twodear:
Thanks mate, much appreciated!
The brakes are intentionally omitted to keep the hollow area of the rims as clean as possible, but they could be added (like the ones on buell for instance), but they could also be hidden within the wheel along with the electromotor. Tank bag and hard-cases are optional. However, installation of the hard-case mount requires drilling couple of holes in the tail fairing.
Rapid:
Thanks man!
Yes, VRay is one of the top "biased" render engines out there. It's used alot for visualizations, especially in architecture. Modeling itself doesn't require a strong computer, although it doesn't hurt to have one. I'm currently working on intel Core 2 Quad, 4-core cpu rated at 2.4 GHz, but I overclocked it to 3.7 GHz, with nvidia GTX 275 for openGL. For renders, a local "render farm" was utilized. It's equipped with 6 dual-xeon servers, each having a total of 8 cores at 2.4Ghz (I think). All views from final composit were rendered in 2000x1500 and average render time was something like 2 hrs per image (1 server per image).
The rear swingarm is split in the middle and both halves are leaning on each other. I thought from mechanical POV that might give it more sturdiness. Although, some kind of link, that would keep them joined regardless of independent swing, might be desirable.
David:
Thanks!
Can't find R1250S prototype on that link, but an interesting site anyway.