Oberdan Bezzi seems to have a desire to repower motorcycles with Royal Enfield’s new engine. We saw his Bullet Sport last year where he put the single into a Honda design concept, this time he’s taken the 500cc single and fitted it into a Wakan in place of the S&S 1640cc V-Twin, the result is [...]
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Concept Motorcycles
Matthew Perez, a Mechanical Operations Technician for the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, sent me some details of a design he’s working on, he was a little tired of seeing only electric motorcycles when someone mentioned alternative fuels and he thought he would come up with something that would carry him back and forth to work, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
