Max wrote:
I like the sculpted rounded shapes (and the lower screen) found on the MC28, which particularly pick up on the Rothmans lines around the seat unit. It looked just like the GP bikes of the day, epic! And the single sided swingarm is genius, even if the performance gain was negligible.

The MC21 looked like the NSR250...



long before the MC28 tried to look like the NSR500...



...which ironically was a 1992 (MC21 era) model with a Gull-Arm!

The MC28 should've been styled after Okada's 1993 NSR250...



...which is unquestionably beautiful, even to a Gull-Arm fan!

The Pro-Arm is a bone of contention. It was designed purely as an endurance part. In 1986 it was a ground-breaking and massive performance gain in 8hr World Endurance and at the TT. For anything else, even in GP, it's probably nothing more than an styling/licensing thing with Elf.

Every successive release was increasingly braced, be it on an RC30, an RVF, or NSR, culminating on a massive swingarm on the factory NSR500V...



...that I am sure would've been better off with a conventional swingarm. They retained the Pro-Arm to overtly distinguish the V-twin from the V4. By 1994 it was purely cosmetic for the MC28. [Both TSR and Bakker racing produced NSR500V chassis with conventional swingarms.]

In 1999 Kato was already back on an NSR250 with a conventional swingarm...



...and in the worst colours to ever grace any NSR!

The factory RVFs even went to a conventional swingarm in the final year of World Superhype.


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