QUOTE (GenerationZero @ Jan 18 2005, 11:20 PM)
Best I can tell, the front is facing to the right side of the pic, and the rear is on the right. The handlebars seem to indicate that, anyway, and I think those are footrests near what I'm calling the back wheel down there... And the wheel on the right looks bigger, which makes sense for a rear wheel on a bike with that much power. Isn't this the bike they didn't release because it had so much power, they couldn't even get anybody to test drive the prototype?
You're pointing both the front and the rear to the right, sparky.
The front is the side with the handlebars closer to it. The rear is the side with the seat closer to it.
The prob with bike Alternators is twofold - first, at the same scale as the cars, they'd be tiny. But the Tomahawk is gigantic, so it kinda solves that - it'd only be wee in comparison to the other Alts, instead of super-wee. Second, there's just less volume for the surface area available in which to hide parts. This is why you see so many crotchrocket TFs - all that extra plastic gives you somewhere to put limbs. The Tomahawk here only has that central block to hide everything in, unless you do something clever like stow parts between the wheels, and when all's said and done you've got a wee little Wreck Gar robot mode to boot.
Besides, it IS ugly. *decidedly not a Harley or sportbike purist* However, with all that brushed steel, it would look Wreck-Gar-ish if you left it out in the rain for a few years...