Peugeot built this as a concept car, but I would like to know what you think about this as I see it having two wheels and that is enough for me to post it on the motorcycle section of our site.
The Ozone concept comes as a solution for decreasing the emission levels that contribute in percentage of 33% (in US) to the greenhouse effect. It is powered by fuel cell that turn hydrogen into electricity so it is environmental-friendly and very efficient.
Here comes the interesting part: the entire body is embraced between two giant wheels that are individually powered by electric motors with fuel cells. This is what made me wonder about it being a car and the fact that it has only two seats, further increases my suspicions. Even so, the position is similar to the one in a car so we can’t contest that, but take a look at it! I don’t see an executive riding in this, but more a gadget addict that at some moment in his live visualized himself riding in what appears to be a colonizing vehicle for aliens.
Car or motorcycle, the concept is mind blowing though!
Cars especially made for those with disabilities are nothing out of the ordinary, but the American bike builder that broke all the possible rules has done it again, creating a trike especially for people who spend their lives in wheelchairs.
Starting from the idea that everybody should be able to benefit of the Boss Hoss V8 rumble, the innovative manufacturer practically transformed their trike. A lift was added as well as hand controls and that was enough to make handicapped people (...) >> read
I’ve always said, these so called educational institutes have held most people back.
Every time some one told me the had a degree in something, I found them limited in what they could achieve.
Think outside the Box.
The World energy crises is here, We need to use it and stop saying, "THE GOVERNMENT" We are our own government.
Inventor Steve Ryan from Auckland, New Zealand, is not a biochemist, his expertise is in financing. But he has developed process by which a stock Suzuki 350cc motorcycle can run on regular tap water (after it has been processed in his invention for approximately 20 minutes). His company, Biosfuel, is convinced that H2O is the power that will fuel the next commercial and industrial revolution. This New Zealand version of the 60 Minutes show aired October 2005 in Australia. American companies such as Aquygen with their HHO fuel project feel Steve is right on about water technology as well. Rumors have been flying around about a water-powered Hummer to be released in the near future. I wonder why so few people on this side of the world have heard about this possible alternative to $1.50 pump gas. The military knows about it, they have already contacted the inventor. He is already in fear he might disappear.
Claus Mess is from Germany and after doing a bet it ended up building this 3034cc motorcycle that he decided to call the HG3000.
It is definitely the strangest thing I’ve seen so far and if you take a closer look, you’ll notice that it is actually a trike, not a usual motorcycle.
The builder decided that it doesn’t require much investment so it put it together from bits and pieces of Volkswagen and Porsche, while the suspensions are made by BMW. What was I saying about investment? The guy must live next to a junkyard or something like that!
I don’t believe it is road legal, but it runs and it can definitely be ridden. The only major problem is most likely the level of vibrations which I can imagine being bone shaking.
When your kid is tired from riding that rubbish old motorcycle and begs you for a motor powered two-wheeled vehicle, preferably nicer than the one ridden by the neighbor’s child, this is what you come up to.
Using imagination and everything you’ve learned by watching the OCC guys in action, you’ll strip down the old fashioned bike, custom design and build a frame on which the 5 horsepower engine would find its place and, in order to remind him what he left behind, attach the bike’s front wheel to the also custom made forks.
Don’t lose a lot of time designing an impressive exhaust system (it won’t fit on the small bike, anyway), but make sure that you have it custom pained. In this case, Orange was the color of choice with blue flames.
Christmas is long away and the weather is perfect for riding so you won’t have any reason of keeping the thing away from the enthusiastic small rider. After all, it reaches more than 50 mph so it is a real blast, definitely better than what the neighbor has.
Fitted with pull levers for gas and brake, it is the easiest thing to ride, something you’ve wished to have when you were a small child with a thing or two in mind.
It is by now clear that the best commuting solution features two wheels as they are economic and occupy less space in today’s crowded cities, but we often find ourselves wondering what the future reserves for the continuously developing motorcycle market.
An answer to our questions came in the form of the Vincent Nero, a concept bike implementing features of early-days motorcycles which are refreshed and propelled into the future. For instance, there is the mid-size V-Twin engine – configuration that has been around ever since pioneers found out how to properly air-cool their constantly-heating engines, the spoked wheels and the Harley-type exhaust. The upright riding position is ideal for this kind of motorcycle and this also brings the massive, high tank and the imposing, futuristic forks.
Designed by students Ian Galvin and Craig Mackiew, the Vincent Nero opens up the gates to a new motorcycling era, especially now that gas prices are going nuts.
The Vincent Nero is designed both as a naked concept bike and a half-faired one so let’s just hope we’ll soon be put in the situation of choosing among the two.
Industrial designers and motorcycles; futuristic approach
Most motorcycle designs are collaborative projects, involving several people and functions. This means that most design style becomes, dare I say it, ’bland’. Everyone needs to agree on the look of the motorcycle, and as the saying goes, “you can’t please everyone all of the time”.
Most motorcycles that have that very special look were designed by small teams, often just one designer. That’s what makes the bike unique, since it’s the individual’s taste that has been added to the bike.
So if you let a single individual design a motorcycle from the ground up, and if that person is a talented industrial designer, the resulting motorcycle can be out of this world, literally!
Englishman, Dan Bailey, is such a talented designer. He took a Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle and used the image of the alien from the movie Alien
and created this master piece:
You’ve got to admit, it does look like the creature from the movie. The whole motorcycle is extremely streamlined and futuristic looking. The bike is called “Indian” Speed-racer and is meant for (future) races. The hub-less wheels are impressive to say the least.
The whole concept is very pleasing, and could very well be the way motorcycles look in the nearby future, but one question remains in my mind: how do you sit on the bike? Or more, where do you sit?
It seems that the giant Boss Hoss is by now out of fashion as the Revelation Motorcycle offers pretty much the same performance without disadvantages such as massiveness, heaviness and all the other stuff.
It manages to do that with the blend between a custom bike (looks) and super sport performance (Hayabusa engine). There hasn’t been seen something like this, except on the drag track, but Wayne Ransom hand-builds these things so that they are road legal and the concept has already started to become popular.
Famous custom bike builders can’t stop wondering how a 26-year-old outdone their creations, but in my opinion this was the shortest trip from idea to pure success.
The most adequate alternative to a full-face helmet is, strangely, not an open face one, but a protective shield added to your motorcycle’s fairing.
Invented by David Fermil, the ingenious accessory bolts perfectly on to the fairing with the nuts and bolts that are already on the bike from when it got out the production line.
The advantages of such an addition to your sport bike’s aerodynamic functions are practically infinite as you no longer have to lurk under the small (...) >> read
Getting tired of big V-Twins and custom bikes, Michael Sturtz decided that it was time to build a BioDiesel motorcycle which if it was to go into production (something that didn’t happened so far) it would be against the Boss Hoss.
They’ve taken a BMW car engine, adapted it on the custom made frame, heavily tested it for balance and safety until being “dressed” nicely and taken to the Bonneville Salt Flats where it managed to push it as high as 130.614 mph.
The future looks bright for the innovative team and for the entire motorcycle market, as well.
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