Comments on: Motorcycle Design Competitions

By: kneeslider

kneeslider — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:57:35 +0000

Glynn,

Very nice of you to stop by. I was waiting to see what kind of response we had before putting a lot of time into setting this up. The second post on this topic started to bring out a few contenders and if you will offer coverage then this will be a definite go.

I will be setting up rules and other criteria soon. This will be interesting and I hope we see a lot of entries.

By: aaron

aaron — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 01:52:41 +0000

crap.

so much for me fighting the locals for a scrap of attention in a small pond.

looks like he might send a few ringers our way…two of Glynn’s bikes (the voxan/boxer sportbike and voxan scrambler) would show up on any list I made of “favorite bike designs” unless I was working with a really short list. the midual was very cool too, I was sad that never appeared in volume production.

By: Glynn

Glynn — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:31:00 +0000

I’d have to disagree with you on the lack of bike design competitions. In fact, if anything, I’d have to say that there have perhaps been too many recently!

We at the Motorcycle Design Association (www.motorcycledesign.com) were planning to hold one a couple of years ago, but backed down when it became clear that we’d be clashing with the Munich Intermot’s own competition, held in October 2004. I understand that the Köln IFMA will be running something similar at this year’s event, which replaces Munich for 2006. Then of course, there was the big Ducati competition a year or two ago, which was plastered all over the world’s biking and design press. Another came through MV Agusta, plus a whole bunch more. Can’t really see how all that lot got overlooked. But yes, why not a Kneeslider competition too? We’ll happily cover you on the MDA website.

Cheers,

Glynn Kerr, President
The Motorcycle Design Association

By: hoyt

hoyt — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:57:08 +0000

what if the Kneeslider had a design competition online?

By: Prester John

Prester John — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:51:06 +0000

I remember back in the late 1970s the SAE “Mini-Baja” engineering student competitions. The Japanese motorcycle companies’ ATVs of the time where three wheelers, and the creative, clean-sheet-of-paper student vehicles were nearly all four wheelers. At the regional competitons there would be polite, well dressed Japanese men with big Nikon cameras. By the mid-1980s, the majors’ ATVs were adding a fourth wheel as well.

Design competitons. Yep.

Tom