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Accidental Icons: The Halcyon Origin Story

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The Halcyon is the motorcycle that defines Janus Motorcycles, but it didn’t start as a grand master plan. It started as a distraction, a “what if” rooted in older machines and the gut feeling that early motorcycles sometimes got the proportions right more than anything on the showroom floor today.

We walk through the Halcyon 50, 250, and 450 as one continuous design language, then zoom in on the part that makes a Halcyon instantly recognizable: the fuel tank. You’ll hear why early steel tanks fought the welding process, why aluminum became the answer, and how an Amish fabricator’s idea borrowed from farm equipment created the iconic V down the top. It’s a perfect example of vintage-inspired motorcycle design meeting real fabrication constraints, where the solution becomes the signature.

From there we go deeper into the history that shaped the concept, from cafe racer roots and the Janus Paragon to the pull of pre-war motorcycles like Sunbeams, Rydges, early Triumphs, and the legendary Brough Superior. We also share a key influence from custom builder Ian Barry and talk about what “form and function matching” actually looks like on a bike you can ride every day. Along the way, we hit community updates like Discovery Days, the Ramblers Roundup, the Distinguished Gentleman’s Ride, and an upcoming Detroit stop at Moto Michigan.

If you care about hand-built motorcycles, Janus Halcyon details, and why some designs feel timeless, you’ll get plenty to chew on. Subscribe, share the show with a fellow rider, and leave a rating so more ramblers can find us.

SPEAKER_00

Hello everyone, welcome to the Ramble Stream Podcast. I'm Richard, and I'm Jansen. Each week we sit down for rambling conversations about motorcycles, the experience of riding, design, and whatever else catches our fancy. Bring a beverage of your choice or stories, and we'll see where this takes us.

SPEAKER_01

If you're interested in thoughtful conversations, friendly and informative banter with fellow riders, and the latest dispatches from Janice Motorcycles headquarters, you're in the right place. Let's get started. Welcome to the Ramble Stream episode number 122. We're excited to be here. 223, Richard. 23.

SPEAKER_00

I just said it. We're happy you're here. Thank you all so much for joining us. Everyone's giving me crap in the chat. My name is Jansen, not Crocs. For those of you who are new. Jansen Crocs UTEC. UTEC. That's me. That's me, man.

SPEAKER_01

No, we're we're we're uh we got a good program for you. This is actually a this is gonna be a fun one, I think. It's a different one. It's gonna be a real, for me at least, a real easy ramble. Yeah. Um, so I'm looking forward, really looking forward to your questions, especially on this episode where we're talking about the halcyon and the whole concept and the history. I got a fun photo album pulled up that Jansen's gonna share with y'all. So we're going back to the very roots. So this is not models, it's model specific, but it we're gonna cover the 50, the 250, and the 450. All of it. So um the whole concept. The the Halcyon, if you're not familiar with Janice motorcycles, like most of you probably don't know anything about them. No, I don't think so. Um it's our it's our top selling, it's the model that defines us. So we're excited this evening to to talk about that. Um, if you're new to the ramble stream, please drop us a comment in in the comment section. Um, tell us where you are viewing from, what you ramble with. If it is a Janice that you ramble with, tell us the model and the serial number. And last but not least, tell us what you're sipping on this evening. My name is Richard Worsham. I am co-founder and head of design at Janice Motorcycles. I ramble, I'm broadcasting from downtown Goshen, Indiana at the Ramble Studio here with Jansen. And I ramble with a 1980 Vespa PK50 XL, which is smells like gas because of it. Which is on the workbench right now. It hasn't run in 10 years. It's one of the first two-wheel vehicles I ever it is the first two-wheel vehicle that I ever had for an extended, my family had for an extended period of time. It technically belongs to my mother, but it has been sitting in my garage for at least a couple of years, and the gas in that tank is a rank. It's a rank tank. It is as we say. Yes. Um, so I think the thing would just kick over if it wasn't for the fact that ethanol fuel was in that tank for at least the last 10 years. So it's been, I spent about four hours today with full of a 30% vinegar vinegar concentrate. Nick says, I've been smelling that Vespa for the last two hours. He's in the same room with it. Anyway, I hope it'll be running by the next ramble stream. I believe it might be running tomorrow. I ramble with a 19 2006-9 Kawasaki KLR650 and a 2017 Halcyon 250 number 68. And this evening I am sipping on cold butter.

SPEAKER_00

Uh, my name is Jansen. Also, also broadcasting live from the Ramble Stream studio here in Goshen, Indiana at Janice Motorcycles World Headquarters. Um, I Ramble in a Ford Lightning and soon to be rambling on a Phoenix 450 number four. I'm sipping on some ride or die rye whiskey from none other than Journeyman. Jason was just saying that he's almost polished off a bottle. I single-handedly. I only drink this on Monday nights, and I don't know what that's about me, but over the last four weeks, this has been just me. It's it's super good.

SPEAKER_01

Give me another uh give me another week and a half, no, two weeks. Hey. I'll be back. Well, oh, this will be gone.

Membership Perks And Voicemail Plug

SPEAKER_00

So it's a good thing we have other bottles, huh? Um, but we were just hanging out in the pre-ramble with uh a few members, and we had a great time talking about uh the show itself and some some secrets coming down the Janice pipeline here. Um so if you guys would like to be a part of that continuity, we can't have everybody be a member. No, we can't share that. There wouldn't be a secret. Nobody, nobody join. If you guys would like to join that conversation and hang out with us, if you want to get some um some, I don't know, if you want to have every single one of your comments read and every single one of your uh questions answered, you can do that by joining the the the membership. Hit the join button below. Um, I believe it's at 199 at its base.

SPEAKER_01

So you also get access to members-only content in all of our videos a week in advance.

SPEAKER_00

Yep. As well as the the pre-ramble. So you can do that uh down below. We are glad you guys are here. If you guys would like to uh leave us a voicemail, what number should they call?

SPEAKER_01

574-501-3830. Give us a call, leave us a message, and we will feature your voicemail on the Ramble stream if it is fit for the press.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, so far, Speed Racer's the only one to send us a call to give us a call. Give us a call. Give us a call, dang it. I want to hear your voice. What do you what do you got for us? What uh I don't think we've got a poem today, right? We do not have a poem.

A Motorcycle Magazine Worth Reading

SPEAKER_01

Um, you're gonna have to listen to me read four pages from a motorcycle magazine. I'm just gonna kick the mic all the way out here. Okay. All right, guys. What what what is this? I will give it a little introduction. So this is um from the spring issue of the Feznoch magazine. I'm gonna go ahead and just give a little plug for Feznock here. Feznock is the four-stroke singles national owners club, and they have been in existence for 40 years this year. 40 years is run by Jack Robinson, who just so happens to have written the foreword to the Rambler's companion. Mr. Jack Robinson is an awesome um, there you go, um, motorcyclist dedicated to four-stroke single motorcycles.

SPEAKER_00

What a guy.

SPEAKER_01

And they have a wonderful club. They meet all over the country. They'll they basically just ride in for like lunch. You know, they'll just ride in on their KLR or their DR or their 250 or whatever it is. But they have a one a great magazine. Although, well, look, it's it's a wonderful little publication done by Jack. Oh well, he's got a new bike, he's got a Griffin 450. And I know that he took it down to Daytona. Uh-huh. And he stopped here. Yeah, he stopped here. And then he is going somewhere else. So he's racking up those miles. Just slowly but surely. Now he's got a sidecar on his on his halcyon. So his dog. He's he's he's racking up the miles.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. No, I think I think that encapsulates getting close to 100. It has to be. Has to be.

SPEAKER_01

I think that encapsulates um what what we believe as the best form of writing. Motard 91, pull up that comment. I think that's that that uh uh really is so true. Sometimes not knowing any better is a blessing. A lack of preconceived notions allows for a truly new and transformative experience. Amen. Well said. Um yeah, it's that's it's like not knowing any better is almost like getting away with it.

SPEAKER_00

Well, right. Well, that's how you explore new ways to do the same old thing without really knowing that you're doing it the like a new way.

SPEAKER_01

I just think about me on my 50cc moped as a teenager and just thinking like, I mean, I thought I was the like I was having more fun than I was allowed. Yeah. Yeah, you're stealing. Or on that little 50cc Vespa when I was 14. Right. It was the coolest thing ever. Yeah, I'm looking forward to getting that running again. I I'm looking forward to to seeing you write it. Somewhere we got a picture of Pete's jacket. He has all of his money. All of them. And he's got so many that he he can't sew them on the front anymore. He's starting to sew them on the side.

The Halcyon Tank As A “Thing”

SPEAKER_00

That's great. That's great. What do you guys think of builds of the week? Do you still like the? I would like to pose. Do we want to go through the whole build still? Are we liking this version of it? Um, or do we just want to go straight to the colors and see the full build? You guys let me know in the comments. But in the meantime, uh, to continue with our halcyon themed episode, minus the builds of the week. Uh, what do we have as a thing, Richard? They can't quite see in this in the frame, can they?

SPEAKER_01

They can't. It's just out of frame. So, in keeping with our uh overall theme for this evening's uh ramble stream, we have uh a our thing this evening that is uh a part of a halcyon.

SPEAKER_00

It's probably the most important part of the halcyon. The the the most uh part the part that kind of really identifies it. Ooh. What is that, Richard? It's very dusty. It is very dusty. We found it in the basement. I don't think you could see that, but that was a lot of dust.

SPEAKER_01

This is a halcyon 250 fuel tank. And I thought this was a good thing. We thought this would be fun to show you all because it's a um a uh raw tank. So they're all aluminum and they're welded up by our Amish fabrication. Does it have a big dent in it? No, that's just a piece of rank tank gunk on the side. This is not a rank tank. This is uh untouched, but this is welded out of five pieces. Let me make sure this one's this is actually an old this is this predates the five piece. So this is this has now they're three piece, I think.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

But we we used to weld them on the seam, like this one is, and now we actually well there's a seam, we move the seam in so that we that that this is more clean um and the weld can be left rough. Nice so that it allows a little bit better weld. Yeah. Um you don't have to grind the weld off. Yeah. But what does this say?

SPEAKER_00

Tank, we're not gonna be giving away a halcyon fuel tank. It gets me every time. You guys are hilarious.

SPEAKER_01

If this a if this there's text at the bottom that he's reading, it's it's written on the bank. If this tank gets thrown away, Charlie wants it. Well, Charlie didn't get this one. Um, but you can tell this is a 250 tank because it has um the fuel vent and the uh location for the pet cock. Your 450 has a big machine plate here for the fuel pump assembly. But the fuel the 250 tank goes back a long way. Um, and it originally started off in steel and it didn't have the V. It was just flat on the top. Really? No V. I and if you've been to a Discovery Day, you've heard this story, so I apologize. But the V that I'm talking about is this shape down the top that ends in a point there at the back. And the we we we originally um it was it was flat and it was steel, and we could not figure out we were welding them and they were kept bowing in the middle in terms of all the heat we were a lot of heat we were putting into it. And finally we we tried cooling it, water cooling it while we were welding it. We tried all kinds of things, and eventually we settled on aluminum because it was it was also a very heavy tank by the time it was made out of steel, and we fit we settled on aluminum um because it was lighter, but most importantly, it dissipates heat from the weld process better, and it actually ended up working out better for us, and then but we were still having some deformation and our Amish, the owner of the weld shop, Leroy, said, Well, what if you considered uh putting a uh a break uh uh in a V down the top? And I thought, uh do we have to maybe okay, fine, we'll try it, we'll try that out. And then when I saw it, I go, I'm like, whoa, that looks incredible. Um, yeah, this is a great idea. So the V Thank you, Leroy. The V wasn't like and it was not in it was not in the design at all. It was wow, this is really dirty. Um, it was not in the design at all. And we started doing it, and then uh like a couple of months later, a walking through his shop, and and Leroy also makes um his own line of um like brush hogs and log splitters and farm equipment. Uh-huh. And he has this big old um brush hog with this giant cowling on it on the front with a big blade on the front, and right down the top, there's this big V brake. Big old V. I was like, hey Leroy, is that where you yep, that's where we came up with that idea. That's funny. That's great. So the V on this really literally owes its design to a piece of agricultural equipment. Hey. And I don't think that the Halcyon would be as successful without that. It is it's it's iconic.

SPEAKER_00

So distinct. Yeah. Like it it's it's hard, honestly, hard for me to imagine uh a halcyon tank without the V in it.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. I mean, it what we were going for, as you can imagine, with the shape of this tank, was uh something along the lines of an early, like a bruph superior tank, which I think I still think the breath superior is one of the most beatable motorcycles of all time. Yeah, uh, it doesn't matter if it's old, it matters that it looks good. And so we were we were kind of channeling that, but uh we were limited. It the constraint we had was that the way that we make things. And we make things, we don't have giant stamps that manufacture our tanks in any shape we want. We have to use a we're using old World War II era brake presses, and they they they can they make their they're they lend themselves to certain kinds of metal forming, and this is a product of that. This specific tank is kind of also interesting because that shape on the side of the tank, that is the this was the prototype we used on the 450 um when we were mocking it up. Uh-huh. And that was the first time I drew what I wanted the medallion to look like and where I wanted it.

SPEAKER_00

The medallion where we on the 450. We then proceeded to order a countless amount of medallions, and they were then the radius was the radius was on was 90 degrees.

SPEAKER_01

Actually, first the first medallion. This is the we went a little smaller. There's the medallion. But the first one. This is the first one. And this is just uh just like our fuel caps is uh laser engraved. And we took this and we've just formed it in the prototype. So if you look at the old videos when we launched it, this is what's on it. That's that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, if you guys are ever wondering like what this entire shelf is, this is just Janice old prototype. This is Janice history just all along this shelf here. Uh, so it's it's very fun to look at and very nerve-wracking to disturb. It's like a museum back here.

SPEAKER_01

I try and keep it a little bit um less dusty than that fuel pack which was in the basement.

SPEAKER_00

But that's what happens when things get in the basement, you know. You know what we forgot to do? And you're not gonna uh I had to do to come up with a new definition of a thing. Oh, that's that's oh you you did? I I did I had to last week. Oh, but it but it's your turn this week. Okay, great. I'm not gonna let you get off the hook.

SPEAKER_01

Um, a thing, I'll say a thing is something that um that you can tell a story about.

SPEAKER_00

Have I already said that? I don't know, but it's so it makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I'm upset that I didn't come up with it.

SPEAKER_01

No, I I think a thing is uh yeah, it is something like this is this one. I don't know if we're ever gonna use that tank. Yeah, maybe I'll use it on the chopper.

SPEAKER_00

Um but uh we do have episode two coming out very soon. Of the chopper. Of the chopper.

SPEAKER_01

No chopper build this week. Tuesday, Tuesday choppers are off. No chopper Tuesday this week. Jeff's got a field trip with his daughter.

Rallies Discovery Days And Detroit Plans

SPEAKER_00

So we're we can't do anything without Jeff. Can't do anything without Jeff. A resident chopper expert. Yeah. Um, but uh yeah, that uh that I'll leave it at that for a thing. Cool. That's awesome. I love that. I think that makes a lot of sense. We've got uh not a lot, not a lot of events going on, uh, but we are kind of we have a lot of events, but we're not gonna cover all of them. We we're kind of in like a a recharge mode. We're about to slingshot into the riding season here. But um uh our most important, I would say, uh, news and announcements uh are the owner's rally or our owner's roundup.

SPEAKER_01

The Ramblers Roundup.

SPEAKER_00

Ramblers Roundup.

SPEAKER_01

September 17th through 20th. Um tickets are very affordable. Get you their tickets, um, get you your tickets. Um we look forward to seeing all of y'all. We're gonna have a whole lot of fun things. Um, go visit our webpage for that. One event that I'm gonna add to the agenda that I just remembered is um Distinguished Gentleman's Ride. Oh, yeah, DGR. It's coming up uh the middle to end of next month. We'll be posting a ton about that very shortly. If you're not familiar with DGR, Distinguished Gentleman's Ride, it's a great event. So um it uh we raise, we've raised like over$10,000 the last two or three years for men's health and um prostate cancer research. Um it's an awesome event. You get to dress up in dapper attire and ride your motorcycle. We're gonna be riding from the Janice shop up to the uh Elcart Triumph. So it's actually gonna be a more shorter, more urban ride where we can show off a little more to people rather than just riding through the countryside. Right. And we're really looking forward to it. So posts on that.

SPEAKER_00

Always a great time. Um love the uh DGR. But um, to go back to the Ramblers Roundup, if you guys would like to sign up, uh I put a link in the comments there so you guys can check that out. Um, what do you know about this past weekend, Richard?

SPEAKER_01

This past weekend we had a discovery day. We had our first discovery day of 2026, it was a huge hit. We had uh a great group of riders coming in, um, many of whom were Janice owners. So we're this year we are focusing on um encouraging Janus owners to show up at the at the event. It's if you if you're a Janice owner, it's free.

SPEAKER_00

It is free. You have to use the code Disco Day. And like I've said it multiple times, but if you're not an owner and you use that discount code, we're gonna know.

SPEAKER_01

Uh we will know uh because we'll see you. Um the next one is filling up really quickly. So we encourage you all to sign up for it. It's in June. Um, if you're not able to make a discovery day, there they happen on Saturday. We have breakfast, um, like you know, pastries, coffee, and then we give a tour of the shop. We talk bikes, we let you take a test ride, and we have lunch. So it's a great time. We had a blast. Yeah, we got to hang out with a bunch of bikes, folks with multiple GNS bikes.

SPEAKER_00

Got a little bit of FOMO, so I think I'm gonna be at the next one. Oh, please do. I'll it's fun. I'll be at the one ride around a little bit. And then our last announcement uh we've got uh a fun event in Detroit at um what what what's it's Moto Michigan. Moto Michigan. Uh they are doing a makers market where they're gonna have uh a ton of vendors, uh motorcycling adjacent vendors. And uh I'm I'm not sure what the event entails, uh, but I know that we've been to uh Moto Camp. Yep. And I've been to Moto Michigan, and the place is incredible.

SPEAKER_01

It's an amazing venue. It's huge. They have amazing food and coffee, they have apparel, they have a big event space, they're gonna have music, they're gonna have vendors. Um you can imagine the kind of vendors they're gonna attract. Food, lots of motorcycles. We're gonna be there and we're gonna do a live a live ramble stream. So it's really

SPEAKER_00

Cool and exciting.

SPEAKER_01

If you're in the area, come on up. I know there are going to be some other Janus owners there as well. That's in Detroit.

SPEAKER_00

Again, that's on May 21st. Ferndale 1st. Well, no, I mean Ferndale, Detroit.

SPEAKER_01

It's north of Detroit.

The Halcyon’s Accidental Beginning

SPEAKER_00

I was about to say north northeast. Is that is that right? Yeah, pretty much. Uh, but that's all for the news and announcements. You guys can get your helmet helmet locks at Janus Motorcycles.com. This stream has been brought to you by helmet locks. Helmet locks and Janice Motorcycles. Uh, we will not be giving away helmet lock and or helmet or anything related to that. But now what you guys are all really here for, Richard. What what is the halcyon 250? What is the halcyon 50? What is the halcyon 450? What is the origin? What the heck is it a big question, Janssen? I I want to learn more, okay?

SPEAKER_01

Well, uh, the halcyon was a mistake. Really? Sort of. It was a distraction. It was a sidetrack from what we were what we thought we were gonna do. So if y'all remember, we had we started off with the first bike that Devin and I built was the Paragon. Well, if you're not familiar with the Paragon, you can look it up online. Look up Janice Paragon. Uh it's a 50cc moped with that was a kind of a cafe racer. And in 2011, when 2000, yeah, 2011, 2010, the years leading up to Janice's founding, was like kind of the height of the cafe racer resurgence. And that was the bike that we thought we were gonna make. It was the bike I was interested in. Everything I had built, all the mopeds that I had been making up to that point, trying to make them look like motorcycles, were cafe racers. And that concept of a a motorcycle that you home built, like a cafe, was it was it's like the European, the British version of the American bobber. Right. Right? So you take a stock bike and then you kind of make it look like a production or a um race bike. Right. That's what we thought we were gonna do. Um, but right around that time, I started taking my interest in motorcycles and and applying to looking at the history of the bikes and looking back at the everything that had come before. And I and I got really fascinated with um motorcycles before the 1950s and 60s. And there was actually a a custom motorcycle that came out, I want to say 2008 or 2009, and it was by a guy named Ian Barry. And Ian Barry built about four custom bikes. I don't know if he built any more after that. I haven't heard anything from him. A classic one-hit wonder. Oh, four-hit four-hit wonder. But boy were they hits. They were incredible bikes. They were before everybody was doing all this. Did he take them to shows or was he and they were very well publicized? He was he's pretty well connected. Okay. California-based, kind of a classic custom motorcycle builder. Um, but he made everything. I mean, he hand sculpted the all the parts. Um really beautiful bikes. But the first one of not the first one, but I think it was the first one. It was called the a Falcon Black, I think. Okay. I could be getting that wrong. But um it was a hardtail triumph. I think he used a newer pre-unit Triumph engine, but he hardtailed it and and it just looked like nothing that I was seeing in the chopper world or the cafe eraser world. It absolutely broke the mold. And it was black and it had gold pinstriping, and it had leather saddlebags. Right? And I was just I was blown away by the bike. I mean, I I just studied it, the pictures, and I just looked at everything I could possibly find. And I thought, well, what if instead of doing a caver? What if we did a hard tail? It'd be easier, right? We wouldn't have to do rear suspension, right? Devin? It's about the engineering problems we wouldn't have to overcome it. Um, and we had some experience with hard tailed mopeds, uh-huh. Um, even though most mopeds have a suspension. Right. And so that's kind of the birth of the halcyon was this idea of a bike that would look further back. And it was really something that came out of a my personal appreciation of history. Yeah. At the same time, Devin wanted to do the the Paragon 2.0, uh-huh, which would be the Phoenix. Right. But we got so we originally our goal was to come out with the Phoenix and the Halcyon simultaneously. At the same time. At the same time. Okay. But the with the 50 CCE, we never got to it. Interesting. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So I mean, you you said you you looked at all these like older motorcycles before 1950s and 1960s. What was like the biggest draw for you, like visually, that you're that made you go, I want to, I want to made a make a motorcycle.

SPEAKER_01

Well, there's something about a cafe racer, and you all know what I mean by cafe racer, right? Like think about an uh uh uh the ultimate cafe racer I would describe as the trident, which is a Norton featherbed frame with a triumph engine instead of the Norton engine. So it's kind of this amalgamation of the best. But what you ended up with, especially in well, let's just say maybe even if you go to like the production Norton Manx, which was the what what the featherbed was launched with, which which made the featherbed or the Manx so successful at the Isle of Man. Um, and you find an absolutely beautiful machine. It's yeah, it's almost perfect. Yeah. It's just everything lines up. And but but then I started looking at like sunbeams and rudges and early triumphs, and then this motorcycle called a bruff superior. And I realized that for me, basically looked more like what a motorcycle should look like than anything I'd ever seen. It was just like it was like the in in architecture, we have some like you know, the the classical tradition, which is what I studied. And they're like a arc. That's like it's like a classical order. It's like when when it's really well done, uh-huh, it a it embodies like an example of the greatest examples of what's been before it's and it just fits. It's used as reference often. It's used as reference, and everything is kind of like aiming at this thing. Yeah. And something about these motor early motorcycles did that for me. And I thought, well, nothing about these early motorcycles is necessarily antiquated other than that the the engines that they were using were and the suspension systems were, you know, different. But like, why don't modern motorcycles look like this? Yeah. Yeah. And I I think I've I've still haven't found the answer to that.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, that's the the quite because I don't understand why. So what the what I'm hearing is like the the question asks is like why why did we move away from this styling?

SPEAKER_01

Is that well, I mean it's not it's more than styling. I think it's the way that the that they embod it the whole thing fits. And early on, I I described it as the form and the function match. Like you can see what's happening, and what's what you see is what's it's what's there.

SPEAKER_00

It's it's what's there, yeah. It's necessary. Yeah, I think about the the handlebars.

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SPEAKER_00

As like the fur when when I'm hearing you talk about this, I think about how the handlebars are kind of like the beach bars at the the swoop, right? Like it feels very natural for your hands to go right there.

SPEAKER_01

Well, if you imagine if you did a study of motorcycle ergonomics, there are many modern motorcycles that have the same ergonomics, they just don't look like that. Right. If you do a triangle of foot peg seat, handle, you know, handle that's fair. Yeah, it probably comes out to the same proportions. Uh-huh. And probably some of those early motorcycles really had terrible ergonomics.

SPEAKER_00

Right. Well, you're right here. Could you imagine trying to steer a motorcycle?

Name Myth And Design DNA

SPEAKER_01

But um, overall, I think motorcycles do need to look a certain way. Yeah. And they also need to handle a certain way. And we got lucky, I think. We got really lucky. So that that was kind of the origin. And then we wanted to come up with a name, and Halcyon is um named after the Greek myth of Alcyone, who is a um mythical figure who a um it's a long story, but she weeps over times past. That's the that's the short version of the myth. I won't go into the whole thing, but it's it's a really beautiful myth. Yeah, she ends up transforming into this mythical bird, which is a kingfisher. And today's the feather, but that's what halcyon is. Right. That's the feather. The feather. And all of our all of our models are mythical birds. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

But it started with the halcyon.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

That's cool. What do you think is like the biggest takeaway from uh we'll end with this the biggest takeaway from all these different iterations of the halcyon?

SPEAKER_01

I think the biggest thing is that we've worked very, very hard to maintain the language. I talk about it like the kind of like the DNA of the Halcyon concept throughout all the models. So if you look at a 450 and you look at a 50cc, you recognized language is exactly the same. We've just made it a little have a little more horsepower, yeah, have a little more ability to go faster, a little more weight, a little more suspension, um, and a little more technology, maybe um, electronic fuel ignition, uh electronic fuel injection, um, all that stuff.

SPEAKER_00

So well, that that's all we've got for you tonight. Uh, thank you so much for tuning in. Uh, this has been a great episode. Jason 412 says, great episode. Love history lessons. We're planning on keeping this kind of uh format for future episodes to talk about future models. Yep. Yep, whatever, whatever we kind of want. So um, again, thank you so much for watching, and we will see you next week for episode 124. Okay.

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