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    Anybody watching the

    Tour de France? If so, does anybody know anything about those motorcycles that are in the field as tv coverage bikes or maybe referee bikes? I noticed a few of them that have two wheels up front but they are not the Spyder Can Am types. These with the two up front are a lot closer together. Just wondering if anybody knows what they are as I have not seen them before.
    Larry

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    '93 Honda ST 1100 SOLD-- now residing in Arizona.
    '18 Triumph Tiger 800 (gone too soon)
    '19 Triumph Tiger 800 Christmas 2018 to me from me.
    '01 BMW R1100RL project purchased from a friend, now for sale.

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    I've only seen them on motorcycles. The wheels move, so that even leaned over, both are always on the ground.
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      #3
      Yamaha Niken. $16000 and you too can have one (not in Tour de France livery though).
      Last edited by simmoto; 07-14-2019, 10:28 PM.

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        #4
        Thanks, I knew someone on this forum would know the answer.
        Larry

        '79 GS 1000E
        '93 Honda ST 1100 SOLD-- now residing in Arizona.
        '18 Triumph Tiger 800 (gone too soon)
        '19 Triumph Tiger 800 Christmas 2018 to me from me.
        '01 BMW R1100RL project purchased from a friend, now for sale.

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          #5
          Interesting bike. Was just reading about it in Rider magazine. Piaggio's MP3 scooter is a 3 wheel like this.
          Last edited by simmoto; 07-14-2019, 10:37 PM.

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            #6
            Peugeot makes something like that, I saw one of them before I saw the Yam.
            1983 GS1100E, 1983 CB1100F, 1991 GSX1100G, 1996 Kaw. ZL600 Eliminator, 1999 Bandit 1200S, 2005 Bandit 1200S, 2000 Kaw. ZRX 1100

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              #7
              I watch the Tour every year. Used to go watch it live when I was back in England. I wish I was that fit! (I also wish there was the kind of infrastructure around cycling in the UK that there is now back then...!)

              I think Thomas will probably hold it this year if he doesn't get too much bad luck. We're about to find out who can survive the mountains...

              Key points: Yamaha becomes the official supplier of the Tour de France beginning in 2019, with three-wheeled motorcycles that are accompanying the peloton this
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                #8
                Thomas's crash where the one rider's bike broke in half was crazy. Amazing he wasn't really injured.
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                ~Herman Melville

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