chassis builder Egli have been crafting frames for over 100 years, but the Fritz W.1300– named after founding father Fritz Egli – is their first new bike for nearly 30 years. It features a Yamaha XJR1300 engine in an instantly recognisable steel frame with Öhlins suspension and Beringer brakes – and weighs some 32kg less than its standard engine donor.

why is the swingarm so big and ugly? this is what a proper one looks like.

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what makes that impressive? he didnt even use a trellis frame.

something like this but not hideous gray

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There is an importer in seattle who had two of them fresh from Japan with roughly 30,000 miles on them a piece. I wanted one so bad but could not justify the $7000 + price tag. I went with the crf1000l. One can still dream though.

I go back and forth to Asia and Africa a few times a year. I've seen them going for $2500-4500 USD depending on age and mileage. A part of me wants to buy one, strip it, ship it and deal with gray bike status over here.

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those are nice bikes, but not at all the best looking ducati

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