It's a Porsche with a difference. It has two wheels, 20 gears, one seat, no doors and weighs just 20lb. Its engine is 46 years old, though, and hasn't been tuned in years. Worse than that, it wheezes badly on the slightest hill. On the upside, it's cheap to fuel - it runs on food scraps and red wine... Whether it's a bike or a car, however, some Porsche details are the same: it's fast, expensive, stylish - and still doesn't have a boot.
The Porsche RS is a high-spec, carbon-framed bike which in the words of the press release has been "inspired by the company's GT road-car department". I'm not sure if inspired is the right word. It's certainly not the first time a carmaker has gone from four wheels to two. BMW, Land Rover, Audi and Mercedes have all been here before. Of course some bike makers, Peugeot for instance, have gone the other way - from two to four wheels.
There are two Porsche bikes to choose from: the S, which comes in at £2,999 and is aluminium framed with a fixed gear, and the RS, at a nostril-twitching £4,999. Both are startling-looking bikes. In the same way that the Panamera and Cayenne have broken ranks with the design ethos of Porsche's classic bubble-shaped 911s, the bikes,... Source/Origin >> Read More
