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Wakan 500 Superlight by Oberdan Bezzi

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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 the Wakan 500 Superlight. I really like the Wakan 1640 and Oberdan's Photoshop … [Read more...]

AirHead – Air Powered Motorcycle Design Concept

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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, a trip of 10 miles each way so he … [Read more...]

Moto Guzzi V12 Concept

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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 looks like there are a couple of different variations to the body style, even a super … [Read more...]

BMW Concept 6 – 1600cc Inline 6 Cylinder Engine

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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 size down to manageable levels. Hollow-bore camshafts and very light connecting rods plus … [Read more...]

Kickboxer – Subaru WRX Powered Motorcycle Concept

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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 he set about the task of learning the software as he went, taking his ideas … [Read more...]

E-Carver Electric Motorcycle Concept from Luca Bar

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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 mounted motor. The riding position is nearly horizontal with … [Read more...]