Sariel shows his Power Functions mastery yet again with this motorized model of Kaneda’s Bike from Akira. The model features remote-control steering, working lights and even a dauntless driver who you get to find out by watching the video below. You can learn more about this project from the builder’s website.
This is pretty amazing! I don’t know what it would have taken to get an IR receiver and battery box on there, but I think it would have been worth it to be able to drive this thing around without wires. Maybe a “driver” fig of some sort could hold the battery box and IR receiver? Or make a little trailer for this thing to pull around that houses those (sure, it would detract a little from the model while driving it around, but not as enough to negatively counter how awesome it would be to drive around a motorcycle remotely!)
Great model. Really impressive engineering.