Oh my, oh my oh my ....

[unixronin]

MCN just ran a sneakpeek story breaking the news on Honda's upcoming-for-2006 VFR1200XX.  190HP V5 based on the RC211V, traction control, ABS, linked braking, and who knows what else.  And decent two-up accomodations into the deal.  (Sure, the "Uncrashable?" headline is pure copywriter BS -- the bike hasn't been built yet that some retard can't wad, and probably never will.)

You may drool now.  But ration your drool carefully.  We won't be seeing it in showrooms until 2006.

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[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

*Electronic* steering?? Ummmmmmno. Don't care if it is just a damper. Fly-by-wire has no biz on a cycle yet.

I have noticed that they've started putting something vaguely resembling highway bars on sport bikes. It's about damn time. That's been my big problem with sport bikes for forever now, is that there hasn't been anything to keep your legs from getting mangled if you drop the bike... a topic you know far far far too much about.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Electronic steering damper. I'll bet it's an electronically-controlled speed-sensitive steering damper -- magnetorheological, possibly. It sounds like a good way to get the best of both worlds of having and not having a steering damper, and let's face it -- there's enough electronics on amy modern bike anyway that you're already dead in the water if you lose the electronics.