Ah, those Italians! Piaggio, parent company of Vespa, are promoting the idea that Vespa scooters have always been a very sexy mode of transportation. We previously noted their rather interesting Vespa LX magazine ads showing a female gymnast balancing herself atop a scooter in a somewhat unconventional pose. With their current Vespa “Still Sexy at [...]
April 2006
Some of you who were interested in the idea of a motorcycle design contest, here at The Kneeslider, mentioned you didn’t have any 3D software, after all, that stuff’s expensive. OK, I think most of us can afford free. That’s right, … FREE! SketchUp became a part of Google about a month ago. They have [...]
Bajaj Auto, the second largest motorcycle manufacturer in India is planning to produce a line of CNG/LPG powered motorcycles beginning this year. The motorcycles will actually be dual fuel capable and besides running on either CNG or LPG, they will also run on regular gasoline. Like the CLEVER concept we wrote about yesterday designed with [...]
Trikes with a difference, might be one way to describe these tilting three wheelers and they both deserve our serious attention. The BMW CLEVER (Compact Low Emission Vehicle for Urban Transport) concept vehicle and the Carver, produced by Carver Europe in the Netherlands, are two very similar vehicles built to answer essentially the same question, [...]
