#engineering

Building a fully functional high performance recumbent racer prototype for manufacture, check out the prototype design and development at ‪@matus1976‬

[@JustThatGuy95]

Loveee stuff like this

[@JohnBeck-pb9xl]

Going to be interesting to see this beastie all finished up and fared in i assume the same or near as possible to Kannada's immigrant bike from the film.

[@matus1976]

Yup, absolutely going to give it the fairings too, but that will be the last step given the investment that goes into composite panel molds and plugs.

[@JohnBeck-pb9xl]

@@matus1976 tell me about it I used to do classic sprint racing many years ago and had a fiberglass mold and copy made of an original aluminium dustbin faring for the bike and it was a few hundred pounds back then would hate to think what a full custom fairing is going to stand you.

[@1_Micah_1]

Have you seen the latest contender in the world of real akira bikes? Design team Bel y Bel has made a hybrid bike that is currently for sale on commission! It blew my mind.

[@JohnBeck-pb9xl]

@@1_Micah_1 I'll have to have a look. It's always been one of those things I'd love to own but it's definitely going to be a lottery win before that sort of free cash is available. So guess it'll remain a pipedream.

[@matus1976]

@@1_Micah_1 Bel y Bel's bike is focused on looking exactly like Kaneda's bike, as opposed to being full size high performance and fully functional. It's quite small and has a top speed of like 40mph. Looks like they are a shop that specialize in movie inspired props. But the craftmanship and skill is top-notch! Just quite a bit different from what I'm doing.