When we last looked in on John Tangerås, he showed us the beginnings of his T900 project with lots of 3D printed parts for fitting and mold making plus some initial machining. He’s been working steadily, but anything of this magnitude and complexity takes a lot of time. He’s continuing his engine work with the [...]
Motorcycle Design
As technology accelerates, some of the most amazing things are taken in stride as quite normal. Arthur C. Clarke’s famous quote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” is still true, but these days it’s harder to advance far enough to induce those magical feelings. Design an object and print it out in 3D [...]
Oberdan Bezzi’s most recent work shows a few variations on the Bimota theme and this one seems interesting, it’s another possible mount for Harley Davidson’s Revolution V-Twin, he calls it the HDB-2 Sport Roadster. Highly doubtful either the Motor Company or Bimota would go for a design like this, it doesn’t fit the accepted ideas [...]
Steve Pritchard started a company called Mo2or (how do you pronounce that?), with the goal of creating a motorcycle based on rider input. You fill out a form on their website answering questions about what you consider your ideal bike, engine size, frame type, body, seat, etc. and after they gather input for a while, [...]
