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Originally Posted by Roncallo
It looks very slick, but prototypes always do. Then the realities of production take hold. It looks over priced to me. My feeling is 1/2 the weight and size should be 1/2 the price. 22,000 US is not chump change. That kind of money will buy me a good used 560SEL and fuel it for 7 years. The market in Europe will be much better where you can only fuel the 560SEL for 3 years.
John Roncallo
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Light weight is more expensive to build than heavy. Wanna go light? How light can you afford? Look at a lotus. A benz has a lot of aluminum in it and that drives up cost but reduces weight. Bmw too.
A big bmw bike weighs less than 500#. Nearly half what a Harley or big honda weighs. My old bmw r60/5 weighed only 379#....very light for its class and day.
Tom W
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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.