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British YouTuber James Bruton has plenty of experience with self-balancing technology and omnidirectional wheels, having already built a self-balancing bicycle using a sideways-mounted omni-wheel, as well as a heap of self-stabilizing robot projects.Co… Continue reading Video: Self-balancing omnidirectional motorcycle spins, slides and glides
One of the more fascinating start-ups we’ve seen in a long time is Oruga and it’s rather unique single-track all-terrain-vehicle. Indeed, you will NOT have seen one of these before. There are three wheels with massive balloon tires inside a proprietary… Continue reading 3-wheel tank-track motorcycle crawls over the most brutal terrain
For fans of the iconic anime Akira, there’s only one way to traverse the mean streets of post-apocalyptic neo-Tokyo, and that’s the futuristic mount of motorcycle gang leader Shôtarô Kaneda. …read more Continue reading Shôtarô Kaneda’s Motorcycle, For Real
“This thing’s gonna be a chungus!” In the northern tip of Idaho, 70-odd miles from Spokane, Washington, a magnificently silly project is underway: a colossal batpod of a motorcycle with a KTM motor, monster truck wheels, and hydraulic steering.Continue… Continue reading KTM-powered “Monster Chopper” gets hydraulic steering
MIT’s Electric Vehicle Team has taken to the racetrack with a Ducati 900SS that’s been gutted and converted into a hydrogen fuel cell motorcycle, hoping to start collecting a few fossil-fuelled scalps. It’s also open-sourcing the design for others.Cont… Continue reading MIT’s EV team takes its open-source hydrogen motorcycle to the track
Kawasaki is doing some fascinating work toward decarbonizing motorcycles. After launching the world’s first hybrid streetbike in the Ninja 7 Hybrid, it’s now built a supercharged, zero-emissions, hydrogen-powered Ninja H2 SX. An H2 H2, if you will.Cont… Continue reading Kawasaki has built a hydrogen-powered, supercharged Ninja H2 SX
Two wheels, a motor, a seat, some handlebars and some footrests: put ’em in one arrangement, and you’ve got a sportsbike. In another, a cruiser. Or an adventure machine. Or a commuter. Why not a single, shape-shifting architecture that does it all?Cont… Continue reading Ziggymoto perfectly illustrates the shape-shifting motorcycle idea
Two wheels, a motor, a seat, some handlebars and some footrests: put ’em in one arrangement, and you’ve got a sportsbike. In another, a cruiser. Or an adventure machine. Or a commuter. Why not a single, shape-shifting architecture that does it all?Cont… Continue reading Ziggymoto perfectly illustrates the shape-shifting motorcycle idea
One of the most magnificent and terrifying steeds in motorcycledom gets its second major overhaul for 2024. The new KTM 1390 Super Duke R gets a bigger motor, a bigger tank, semi-active suspension and a savagely alien new headlight design.Continue Read… Continue reading KTM’s Beast 3.0 naked tarmac ripper evolves in an alien direction
Bimota has a whole new design for its wacky hub-steered front end, nearly doubling the steering range, and it’s celebrating this achievement with one of the strangest production motorcycles of the year: a 200-horsepower supercharged adventure bike.Cont… Continue reading Bimota gets weird with hub-steered, supercharged adventure tourer