Concept Bikes

Frog’s Ultra-Cool Vision For What Electric Motorcycles Can Be

FROG’S LAST MOTORCYCLE CONCEPT CHANGED THE WORLD FOR THREE DECADES. NOW THEY’VE RELEASED THEIR NEXT.

If you know about Frog, and you think about their work in the '80s, it was synonymous with Apple--they were the ones who designed the cases for the Apple IIc and the first Macintoshes, not to mention Apple’s first tablet concept. But they were also busy dreaming up the future elsewhere. In 1985, Frog founder Hartmut Esslinger imagined a motorcycle that, while never put into production, would rock the motorcycle world and serve as a key bridge in the rise of crotch rocket aesthetic. READ ON

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Fast Codesign

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An environmentally friendly motorcycle springing from the sands of excess-happy Las Vegas? It’s true

Chris Bell’s Brutus2 motorcycle is wide, black and low-slung, the kind of bike you could imagine being ridden by someone in leather and chains.

It’s heavy metal thunder on wheels, except for one thing.

There’s no thunder. READ ON

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Vegas Inc

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Ducati Bellevue Reveals – Ducati Hyper Explorer 796 Adventure Bike

Due to be unveiled at the EuroMoto 2012 Motorcycle Show at the Lynnwood Convention Center on March 3-4, 2012 Ducati Bellevue has executed a concept thatOWD toyed with a couple years back. What if you took the Ducati Hypermotard and transformed it into an adventure bike? Thus the Redmond, Washington shop, seeing a niche in the Ducati market that the flying-D and other’s have missed, has produced a mid-sized Ducati adventurer and made it available to the public. READ ON

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Young designers' Speed Twin concept

This concept café racer doesn't come from Triumph's deservedly famous in-house design studio, and it's not the work of a custom bike builder. Concept Bike

It's a project by two young English designers, Roy Norton and Tom Kasher, based on the Triumph Bonneville - and that's a story by itself.

Norton and Kasher came up with the idea - and the first sketches - for “a bike taking retro themes in a modern direction” during their final term at Northumbria University; it was actually their thesis project, and the final renderings were good enough to land them an internship at the Xenophya motorcycle design studio.