룬에 대한 영어컬럼(번역)

Honda Valkyrie Rune – one mean mutha mo'sickle.

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April 7, 2004

By Dave Abrahams

ROAD WARRIOR: It's the meanest-looking motorcycle this side of a Mad Max movie.

Pictures: DAVE ABRAHAMS

 

It's the motorcycle you'd imagine the Terminator riding. It's the biggest, baddest, longest, heaviest, most outrageously styled street bike yet built by a major manufacturer.

마치 터미네이터가 타야할 것 같은 모토바이크; 가장 크고, 가장 멋지고, 가장 길고, 가장 무겁고...메이저 모토바이크 제작사가 만든 현존하는 모토바이크 중 가장 특별한 모토 바이크... 

It has more chrome than a Swedish lounge and more street cred than Vin Diesel.

휘황찬란한 스위덴의 별실보다 더 많은 휘황찬란한 크롬치장이 되어있으면 수퍼카보다 더 한 구경꾼을 불러 모으는 모토바이크.... 

It's Honda's Valkyrie Rune and it could only have been built in America.

바로 그 모토바이크가 혼다의 발키리룬 이며, 이런 모토바이크는 비록 일본회사의 제품이지만 커스텀바이크 제작기술이 남다른 미국에서만 제작이 가능합니다.

The Rune was derived from the T2 concept bike, styled by Honda's California design studio in 2002 and the art deco look, with its swoopy lines, 1940s Pontiac-style radiator shell and deeply valanced mudguards, is pure Malibu custom.It's powered by Honda's biggest ever motorcycle engine, the 1832cc flat six from the current Gold Wing.

"룬"은 2002년 혼다의 캘리포니아 디자인연구소에서 스타일링된 T2컨셉트 모델로 부터 유래되었으며 물흐르는듯한 실루엣과 1940년대 폰티악 스타일을 닮은 라이에타 그릴 그리고 매우 균형잡힌 머드가드는 말리부(Malibu) 커스텀 하우스의 작품 입니다. 엔진은 현재 신형 골드윙에 사용되고 있는 혼다사의 최대엔진인 1832cc 플랫 6기통 엔진이 장착되어 있습니다. 

As are the acres of chrome and dozens of heavy-duty components made by hand from lumps of solid steel and aluminium. 

최고급 기술로 처리한 크롬도금이 바이크를 뒤덮고 있으며 최고급 재질의 주철과 알루미늄을 사용한 부품은 수공으로 제작되어 이 특별한 양산형 커스텀 모토바이크에 사용되었습니다..

 

It's powered by Honda's biggest motorcycle engine, the 1832cc flat-six from the current Gold Wing that's rated at a not very impressive 87kW – but with a mind-boggling 167Nm of torque at only 4000rpm.

Willie G Davidson would kill for numbers like that.

The drive is taken through the stock five-speed Gold Wing transmission and shaft final drive, every external component dripping with chrome, and there's so much custom steelwork on the bike that, even without a fairing, panniers or a pillion seat, it's only 3kg lighter than the parent Lead Sled.

The front suspension is by trailing link; Honda's California style mavens would hate me for saying this but it's a beefed-up version of the time-honoured Vespa front end

Every single ergonomic component has been specially made for this outrageous scooter

. The rear wheel is looked after by a simplified version of Honda's Pro-link monoshock set-up, which isn't chromed because you can't see it.

Stopping a 361kg motorcycle takes more than reasonable braking power so the Rune is fitted with twin three-pot callipers in front and a twin-piston unit at the back, on monster callipers. All three are tied together by Honda's linked braking system, as on the VFR800.

361kg의 거대한 차체를 확실히 제어하기 위해서는 확실한 성능의 브레이킹 파워가 요구되어 집니다. "룬"은 이러한 요구에 대응하기 위해 트윈 3점식 캘리퍼 브레이킹 시스템이 프론트휠에 적용되었고 거대한 캘리퍼에 트윈피스톤 유니트 브레이킹시스템이 뒷바퀴에 장착되어 있는데 이 3가지의 장치들은 혼다의 VFR800에 장착된 브레이킹 시스템처럼 혼다의 독자적 LBS 시스템에 의해 상호연동하여 작동합니다.

Every ergonomic component has been specially made for this outrageous scooter, from the triangular headlight through the hand-carved switchgear to the digital dash - which tells you no more than you need to know.

All it gives you is speed, distance and fuel level, plus a few warning lights in a separate (chromed) pod on the upper triple clamp.

There's no tail light as such; instead two banks of LEDs are let into the rear mudguard, 18 in all, each side of the numberplate mount - which means that if you put a standard South African motorcycle plate on the Rune you'd obscure the brake lights, rendering the bike very, very unroadworthy.

Only 1000 of these very special motorcycles have been built at Honda's plant in Maryville, Kentucky and they are available to special order only. When I approached divisional manager Basil Forssman, he explained that Honda South Africa would not be interested in bringing one in due to the logistical hassles of providing spares and service back-up for a motorcycle which has nothing in common with any other Honda in the country.

켄터키 마리빌 혼다공장에서 단 1000대만의 이 특별한 모토바이크가 한정 생산 되었으며, 특별주문형태로만 판매가 됩니다.

So, if you have a serious need to intimidate the boulevard on the meanest motorcycle this side of a Mad Max movie, you'll have to approach a parallel importer. Somebody in Paarl, 55km north of Cape Town, did; Robbie Perold of Boland Bikes has just uncrated this black Rune, the only one in South Africa, for a customer.

It looks even bigger and meaner in the flesh than it does in the photos, with an almost tangible presence – it projects a brooding toughness just standing still, mostly because all the cosmetics are so heavily structured.

"룬"은 사진으로 보다 실물을 보면 한번 만저보고 싶을정도로 더 크고 더 매혹적 입니다.  모든 디자인적 요소가 철저히 계산되어 제작 되었으므로 그냥 가만히 세워만 놔도 바라보는 사람의 피를 끓어 오르게 만듭니다.

As they say in Kentucky, it's one mean mutha mo'sickle.

And, before you ask, it costs R266 000. And, before you put up your hand again, a rune is described in the OED as "any letter of earliest Germanic alphabet; similar mark of mysterious or magic significance".

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Specifications:

Motor: Liquid-cooled four-stroke flat six.
Capacity: 1832cc.
Bore x stroke: 74.0 x 71.0 mm.
Valvegear: SOHC with two overhead valves per cylinder.
Compression ratio: 9.8:1.
Power: 87kW.
Torque: 167Nm at 4 000rpm.
Induction: PGM-FI electronic fuel injection with six 32mm throttle bodies.
Ignition: Computer-controlled digital with three-dimensional mapping.
Starting: Electric.
Clutch: Hydraulically actuated multi-plate wet clutch.
Transmission:Five speed constant-mesh gearbox with shaft final drive.
Suspension: Trailing link with twin remote hydraulic shock absorbers at front, pro-link monoshock at rear.
Brakes: Twin 330mm discs with three-piston floating callipers at front linked with 336mm disc with twin-piston floating calliper at rear.
Tyres: Front: 150/60 - R18 tubeless radial. Rear: 180/55 - R17 tubeless radial.
Wheelbase: 1750mm.
Seat height: 691mm.
Dry weight: 361kg.
Fuel capacity: 25.5 litres.
Price: R266 000.