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Curtiss Pushes the Electric Motorcycle Design Envelope

By Paul Crowe

While I was away, my inbox never slept and judging by the number of notices coming in for concept, pre-production or in-production electric motorcycles, you would think the end of fossil fuels had already arrived. The discussion of that possibility deserves a post all its own, but I thought I’d highlight a few of the latest rechargeable two wheelers, in no particular order, to … [Read more...]

Amazing Motorcycle Concepts From Lien Ying-Te

By Paul Crowe

Ducati leaning reverse trike concept by Lien Yong-Te

Concept motorcycles are everywhere, with easy access to CAD software and 3D rendering tools, now everyone is a designer, or so they like to believe, but every now and then a real CAD master offers up a few ideas that are just gorgeous. Lien Ying-Te is one of those masters and the concepts shown here are just a few of hundreds he's done that will blow you away. Fantastic skill, … [Read more...]

Vespa Scooters Re-imagined

By Paul Crowe

Vespa scooter re-imagined as a sport bike

What happens when a scooter designer dreams? After all, one scooter from year to year doesn't change much, but suppose one night, the designers, maybe after a night out, head back to the office, lock the doors on their studio and let the ideas flow. Who knows what might happen, you might get something like these. They're courtesy of Jennings Harley Davidson over in Leeds, so … [Read more...]

RK Concepts Bearing Cycle is Oddly Interesting

By Paul Crowe

RK Concepts bearing cycle from the side shows the huge ball bearing frame to advantage

If you're looking for visual interest in a custom motorcycle, the RK Concepts Bearing Cycle offers a lot of it. I noticed this bike for sale and can't remember seeing it before, though it's not the type of build I usually follow so that's not surprising, but it's kinda neat. The entire center frame of the bike is a large diameter functional ball bearing and the suspension is … [Read more...]

Yamaha OR2T 4 Wheel Leaning Motorcycle Concept

By Paul Crowe

Yamaha OR2T leaning 4 wheel motorcycle concept

If there was any doubt Yamaha is devoting engineering resources to the idea of leaning multi wheel vehicles, this should erase those thoughts, it's the OR2T, a 4 wheel leaning motorcycle concept, based on the Tesseract leaning 4 wheeler from 2007. It looks like a well developed test bed for finding out how it works on the road and getting feedback for further … [Read more...]

Toyota i-Road Leaning Electric Reverse Trike Concept

By Paul Crowe

Toyota i-Road leaning electric reverse trike concept

We've seen a number of leaning 3 wheelers on The Kneeslider, the factory rides like the Piaggio MP3, the now defunct Carver and the never produced Harley Davidson Penster along with home engineered examples like Jim Harrell's Harley TRT. But if Toyota decides to jump into the leaning 3 wheeler market, we may see a whole fleet of these little pod like trikes cruising through … [Read more...]

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