Honda preparing Dakar assault

[wrk2surf]

http://www.honda.co.jp/DAKAR/

[rmhrc628]

Originally Posted by too old

jc is there to support and assist the hrc team and helder, that he will do 100%

one thing he will do (machine permitting) is to stay with helder to the finish - job done

go johnny

1000%

[sfevildick]

Helder's got this one!

[Brodovitch]

All 5 of the HRC bikes unpacked at Lima... lots of spares unfortunately

[wilkinsonk]

Anyone know what is the big blocky part at the end of the right side swingarm? Looks like it might be a brake carrier.

[HogWild]

Originally Posted by wilkinsonk

Anyone know what is the big blocky part at the end of the right side swingarm?

Inverse traction articulator. (冗談だよ)

[wrk2surf]

brake caliper guard and disc guard

[wilkinsonk]

Originally Posted by HogWild

Inverse traction articulator. (冗談だよ)

You had me going for a second. I get the disk guard, just trying to figure the need for the big square of aluminum at the end.

Also interesting to note no Red Bull graphics on Helder's bike. Looks like corporate only.

[DruncleWill]

Originally Posted by wilkinsonk

Also interesting to note no Red Bull graphics on Helder's bike. Looks like corporate only.

Has me wondering if the rider contracts only allow for helmet space? I noticed Johnny Campbell sporting a Rock Star flatbill in the family Christmas photo

[KZJohn]

Originally Posted by HogWild

Inverse traction articulator. (冗談だよ)

Spoken like an engineer.

[wrk2surf]

Originally Posted by HogWild

(冗談だよ)

are you really ?

[wrk2surf]

Originally Posted by wilkinsonk

You had me going for a second. I get the disk guard, just trying to figure the need for the big square of aluminum at the end.

Also interesting to note no Red Bull graphics on Helder's bike. Looks like corporate only.

Now I see what your are seeing...Probably a mount for a flag for dune riding in the US..

[wrk2surf]

Originally Posted by Brodovitch

All 5 of the HRC bikes unpacked at Lima... lots of spares unfortunately

quick work...



Nice tank stands!

[HogWild]

Originally Posted by wrk2surf

Now I see what your are seeing...Probably a mount for a flag for dune riding in the US..

Why would they still be installed in Peru? If they are dunes flag mounts, they are WAY bigger than any I've seen before.

The "inverse traction articulator" are my words for a チューンドマスダンパー. Or in simple terms, a speciic weight attached to a carefully matched spring. When the swingarm moves, a small mass compresses the small attached spring. When the swingarm stops moving, the mass catches up and then applies a force back into the swingarm a few miliseconds later. That can momentarily give you extra traction, and it slightly smooths out the work the shock has to perform as well. I don't know anything more than that, which is what Gato told me two years ago. What Honda has here probably isn't that, but it's a good story anyway!

[wrk2surf]

ahh so... a tuned mass damper in other words.. BUT if you look at the newest photo the flag holders are now gone .. hogsan you speaky google translate foo well !