A Virtual Steering Monkey Is The Weirdest Motorcycle You will See

The earth is entire of oddball motorcycles from diesels to useful art, but I consider I’ve located one particular of the weirdest types in existence. This “Virtual Steering Monkey” for sale is primarily an outdated Honda Monkey with a novel front-conclude steering notion like a Bimota or Vyrus.

This bewildering equipment is for sale as a “Daytona Virtual Steering Bike” at TVP Classics, a Belgium-primarily based dealership. It is for sale for about $8,670 and you can even import it to the States. But what the hell is this thing?

The individuals of Silodrome took a crack at finding out its record and uncovered extremely minimal information and facts, none of it in English. It was identical for me, and it seems the very best useful resource for the bike was the bike’s creator, previous auto designer Takashi Haneda.

Haneda maintains a web-site about the Virtual Steering Monkey (VSMonkey) and wrote a e-book about building it. They made a package for the very little Honda Z50 Monkey, a ‘60s bicycle so awesome and so available that creation soldiered onto 2017 when it bought changed by a even larger and speedier model.

That package is created by Daytona, a Japanese aftermarket components supplier. For the price of about 220,000 yen in 1998, or $1,960 nowadays, you could switch your Monkey into a little something else totally.

Up entrance is the bizarre steering method the place as an alternative of forks, you get a swingarm that steers.

That is connected to some linkages that switch the wheel around its hub. The strategy was to separate braking, steering and suspension so they never inferfere with a single a further. But Haneda does acknowledge on his web site that the style was styling initially. The steering procedure reminds me of the Yamaha GTS 1000 or a Vyrus, but on a decrease spending plan. Here’s it in action:

The kit also supplied the front finish, a body and a rear swingarm. The relaxation of the sections came from the donor Monkey. This specific VSMonkey is claimed to be “brand new, crafted up with brand name new parts.” Get a nearer search and you’ll see the Monkey’s tank and its adorable 49cc 4.5 HP single.

This a person has some upgrades in the form of 4 adjustable YSS 280mm HQ shock absorbers, braided stainless metal brake hoses, a customized fairing, a carbon Miya exhaust and far more.

The advertising dealership claims that it is a person of 50 and the only avenue legal VSMonkey around the world. Nonetheless, Haneda’s web-site claims “as many as 80″ were constructed as of April 2000. The higher than online video also demonstrates a VSMonkey with a license plate and everything else that would be wanted to make it avenue authorized.

Continue to, regardless if there is 50 or 80 of them this detail is adequately exceptional and in all probability one of the weirdest bikes you can have for the price. And it is so low-cost that you can journey it without the need of feeling poor for placing miles it.