Now this is nice, the Moto Guzzi V12 Concept. I’m partial to Guzzis to begin with but this really looks good. A Pierre Terblanche design, it has some interesting ideas, I’m not sure about that flip down setup below the engine, and the body flips up. An 8 valve 1200cc V Twin provides power. It [...]
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Concept Motorcycles
BMW joins the ranks of companies that have offered an inline 6 by installing one in the Concept 6, a design exercise unveiled at EICMA. Though BMW has a long history of inline sixes in their cars, dropping one in a bike is a bit more work if you’re interested in keeping the weight [...]
Suppose you had an engine from a Subaru WRX and suppose further, you wanted to build a motorcycle, what would it look like? Ian McElroy was thinking about just that and started putting his ideas into Solidworks to see what he could do. One minor problem, though, Ian didn’t know how to use Solidworks, so [...]
With the first TTXGP completed and the eGrandPrix about to get under way, we’ll likely see many designs surfacing for electric racing motorcycles. Luca Bar, who we’ve seen here before, sent over this one of his E-Carver.
The design mounts a 130/65-16 tire up front and a 190/55-18 on the rear wheel that has a hub [...]
Now that Royal Enfield has a new engine for their new Bullet, Oberdan Bezzi thought, why not work up a sport version? Although Royal Enfield has long had a cafe racer kit to spiff up their old Bullet, the 500cc thumper was never what most of us would call a sporty engine, simple and reliable, [...]
Piers Prendergast, a 2009 graduate of Transport Design at Coventry University, sent me these images of his final year project. It’s a fuel cell motorcycle concept with hubless wheels which are kind of unique:
The hubless wheels work though a fixed inner rim and a rotating outer rim that spins on internal bearings. The concept doesn’t [...]
BMW wants to know what you’re thinking. First, they brought out the LoRider Concept and put up a survey to see what you thought about it, which is a good way to generate feedback in the most direct fashion, “Here it is, what do you think?” Now, they have an innovation contest and they’re looking [...]
Let’s toss aside the range and recharge issues common to any electric motorcycle discussions and focus, instead, on design. The sometimes futuristic or overly utilitarian appearance of a lot of electric bikes leaves many of us cold. If you don’t like the George Jetson look, you’re out of luck and that’s why this design caught [...]
Kickboxer Subaru WRX Powered Motorcycle Concept
