In the early 1980s, a French oil company built a Honda-powered Grand Prix motorcycle with no telescopic front forks. Instead, the front wheel was controlled by a hub-centre steering system that separated braking and steering forces completely. Ron Haslam raced it in actual GP competition. He said it felt unlike any other motorcycle — as if a layer of noise had been removed. It never won a race. But engineers who studied it years later said the concept was sound. The technology just arrived thirty years too early. . . . #OneLungRacing #ELFX #ELFHonda #HubCentreSteering #GPRacing #500cc #RonHaslam #MotorcycleEngineering #GrandPrix #ForbiddenTech #ExperimentalMoto #MotorcycleHistory #MotoHistory #BimoTaTesi #HondaRacing #AvantGarde #EngineeringBreakthrough #ClassicGP #TwoStroke #MotorcycleInnovation