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Moto Guzzi V7 Cafe Sport – Would You Like a Fairing with Your Cafe?

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An unmistakable part of the cafe racer style is a fairing, nothing quite as confining and all enclosing like found on the average sport bike, but more minimal and sleek. Moto Guzzi, by introducing their V7 Classic and V7 Cafe, provided a perfect platform for just such an addition and quite a few owners were looking to bolt one up, if they could just find one. If you're one of … [Read more...]

BOTT XR-1 Progress Continues with Chassis Design

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David Sánchez sent me an update on the BOTT XR-1 project. The chassis design is finished, they've built the jig and they're beginning to weld the first unit. Because of the positive response to their initial renderings, they have decided to go ahead with the creation of a kit so you'll be able to take a Buell XB and transform it into your very own BOTT XR-1. The frame was … [Read more...]

Oberdan Bezzi Does a McDeeb Hurricane

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We're big fans of the McDeeb Royal Enfield conversions and it looks like their transformations have sparked a few ideas in the mind of Oberdan Bezzi as well. I see he's taken the concept and created a mashup of a Triumph Hurricane with Royal Enfield power, he calls it the McDeeb American Roadster. In fact, he's done a whole series of McDeeb inspired Royal Enfield designs, but … [Read more...]

Sora – an Electric Street Fighter from Lito Green Motion

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Another new prototype electric motorcycle is taking shape and, according to the company, will debut at the Montreal F1 Grand Prix on June 12th. It's called the Sora and combines, in the company's words, the best design elements of Bobber and Café Racer/Street Fighter. It does look pretty good and if the actual performance matches the look, they'll have an impressive … [Read more...]

Uno 3 – No Movies – This Transformer is Real

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We wrote up the Uno for the first time back in 2008, then again in 2009. It started out as a high school project where Benjamin Gulak put together an electric motorcycle with parallel wheels, moving forward and backward like a Segway. It was a pretty neat project for a high school student, but it probably wasn't going anywhere commercially. Ben took his project to stage … [Read more...]

Electro Scrambler by Luca Bar

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Luca Bar is back with a new, but very vintage, design, this time for an electric scrambler. He designed the Electro Scrambler to look like a retro off roader, something you might have seen forty years ago with a name like Triumph or BSA on the tank. This one has the advantage of 2 wheel drive, something easy to do with an electric since hub motors need no mechanical drive, just … [Read more...]