Concept Motorcycles

Wakan 500 Superlight by Oberdan Bezzi

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 1/29/2010

in Concept Motorcycles, Motorcycle Design

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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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, [...]

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Moto Guzzi V12 Concept

by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider" on 11/10/2009

in Concept Motorcycles, Motorcycle Design

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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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 and [...]

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