Honda looking to enter the EMTB market with a concept

[Zimmerframe]

A couple of weeks ago we had Yamaha's EMTB concept :

Yamaha Y-00Z Concept Bike

Saw this a while back but keep forgetting to post about it. Following on from @knut7's Yamaha Moro-07 article, which showed a bit of an unexciting and dated bike : https://www.emtbforums.com/ams/yamaha-moro-07-introduction-test-ride.70/ It seems there's still someone at Yamaha who represents...

www.emtbforums.com

Now Honda's.

Honda aren't new to MTB. In 2006 Greg Minnaar raced the RN01

Using a thin walled cast aluminium frame (like many of their motorcycles) is has a different style to many of the mainstream bikes were used to seeing. The swingarm is also cast similarly to Yamaha's bike.

Powered by the Brose Mag S in it's concept form the bike also gets Shimano brakes, SRAM Eagle drivetrain and a Rockshox Reverb AXS post, DT Swiss XM 1700 wheels and Maxis Minon DHR II tyres and a Fox Float X - but you can see most of that from the picture ...

Cables are routed semi-traditionally :

There also seems to be a mobile charge station, or it could be a beer chiller which is powered by the bike. I'm not sure either option really makes sense. Neither does the location of the charge port.

The bike is being positively considered for production !!

 

[RustyMTB]

It's not what you'd call a looker eh? Like an Intense M1 met Arnie & decided to hit the gym.

 

[Zimmerframe]

It's not what you'd call a looker eh? Like an Intense M1 met Arnie & decided to hit the gym.

Maybe you're just not a side on kind of guy ??

 

[Zimmerframe]

There's a funky little scooter if that's more you're bag ?? looks like the foot pegs fold down to be the stand which is neat.

Next you'll be saying that this doesn't have style and remind you of Bugatti Type 57 S/SC Atlantic Coupé

 

[RustyMTB]

Now you're just trolling me. Next you'll be trying to persuade me a Focus Jam2 is a decent ride.

 

[Zimmerframe]

Now you're just trolling me. Next you'll be trying to persuade me a Focus Jam2 is a decent ride.

I've got bigger problems. Someone broke into my house last night and put all my clockwork clocks one hour forwards !!! ....... They obviously weren't very tech savvy as they didn't touch any of the digital ones !

 

[RustyMTB]

There should be a support group for people who can't find the manual for their ovens this weekend. And probably one for people who buy that Honda too.

 

[Zimmerframe]

You'd think they'd have cunningly incorporated some nice tool storage in there, but there's nothing obvious. I guess the "Carry handle" in the monocoque frame is there because there's nowhere easy to grab when man handling the bike about.

The more I look at it, the bike powered beer cooler makes sense as an overly developed solution to the water bottle problem. It's obviously a chiller and pump unit and the cable is really a pipe and the bike runs an internal fluid reservoir. Having the charge port where it is makes more sense as it's actually a tube attachment and would enable easy draining - though I'm sure the R2D2 cooler unit also has a purge and clean cycle built into it.

 

[Mabman]

That is one ugly bike. Using a Brose motor is a cop out as if Honda engineers couldn't come up with their own. Guess you could say I'm not impressed.......

 

[Streddaz]

A couple of weeks ago we had Yamaha's EMTB concept :

Yamaha Y-00Z Concept Bike

Saw this a while back but keep forgetting to post about it. Following on from @knut7's Yamaha Moro-07 article, which showed a bit of an unexciting and dated bike : https://www.emtbforums.com/ams/yamaha-moro-07-introduction-test-ride.70/ It seems there's still someone at Yamaha who represents...

www.emtbforums.com

Now Honda's.

Honda aren't new to MTB. In 2006 Greg Minnaar raced the RN01

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Using a thin walled cast aluminium frame (like many of their motorcycles) is has a different style to many of the mainstream bikes were used to seeing. The swingarm is also cast similarly to Yamaha's bike.

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Powered by the Brose Mag S in it's concept form the bike also gets Shimano brakes, SRAM Eagle drivetrain and a Rockshox Reverb AXS post, DT Swiss XM 1700 wheels and Maxis Minon DHR II tyres and a Fox Float X - but you can see most of that from the picture ...

Cables are routed semi-traditionally :

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There also seems to be a mobile charge station, or it could be a beer chiller which is powered by the bike. I'm not sure either option really makes sense. Neither does the location of the charge port.

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The bike is being positively considered for production !!

Like Yamaha the motorcycle brands don't seem to get that you would want a drink bottle holder. Surely all that frame space isn't a battery?

 

[irie]

April fool must be a different date in Japan

 

[B1rdie]

I’m looking for the best ebike ever, so will keep waiting for lamborghini to release their version.

 

[Streddaz]

I’m looking for the best ebike ever, so will keep waiting for lamborghini to release their version.

They have already gone there....

 

[kombos]

They have already gone there....

Ugh!