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Bodystyle | Naked |
Warranty | 24 months |
Manufacturer Country | Italy |
Introduction Year | 2009 |
Displacement (cc) | 749.9 |
Engine Type | V Twin |
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Bodystyle | Naked |
Warranty | 24 months |
Manufacturer Country | Italy |
Introduction Year | 2009 |
Displacement (cc) | 749.9 |
Engine Type | V Twin |
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Bodystyle | Sport |
Warranty | 24 months |
Manufacturer Country | Italy |
Introduction Year | 2010 |
Displacement (cc) | 999.6 |
Engine Type | V4 |
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Bodystyle | Sport |
Warranty | 24 months |
Manufacturer Country | Italy |
Introduction Year | 2010 |
Displacement (cc) | 999.6 |
Engine Type | V4 |
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Bodystyle | Sport |
Warranty | 24 months |
Manufacturer Country | Italy |
Introduction Year | N/A |
Displacement (cc) | 997.6 |
Engine Type | V Twin |
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Bodystyle | Sport |
Warranty | 24 months |
Manufacturer Country | Italy |
Introduction Year | N/A |
Displacement (cc) | 997.6 |
Engine Type | V Twin |
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Professional-grade speed and writing skills to match, Executive Editor Steve Atlas is the leader of the new blood at MotoUSA. Atlas has AMA racing creds that are even more extensive than his driving record.
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TCD has been working in the design arena for over 20 years. Aside from supplying original concepts and 3D modelled vehicles and props appearing in television advertisements, music videos, pilots and feature films, we also create superb print-quality illustrations and graphics by application of the same cutting edge 3D computer technology.
An exciting sphere of operations for TCD is in the field of product design and in particular, motorcycle design. As one of Australia's leading motorcycle design consultants, we are long-term members of the Motorcycle Designers Association (MDA).
We're ready right now for your next advanced design project, so please get in touch. Email us at: tcdesign@talent.com.au
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A major design project I have been working on for about a year, in conjunction with Sydney-based insurance research organisation, the IAG Technical Research Centre. This organisation has been looking closely into ways to make motorcycles safer as well as cheaper to repair in the event of a simple tip over, and asked me for some design input, which lead to the 'Swann Insurance Motorcycle of the Future' design.
I wanted to make the concept of such a motorcycle as practical as possible, with a minimum impact on the visuals. I believe you would be hard pressed to spot the various design features without them being pointed out.
I coined a term 'Ablative Design' to describe the idea of cheap, 'sacrificial' components being used in areas susceptible to tip over damage. Think of a $30 alloy cover bearing the brunt of a simple fall off the sidestand, instead of your $2,000 muffler. Simple really. 'Ablative' comes from the old Apollo space program, where it was used to describe the heat shield that was itself destroyed whilst protecting the crew from the dangers of re-entry.
The concept also grew to include the latest ideas in electronics, in the form of ABS, Stability Control,Proximity warning and programmable cruise control.
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We are currently engaged in a general makeover of the website. We're adding a lot of background details, concept sketches
and other bits and pieces from the archives. Work will be ongoing for the next couple of months, so feel free to stop
by week to week as new items are added.
The V-Rex received an Honourable Mention for 'Best Eccentric' in motorcycle.com's 'Best of 2009' Awards!
My focus as a designer was packaging all this technology in a fairly 'standard' looking design rather than anything as outlandish as the current crop of hybrid concept bikes. I chose the British cafe racer as a source of some lines (you can see a little Norton Commando in the ducktail) and I thought it would be fun to blend some older lines with brand new technology. There is a page for it in the gallery HERE, and you can contact me for a press release and high res print-ready images as well, via email
There are TWO V-Rexes (Rexii?) currently to be seen at the massive SEMA show in Las Vegas, one on the K&N stand and the other with the gents at Prospray.
Other V-Rex highlights include confirmation of where and when the V-Rex makes its movie debut in 2009!
On slightly disrelated other news, 'Wired' featuring my 'space fighter' design in their on-line gallery.
Siggraph! Who's that up on the screen?
Hollywood star Paul Walker looking mighty cool on a V-Rex.
The bike is also making an appearance in LA at the massive and awesome Siggraph conference. Newtek, the makers of the software I used to design and build the original 3D concept, will have a 'real ' V-Rex on their stand for the week, as well as a video interview with yours truly explaining the finer points of the design process.
I have finally gotten round to rendering a short 'demo reel' featuring some of my designs in quicktime format. You can download it HERE.
Also there is a series of articles appearing in 3D World magazine which trace the development in diary form of the V-Rex from my original idea and sketch all the way to rolling down the streets of the U.S.
I am also working on some car designs which will be added to the gallery shortly.
There are more new designs on the way, including our first hybrid.
Vids vids vids! Clips of the V-Rex are all over the web. It looks GOOD in motion!
Click on these images below to see some of them.
If Angelina Jolie strolled down Main Street naked, perhaps with her hair on fire, she might come close to attracting the amount of attention the Travertson V-REX does. - Kevin Duke
I'll add links to the various other stories as they appear.
Huge media launch here in Sydney for a major design project I have been working on for about a year, in conjunction with Sydney-based research organisation, the IAG Technical Research Centre. This organisation has been looking closely into ways to make motorcycles safer as well as cheaper to repair in the event of a simple tip over, and asked me for some input, which lead to the 'Swann Insurance Motorcycle of the Future' design coming about.
The media launch was kicked off by our very own Aussie motorcycle racing star Casey Stoner, currently leading the pack in the MotoGP series, who unveiled large images of the design, which features a virtual 'wish list' of items designed to make motorcycles both safer and cheaper to insure.
A HUGE story has just appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald sparked by this launch, featuring nice big images of the design. The story is up online currently here
In early August there is going to be a major media launch involving a motorcycle design I have penned in conjunction with the IAG Research Laboratory here in Sydney. This motorcycle is being used to highlight some deficiencies in current motorcycle design as regards ease of damageability and cost of repair. More details will be added as the launch grows closer.
Also, starting to become a topic is something I have been working on in liaison with staff from the IAG Research Laboratory here in Sydney, Australia. Serious in-depth research is currently underway into ways that motorcycle design can be improved as regards the expense of damage ocurring after a simple 'drop'.
With horror stories of bikes being 'written off' by insurance companies after simply rolling off the sidestand, there's plenty to be done. I believe this problem can be successfully tackled at the design stage without affecting the 'looks' of the bike very much, if at all. It would be no fun if your bike looked like a battleship just so that you could insure it!
I will be setting up an entire page on this website to go into this subject much more in-depth. For now , here is a link to IAG's website on the topic, complete with QuickTime movies.
Oh and I started building Skeletor, my original thumper design from a few years ago. See here for more info.
Some stories are starting to appear about the bike. This week Ozbike magazine in Australia features the bike on the cover and in an 8 page centrefold pictorial. A french magazine called "maximoto' has also done a rather nice feature as well.
Bit of a roundup from Daytona. First off the bike won its class at the Daytona Beach Boardwalk Bike Show and Christian has a HUGE trophy for the mantlepiece! The bike was also entered in the world famous 'Rat's Hole Bike Show' somewhat reluctantly as Christian explained that the V-Rex is NOT a one-off custom bike, it's a PRODUCTION bike, but, according to Christian, they wouldn't take 'no' for an answer, and so for possibly the first time in history, a production bike placed in the TOP TEN out of 150 entries at this prestigeous show!
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The sum of 60 thousand dollars sounds solidly and for today, not to mention the beginning 90. And after all, revolutionary motorcycle Honda NR750 which has appeared in 1992 code-named RC40, stuffed with the latest technologies of those times, cost so much.
Road version of bike Honda NR750, successor VFR750R RC30 and NR500, has been let out in number of only 200 copies. Application of oval pistons and 8 valves on the cylinder along with the V-shaped four-cylinder engine was the most interesting technology used in this series-. Even after so much years only Honda can brag of this achievement.
Motor-magazine SuperStreetBike has prepared the version of a motorcycle which can become worthy "son" for legendary repeated winners of motorcycle races of Grand prix and a receptacle of modern operating time. What would you tell about occurrence of the accessible powerful device with V4 the engine with application of oval pistons? - Give me two!
SuperStreetBike Motor-magazine SuperStreetBike has offered the design for NR800 and has painted a technical component to come nearer to a reality.
Engine
Though it is primary NR gave out only"125 h.p., from 800 quite probably to squeeze out all 150. For example, having established injection system PGM with 46мм a throttle, as on Honda 1000RR 2008.
Chassis
In variant of SuperStreetBike, a motorcycle is equipped with frame R6 (approached in the sizes to CBR600RR), and modifed stretcher GSX-R that it perfectly held engine V4. Wheels and brakes are borrowed at Ducati, and an adjustable back suspension bracket - from latest models Suzuki GSX-R. In a motorcycle air lines for competent colling of the engine are thought over. The weight, by the way, thanks to all a shift, should be considerably lowered.
Rest
Original NR it is well-known iridian for a windscreen and the case from a carbon fibre. The variant from SuperStreetBike is more viable - carbon here less, and a windscreen - tonned from Lockhart Phillips. Sitting - that are established on Yamaha and Aprilia RSV4 are similar. Rear-view mirrors - are taken without alterations from model 1000RR.
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Company EFC represents a set of accessories from carbon for maxiscooters Yamaha T-Max 500.
EFC does a ruler of accessories for Yamaha already for a long time, company production hills all models T-Max 500 since 2000. Last motor-days in Rome the company presented the last workings out for T-Mah 2008-2009 modelling years.
So, in particular, the forward lattice (the price in 160 euros) is offered to buyers carbon. The similar accessory for models till 2007 costs 126 euros. It is possible to buy also carbon overlays on handles on 20 euros, carbon supports for feet of the passenger for 85,8 euros, an overlay on the panel of devices for 94,8 euros, and other elements of tuning.
All accessories meaning not additional installation, and replacement of original details themselves, vary as much as possible simply and without necessity of entering of any completions or changes into a design.
The Italian company EFConsulting (EFC), having a wide experience in the field of sport tuning, c offers 2006 a wide choice of accessories for motorcycles. In the basic list of production EFC – accessories for motorcycles Kawasaki ZX-10R, Z750 and scooters Yamaha T-Max.
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The Japanese concern Kawasaki has let out the limited series of the popular superbikes of model Ninja ZX-10R in black-and-white execution.
Car will be offered only in the market of one country – Germany, and thus in the extremely limited quantity – all such here black-and-white ZX-10R 50 copies are let out.
The version of flagman "ninja" with dominating white colour of the case will cost for 345 euros more expensively, than standard. Thus, if the German price on Kawasaki ZX-10R makes 13 645 euros price Kawasaki ZX-10R White will be 13 990 euros.
Ninja ZX-10R – a high quality motorcycle of a category "supersports".
Bike is equipped by the 4-cylinder engine with liquid cooling in volume of 998 cubes, capacity of 184 h.p. Compression degree – 13. Injection system – Keihin. Weight – 208 kg. Conformity to ecological norms of the standard "Euro-3".
Brake system: in front two semifloating pedal brake disks in diameter 310мм, behind one petal disk in diameter 220мм. Wheels of 17 radiuses
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The Suzuki GSX 1300R, also known as the Hayabusa, is a hypersport motorcycle introduced in 1999. The name Hayabusa is the Japanese term for the Peregrine Falcon, known for its speed, and perhaps a joke at the expense of the Honda CBR1100XX Super Blackbird which was the fastest production motorcycle prior to the Hayabusa. The Peregrine Falcon is a predator of the common blackbird. Its extreme performance capability has also dubbed the bike as a “high abuser” of legal speed limits.
Afterwards, certain bikes were out to dare the Hayabusa top speed for a production motorcycle, including the BMW K1200S, the Kawasaki ZX-12R and the new ZX-14. And now Suzuki has decided for the 2008 model that they’ll not only revamp the super-bike, but will boost the size of the engine from 1299cc to 1340cc.
The compression power increases from 11.5:1 to 12.5:1. The 41cc increase in displacement stems from a 2mm increase in stroke giving each tube of the Inline-four a final spec of 81mm x 65mm (bore/stroke). Inside, there’s a new three-ring aluminum alloy forged slipper piston. The motor also gets a new set of titanium valves for intake and exhaust. The sizes haven’t changed, but the alternative metal has reduced the weight.
A little technology pulled from the GSX-R line is the Suzuki Drive Mode Selector (S-DMS) which provides three options of power delivery. A 4-2-1-2 exhaust which meets Euro 3 and Tier 2 emission regulations has been attached. Overall length has increased to 86.6 inches while the wheelbase is same. A 15mm higher windscreen and vertically stacked dual headlights are a part of the new look. The seat and rear sub-frame have been lowered by 17mm.
A pair of 310 mm balanced front rotors (10 mm smaller) offer less unsprung weight and are pinched by new Tokico radial-mount calipers. The single-piston rear caliper grabs a larger 260mm rotor (+20mm). There’s a Diamond like Coating (DLC) on the lower section of the inverted fork for less stiction. The steering geometry is virtually indistinguishable at 24.2 degrees of rake and 98mm of trail, an increase of 1 mm.
The revamped instrument cluster now features four analog meters for speedometer, tachometer, fuel gauge and water temperature with a new S-DMS mode indicator, gear position indicator and adjustable engine rpm indicator.
Since its introduction, the major Japanese motorcycle manufacturer realized that the power and speed wars among flagship sports bike would not end and would eventually lead to increased government regulations, an unfavorable public image due to more fatal accidents and higher insurance premiums.
The new Hayabusa will be available in Orange, Blue, and Black. Expect to see this ‘fiend’ sometime in October with a price tag of $11,999.
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Labels: 2008 Suzuki GSX 1300R Hayabusa
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See latest bikes at the New York Bike Show Top ten bikes at New York Motorcycle show This bike is available in Kingman at Mother Road Harley Davidson
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trademark: Megola
type: 640 cc racer
year of manufacture: 1923
country of origin: Germany
The twenties were very interesting times in the development of vehicles, and also of motorcycles. The most important was technical development rather than marketing. One of the most remarkable designs comes from Friz Cockerel, who designed a motorcycle between 1921 and 1925 which has the engine in the front wheel. This was the Megola, of which about 2000 were sold.
The 5 cylinder star-engine was mounted in the front wheel, and the wheel turned around six times slower than the crankshaft did. It has only one carburetteur. The Megola doesn’t have a clutch, so it has to be push started.
Specifications: Rotating 4 stroke, 5 cylinders in the front wheel, magneto ignition, 640 cc (52 x 60 mm), 14 HP at 5000 rpm, no gears, 2 drum brakes on the back wheel, tank 14.7 litres, maximum speed 143 km/h.
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Labels: M/C engine in the front wheel Year of manufacture: 1923