What did you do on or to your other bike part 2

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I wonder why one has to cover a battery just because one is used to not seeing it?
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Batteries are a new technology and this results in a different design. ; up until now, batteries have been cuboid in shape.
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Especially air-cooled engines are also completely uncovered....

well............aerodynamics could possibly be an argument.....yes...

It's just a visual thing for me...I like to see "a flow" to a bike, from front to back, as if the wind sculptured the bike.  The 90 degree angle doesn't have to be there, the corner could be rounded, providing a smoother look.  It doesn't affect anything else; except...people do talk about the "lines" of objects...for some reason a given look to something appeals to one person more than another.  

A similar thing happens to me when I see 2" thick, big square radiators on bikes.  For me they don't look right on a motorcycle, and I've consciously decided not to buy certain bikes because of them.  And it's something that can be made to "look better" (granted, a very subjective term).  For example, an air cooled KZ900 Z1 from the early 70s: the exhaust lines sweep back, no radiator--nice flowy look.


Kawasaki produces a modern "retro" Z900RS, and now it has a radiator...thick, square...and Ug!  "Ugly" in my book:
 

I can't look past the radiator--it's the very first thing I notice when I look at the bike.  

So do all radiator bikes have to have a square radiator?  Triumph came up with a much more pleasing to the eye look, although the logistics of a parralel twin provide space for a this different look.  Their T120: 


It's a thinner radiator, about 1.25" thick, and it's rectactular shape is darkened and placed between the two exhausts and follows the down tubes.  When I look at the T120 (and Triumph does this for a number of their bikes), the things I notice are the headers, the tank, the side cases--what I expect to notice.  And that radiator virtually disappears when viewed from the side: 


So at some point Triumph decided that the radiator look could be improved--it didn't have to be thick and square--the bike could be made to look to have more flow to it.  I think the result is fantastic, and I'd love to have a T-120.   

And that's my point with the squared-off look the electric bike--the harsh lines of the battery could at least be hidden.  

I suppose this is another reason why I like the CB1100, the w800, the RE650...all air cooled.