2022 all new ghost model

[PMK]

To lighten up the mood, some may remember this Ghost Motorcycle

 

[Peteoz]

Yeah, exactly the same for me, Monk. Removed the trunk, too.... it handled very well, but I believe the Niken felt even more stable.

Pete

 

[Peteoz]

Here we go.....leaning Ryker conversion.....only a prototype though....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ohGvH...74X_aWk0lypE_G7Ha-KhbfNSJfsGLfPgb-AvCwcqcDmOg

Pete

 

[Peteoz]

:roflblack:Thats it I'm in! Just need to yellow up for my trip to the bedroom.Thanks Pete:thumbup:

Please DO NOT post photos, Cobwebs

Pete

 

[Cobwebs]

Here we go.....leaning Ryker conversion.....only a prototype though....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ohGvH...74X_aWk0lypE_G7Ha-KhbfNSJfsGLfPgb-AvCwcqcDmOg

Pete

:clap:Yeah that's getting there, bodywork needs refining but a couple of weeks and more info coming.
Question, wth:dontknow: motorcycle tyres on Ryker rims how does that work??

 

[AVBIZ]

:clap:Yeah that's getting there, bodywork needs refining but a couple of weeks and more info coming.
Question, wth:dontknow: motorcycle tyres on Ryker rims how does that work??

Will be interesting to learn what the cost is- conversion means you are buying a Ryker Rally @ ($12k out the door ?) then paying an additional ($10k -guess?) for the conversion? That would make for an expensive bare bones Ryker. Upside to starting with the Ryker is the younger demographic; they are more adaptive to change.

 

[Peter Aawen]

:clap:Yeah that's getting there, bodywork needs refining but a couple of weeks and more info coming.
Question, wth:dontknow: motorcycle tyres on Ryker rims how does that work??

It doesn't!! (Well, not really anyhow.... )

Motorcycle tires have different bead profiles than car tires & therefore (technically & legally, at least in our country, altho I strongly suspect all the North American members here have the same basic requirements. ) they NEED to be fitted onto motorcycle rims that are built to accept & properly secure motorcycle tire beads!! :lecturef_smilie: However, in saying that, there are MANY people out there who've 'gone to the dark-side' by fitting car tires onto their motorcycle rims.... and most who've done this have a pretty large degree of success! :shocked: BUT, by fitting motorcycle tires onto a Ryker rim, you'd actually be fitting a motorcycle bead profile onto a car rim that's designed to accept car bead profiles, with less lateral security for the bead, so there's a fairly good chance of some 'incompatibility' & a large-ish potential for losing the tire under hard cornering stresses!! :yikes:

For those who don't yet understand how this differs from what we do when fitting car tires to our Spyders/Rykers, doing that 'going to the dark-side' thing on a motorcycle is nothing like it is on a Spyder/Ryker, because when fitting car tires to our machines, the rims are already CAR rims with CAR type bead profiles!! So for us, it really isn't 'going to the dark-side' at all - it's more akin to 'seeing and following the light!!' hyea:

 

[BajaRon]

Here we go.....leaning Ryker conversion.....only a prototype though....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ohGvH...74X_aWk0lypE_G7Ha-KhbfNSJfsGLfPgb-AvCwcqcDmOg

Pete

The only 'Lean' to this Ryker is in the front wheels. They have managed to incorporate all the negatives of 'Leaning', without any actual leaning and zero benefits. It simply looks weird going around corners. I can't see this ever going anywhere.

 

[Peteoz]

The only 'Lean' to this Ryker is in the front wheels. They have managed to incorporate all the negatives of 'Leaning', without any actual leaning and zero benefits. It simply looks weird going around corners. I can't see this ever going anywhere.

I agree completely, Ron......I can’t see that giving me any more enjoyment than the current Ryker or Spyder. :thumbup:

Pete

 

[Lamonster]

There is a leaning version of the Spyder and I hear tell it's a lot of fun to drive. Not sure if or when it will go into production but I do know it's for real.

 

[Cobwebs]

The only 'Lean' to this Ryker is in the front wheels. They have managed to incorporate all the negatives of 'Leaning', without any actual leaning and zero benefits. It simply looks weird going around corners. I can't see this ever going anywhere.

Not necessarily true the rear does lean if you watch closely it follows the fronts because it has to being connected to the axis of the bike.
:hun:I don't understand what you mean by negatives of leaning unless you mean your eyeballs are no longer level ???:shocked:
Costwise sure it probably won't be cheap but your talking one off limited numbers. Scale it up to a hot rod version from the factory with correct rims, tyres, shocks and nanny mods and you'd have something.hyea:
I'd love to see twenty of these things fighting it out on a track somewhere:firstplace: or even better more than the one I'd buy for outings on my local haunts.

 

[Kbaldwin]

I have Intel that I learned last summer that BRP is releasing a brand new spider model for next year!! there is a plastics company down here in Windsor Ontario that builds lots of plastic for Spyders and it’s an all new program called “ghost”!!! this could also be a 2023 model and it very well could be the camber tilting model we’ve all been waiting for!

You all will find out on Wednesday 8/11

 

[WisconsinDavid]

I saw somewhere that they were working on an electric Spyder as a concept ... not my cup of tea but maybe something in that engineering line of development?