Final Fantasy VII: Cloud's Bike

[Shurrikhan]

Motorbikes and mentioning FF8...

I kind of want the bikes used by the Galbadian Army in FF8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5lQiOaVAEE

While a flying motorbike would be silly, a rocket powered jump in it's place might work for most cases...

Got a self-propelled vehicle? Want extra propulsion? So long as you have both parts, the combination doesn't seem to ridiculous if used in the right places.

While I doubt that would get much opportunity in this coming expansion, I would certainly appreciate more appearances of technology alike to the colorful and situationally believable style of FFVIII and FFX's. I'd prefer to avoid carbon copies unless the scenario they're introduced in intends to be a homage as well, though.

[Bacent]

I really hope we don't get Cloud's Bike. There's enough cloud wannabes out there, as well as it potentially making an annoying sound around everyone else.

[Domeric]

Bandannas?! Ruffled, pointy hair with a ponytail?! Surely this is from a world too technologically advanced not to cause an all-consuming black hole if entered into our own!

Lightning's sword is hightech as all get out.

[Enkidoh]

Other than cogs and the occasional broken carriage i can not think of one item, mount or such that has wheels in eorzea. The caravans use ballons and float. Most mechanical things skip the wheel phase and go straight to flying. NPC's make fun of the idea of bicycles.

There is a reason for that - there are no actual sealed, permanent roads in Eorzea, roads are little more than dirt tracks or thin trails of broken cobblestones if you're lucky, so any wheeled vehicle like Cloud's motorcycle would be bound to get bogged down in the dirt as soon as it tried heading out (this is why the chocobo carriages don't have wheels but are suspended above the ground by balloons which the chocobos just tow along). Hells, this is also the reason why chocobos are stated as being superior to horses in Eorzea, chocobos are just better suited to the rough broken terrain than hoofed animals like horses.

And the clincher, how is Cloud's bike even going to be powered? The AC bike runs on petrol - there are no oil refineries in Eorzea. Other mechanical mounts at least have explanations about how they're powered (manacutter draws wind aetherial energy from the environment, the magitek armour would be fueled by cereleum, and Azeyma only knows how the Allagan nodes are powered).

Cloud's bike just does not fit Eorzea, no matter how much you try to rationalize it. Eorzea is a land that is still in a late medieval/age of exploration/Renaissance period that is just on the cusp of an Industrial revolution - Cloud's bike is just too futuristic (remember, Eorzea still uses wooden sailing ships as it's primary form of ocean transport, and most land transport is still done by pack mule and animal labour). No, it just would not fit.

[MaethusXion]

if they add this kind of mount i hope we will be able to craft it and customiz it, colors, options, accessories etc

They won't even give us more character customization options besides a few new hairstyles every 3rd patch or so. You really think that a mount is going to get more than a paintjob?

[Vanitas]

Don't mind the garlean's nigh hyper advanced Ceruleum powered technology which includes the Agrius, the most powerful airship the realm had ever seen to date 15 years prior to current events in this "medevil" era.
The very existence of the garlean empire and their tech throws the whole "it won't fit cuz medevil" idea out the window.
Listen people, It can be garlean. It can be magitek. It can be Ceruleum powered. Boom.

[Soge01]

We have Cloud's outfit, so why not make his bike and Buster Sword or his other sword a new veteran reward? I mean, it's not going to hurt anybody if added and would help those who wanted to make a complete copy of Cloud's look really happy. Plus it could be used as a promotion for FFVIII's remake, too. So wouldn't it make it possible for it to be added in FFXIV; it'd be a great way to promote another FF game plus it'd make FFXIV AND FFVII Remak more money!

[AlphaFox]

I am still for SOME kind of bike, I don't care if its Cloud's or not. Hover bike would even work for me, but with an increased speed they certainly can't use how fast were going as an excuse unless they wanna pull the whole "Why would a Motorcycle be the same speed as a Turtle?" To which I reply, why is a Coerul the same speed as a Turtle or Behemoth.

[Shurrikhan]

Lightning's sword is hightech as all get out.

My apologies; I'd forgotten about the weapons as I've yet to see a single person glamour them since their release week.

[Shougun]

I bet the Garleans could come up with something, I mean even in their temp outposts they were building roads.. wheels in their settled areas might actually be a thing - since I imagine full on roads there. And their quick build style is not the same as their homely/native territory, so we may be introduced to smoother / sleek designs from them. The bike definitely is out of element in our area of the land, but it might not always be that way (would work alright in large plain lands for example- or area with road lol).

If Gridania made the bike of course it would be like whaaaaat? But I don't see the bike breaking any sort of technological lore if made outside of our area (not our people's lol).