Off-road motorcycles that are controlled by themselves in the air to jump. It is not a utopia or a crude imagination. It’s the plan you have Honda on the table to bring some of their bikes, and that is quite a revolution.
The Japanese factory is innovating beyond power. Their latest patents are a sample of the technological progress they want to bring to their road and off-road motorcycles. To the latest innovations such as the airbag that surrounds the pilot or the steering assistance system in gear now it is joined by the control of jumps in the air.
The idea of the newJump Control’ is that the motorcycle can be controlled in the air automatically thanks to a system made up of a camera that reads the terrain (including its slope) and a computer that processes the images and regulates the inclination of the motorcycle accordingly.
In the conception of the idea and of the patent it is clear to whom the system is directed regardless of piloting level. This will be translated into a greater intervention or intrusion of the system in the piloting when the pilot is going to make a jump and is going to leave the motorcycle hanging in the air.
The patent revealed by Cycle World exposes the entire system, using a Honda CRF450 Rally as a model. To do this, it brings three different modes of intervention. He A is the most intrusive of all and the one that not only regulates the inclination in the air, but also the speed, preventing the motorcycle from taking the wheels off the ground.
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then there is the B mode for drivers with a little more experience. This mode already allows the wheel to take off slightly from the ground, but it is regulated in the air by handling the throttle and causing the motorcycle to land on both wheels at all times.
Finally and for highly experienced pilots, the C mode that offers practically absolute freedom and that allows you to juggle what you want on the motorcycle.
To keep the bike balanced in the air. When accelerating the motorcycle, the system causes the motorcycle to rise from the front and when you step on the brake, it lowers. Undoubtedly an innovative system designed for all audiences thanks to its different modes. From those who start in the world of off-road and They do not want to scare those who seek absolute freedom of movement and jump on the bike.
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Naturally, Honda has only allowed the system to be seen through the registered patents, so it is a mystery to know when it will arrive, and what can attract the most attention, on which motorcycles it will do it, although it is clear that will be for motorcycles of off-road characterwondering if that could also be considered an Africa Twin or the new Transalp.