Motorbikes: Revisited

Remember this post a mere two posts ago? Upon reading it my good friend 'M' (that zany paranoid-innocent) found a way to crystallize exactly why I found the video and subsequent rider of the NighShadow so strangely unfitting. You see, it's a design flaw that makes this poor fellow (and the bike itself) so unfortunate in action. Simply put, the seat is too far back. This ultimately causes the rider to stretch ridiculously in order to reach the handle bars and places him/her in a very.. disadventageous.. position behind the beast, if you catch my drift. Had the seat been put say, closer to the back of the panther, or maybe even if the rider was wearing black pants or something to help blend him more into the design of the bike, perhaps things would look a little more correct. As it is though, the NightShadow is certainly a wonderful example of beautiful design with an unfortunate, and fatal (imo), flaw.