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[unixronin]

It's called the Hyanide, because it allegedly looks like a crouching hyena¹.  Designed for the Michelin Challenge, its German designers say it can negotiate any terrain, no matter how rough or boggy.  Interesting concept, and a bold claim, but I'm not sure about the idea of using both hands and both feet to steer it ....

[1]  Personally I don't see the resemblance, at least from this photo, but, uh ... sure.  Whatever you say.  Maybe it's a German thing.

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[otherbill.livejournal.com]

I see the resemblance (the problem is, the photo shows it from the back). I think it looks like a blast, sort of a hybrid of a motorcycle and snowmobile.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

(the problem is, the photo shows it from the back)

Actually, I'm not so sure it does. If you look at the animation, that's the headlight above the visible end of the track facing us, with a control visible above the top of the forward fairing, and passenger/cargo grip/tiedown rails visible to the rear at the end away from us.

[otherbill.livejournal.com]

-blink-

Oh. Never mind what I said in the first comment, then.

If it *were* backward, though, and the rear tiedown rails were in fact the handlebars, then the big rear section does sort of look like a quadruped's haunches, as if it had its front down low and butt up in the air, poised to pounce.

It's a shame it'd be pouncing backwards. :-(

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

It might be easier to see in a direct side view. Hyenas are sort of big in the shoulders.

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

I sure looks like it would be fun to try out!

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

I bet I could get it stuck.

-Ogre

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Remember, you have to announce "Hey, y'all hold mah beer and watch this now!" :)

[bratling.livejournal.com]

i see the articles' author has never ridden a motorcycle:

"To turn left, for example, you’d push the right side of the handlebar forward, to point the front of the tread left--it’s the same motion as on a motorcycle."

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Huh. I missed that myself, but you're absolutely right.