• Robert

    Bloody hell. If your desperate to burn gas, get a trail bike instead. You’ll do it much faster, have more fun and go a hell of a lot further. For those too inept to ride a two wheeler get a quad. For those more in-tune with the environments they are recreating in and don’t wont to add the stink of burning oil or the infernal noise, think of others and ride a mountain bike. As for military applications, kind of reminds of of ducks in a shooting gallery, forget keep your head down and, forget moving quietly.

  • Daniel

    @Robert: Did you read the article or just decided to mouth off without reading?

    This is an experiment for the military developing a smaller mode of transportation.

    “Another added benefit is that it can be operated remotely for tasks such as removing injured solders from the battlefield and moving supplies.”

    Oooh I bet a trail bike can do that too. OH WAIT.

  • http://www.tanks.net Tank Guy James

    I think it’s spigging awesome! I’d love to own one. As for Robert’s comment, aren’t we allowed to have fun in as many ways as possible anymore, is it just the two choices for you – motorcycles or mountain bikes?

    I particularly liked the RC applications displayed, the military seems to be investing a lot in remote technology recently. Before long there’ll hardly be any transition from xBox to real battlefield for new recruits.

  • Grant Watson

    Man what a weapon this thing has balls as big as coconuts.
    I am a new things junkie and ride a Odes MCF450R motor crosser(check it at ODES Racing.com) from China and no Honda or KTM can get away from this baby. I am learning to flip it and I wish santa would bring me a Tank Board so I could learn to flip it. The ultimate adrenalin pump. No one lives for ever. I have plenty of steel in my limbe already. Ride on or piss off back to mommy.

  • http://www.fof-usa.com Jerry Mael

    Yeah.. A 125 pound machine will pull a 200+ pound injured soldier… how far?

  • http://www.fof-usa.com Jerry Mael

    The spinning tracks and rocks thrown at him would really be a good idea, too.
    This is silly over priced over hyped, bs.

  • http://www.fof-usa.com Jerry Mael

    BPG-Werks is looking at a final price of $4,900.00
    Not too bad if you say the price really fast..

  • Tab

    Jerry Mael obviously has no idea how mechanics or torque work. How does a 125-pound machine pull a 200-pound soldier? Probably the same way it pulls a 7000-pound Ford truck (as they demonstrated in an older video), or how a 453-ton tugboat pulls a 220,000-ton cruise ship into harbor, or how a 5-ton runway taxi pulls a 1.25 million pound Airbus. How far? As far as it wants or until it runs out of gas.

    Protip: Think before you open your mouth, and even then, have some sort of clue as to what you’re saying in the first place.