SportBikes Inc Magazine February 2018

powertrain‌ It's also probably the motorcycle I would have built on my own if I weren't trying to tick some boxes for Keanu on that first motorcycle. And then the Method 143‌ We were always going to have one the three bikes in the line up that every year or every couple of years would be something really over the top. Something really pushing the idea of design and engineering. The 143 is the first motorcycle I'm aware of that has a carbon monocell chassis and not just the carbon chassis itself, but with the fuel tank and everything else combined into it completely. And then that motorcycle would always be a limited number run. Each time it will use a different kind of powertrain which to base it around. The 143 has a downdraft system that's not even the same as the one that we use in our other production motorcycles. And we're working on a different drivetrain package so the bike when it's done will be very, very unique and incorporate as much technology as possible. This idea of a concept motorcycle, but a production concept motorcycle that actually 20, in this case, 23 people will be able to own instead of there just being one that a manufacturer owns and nobody else can ever, ever have one. And then the technology that we use in those motorcycles and some of the design will trickle down into production stuff in the future.

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