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Real-life 120mph Tron Lightcycle created

By T.K. Randall
August 26, 2011 · Comment icon 13 comments

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Parker Brothers Choppers have built a working replica of the bikes used in the movie Tron: Legacy.
Powered by a fuel-injected Suzuki 996cc the custom built bikes are now on sale to customers who have £33,000 to spare. "The hardest part of the build was trying to go from the CGI of the movie to a real-life situation," said operations manager Jeff Halverson. "We pretty much started out just seeing if we could make [it]."
A motorbike painstakingly engineered to replicate the computer-generated bike in science fiction film Tron: Legacy is now on sale. In the film, the bike was created using state-of-the-art CGI graphics and is controlled by computer programs and gamers.


Source: Daily Mail | Comments (13)




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Comment icon #4 Posted by Rhino666 13 years ago
Not really... it's going to ground out very quickly.... in most countries people have corners. They've forgotten about that. No pictures of how it handles !!
Comment icon #5 Posted by Consumer 13 years ago
Playboy cover shoot?!?! The Tron motorcycle and naked girls....wow..
Comment icon #6 Posted by Spid3rCyd3 13 years ago
Pretty cool, but where's the light cycle's...lights?
Comment icon #7 Posted by xXHellkittiesXx 13 years ago
Wow, great board games like Monopoly and now this, lol. Of course it looks uncomfortable and seems to reach top speeds of 5 mph, but it neat.
Comment icon #8 Posted by Feenix Fire 13 years ago
Super awesome. Bit large, but its a start. I wants one. I'll park it next to the DeLorean time machine and PeeWee Herman bike I'm going to buy...someday...
Comment icon #9 Posted by Trakyan 13 years ago
one where is the screen of light that is meant to trail behind it two how is it differnt to any other bike except its paintjob and different look i mean you could take a scoter and add some plasctic at the sides and say hey i made a light scooter and everybody will go ohh and ahh like my music teacher when he hears a jazz chord
Comment icon #10 Posted by Mbyte 13 years ago
no 90 degree turns there!
Comment icon #11 Posted by Beastly Decimal 13 years ago
I notice they only went like 10 mph...where's the speed?
Comment icon #12 Posted by xCrimsonx 13 years ago
Wicked!
Comment icon #13 Posted by DONTEATUS 13 years ago
Looked great on papre and the massive track will be its down fall. Not too stable . And imagine trying to bail off this ride quickly ! Looks Great though ! Hey there Crimson!


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