This Futuristic Motorcycle Is The Superbike Of Your Sci-Fi Dreams – Jalopnik

Currently rolling across the Bring A Trailer auction block is a futuristic motorcycle that you dont really see often, if youve seen one at all. This 2008 Vyrus 984 C3 2V Razzetto looks like it was ripped straight out of a video game and it can be yours.

Vyrus is known for making expensive bespoke motorcycles that are functional works of art. The bikes look like something that youd see in a sci-fi movie or concept drawings that would never reach production. This 2008 Vyrus 984 C3 2V Razzetto is so strange that you cant possibly stare at it long enough to appreciate all of its details.

The first thing youll notice is that it doesnt work like most motorcycles. Gone is any sort of fork, making the handlebar look disconnected from the front wheel. Hub-center steering is a quirk of Vyrus bikes, and the way it works is pretty neat.

The front wheel is mounted to a swingarm with a shock and an internal pivot point. Steering is achieved using those bright red linkages that turn the wheel on that pivot point. Heres a visual explanation for how that works:

Hub-center steering has been used on motorcycles going back over a century, but take a pillion seat to the popularity of more traditional forks. As noted by the Odd Bike motorcycle blog, Vyrus founder, Ascanio Rodorigo, worked for Bimota as a race mechanic between the 1970s and 1985.

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Rodorigo left Bimota to start his own company and partnered with Bimota on the hub-center-steered Tesi. Vyrus would develop the steering concept even further in its own motorcycles.

But Vyrus isnt just about weird steering. Each bike built by Vyrus is unique as buyers are offered extreme levels of customization. You can get everything from carbon fiber everywhere to bespoke engine mapping. This Vyrus 984 C3 2V is no different, check out the ad from Bring A Trailer:

Additional features include a Double Omega billet aluminum frame, carbon-fiber bodywork, an adjustable caster angle, Marvic magnesium wheels, Brembo brakes, FG Gubellini suspension components, and a Zard exhaust system.

That exhaust system is art all on its own and features carbon fiber mufflers. You could easily lose hours of time looking at every little detail of this thing.

Should you stop staring at the motorcycle long enough to ride it, power is provided by a Ducati dual spark L-twin bored out to 1,079cc and making 100 HP. That moves the 319-pound machine using a six-speed transmission.

Capping it off is the bikes rather fitting name, Razzetto, which translates little rocket. The seller got it in 2020 from her brothers estate and serviced it then. Its said to have accumulated only 1,900 miles since new

Of course theres a huge catch and its the price. Depending on who you ask, a fully customized one can take you into the six figures. This one is $30,500 with about 30 minutes to go on Bring A Trailer. Hopefully, someone buys this and actually takes it on the road wearing gear that matches its style.

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