Concept Motorcycle: Hyundai Aebulle

This cool vehicle is Hyundai Aebulle concept, especial it's a motorbike however not a automotive, that is intended by Shane Baxley from the Art Center school of style in Pasadena, CA.

The concept was designed to be powered by compact in-wheel electrical motors plus lithium batteries stored within the floor of the vehicle. It’s front wheels are connected to separate freelance swing arms that permit the Aebulle to glide around corners. The body is formed of an aluminum frame and therefore the “windshield” is formed of aluminum oxynitride glass. the total high of the three-wheeler lifts up, taking with it the middle console and permitting the passenger to create his exit.

 

While an indoor motorbike could be moving dangerously near economical, one-seat automotive, this one earns alittle respect for its sheer awesome style. dropped at us by Shane Baxley, a style student at Pasadena’s Art Center school of style, the vehicle “delivers the mobility and speed of a motorbike whereas providing the protection that a cocoon offers a butterfly. The Aebulle is targeted for the l. a. region where it might utilize the commuter lanes permitting its occupant a fast commute.” In LA, it ought to conjointly earn you a conversation or 2 with a scantily-clad blond beauty.

Baxley got pretty artistic with the Aebulle (cocoon in Korean), incorporating 2 independently-mounted front wheels, in-wheel motors, floor-mounted li-ions and an e-ink show for data like speed and fuel. it's going to subtract alittle of the wind-in-your-face freedom of today’s motorbike, however it's incredibly fun to drive.

Via: luanpa dot net

concept motorcycle : Futuristic Design One Seater

Do you want to go round and round and round? Have you ever thought of riding a round vehicle even in your wild dreams? Check out this new concept of round shaped vehicle. You can easily fit yourself inside this vehicle and start riding it. This vehicle is surely going to give an amazing experience to anyone who will try it on roads. Its design is very unique and modern. This one-seater vehicle is going to revolutionize the present vehicle world. Without taking much space on roads, it will definitely prove to be a beneficial concept.


Designer : Ronnie Ishii

Concept motorcycle : Yamaha Gen-RYU hybrid

Yamaha is dropping no less than 9 world premiere models on the 39th Tokyo Motor Show coming up later this month. Of special note to us is the Gen-Ryu hybrid motorcycle prototype (damn!) which combines the YZF-R6 600cc engine with a high output, high efficiency electric motor. Combine that with some fat wheels and that long wheelbase and you've got a machine said to perform and handle like a "1,000cc class machine." Eco-power not workin' it for ya? Ok, well consider it has a vehicle-to-vehicle distance warning system, a "cornering light system" for a little night time knee-scraping action, and a noise cancelation system which is said to allow for an intercom, voice navigation, hands-free cellphone calls, and music player — damn impressive if it really works! And just for kicks, how about an LCD so you can watch those cagers mouth "what the…" as you roll on by.

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Concept motorcycle : Yamaha Deus Ex Machina

Yamaha Deus Ex Machina Concept Motorcycle designed by Art Center Pasadena student Jake Loniak. It looks really cool! This concept bike likes a stand robot. The vehicle is powered by ultra-capacitors and doped nano-phoshpate batteries (similar to the ones currently used in hybrid cars) and it is controlled using 36 pneumatic muscles with two linear actuators set along a spine consisting of 7 artificial vertebrae.

Yamaha XT500 : The LPG-powered motorcycle Greenfly

Dave Akhurst is a braver man than you or I. I feel confident in saying this because he rides around the countryside on the Greenfly - a heavily modified XT500 Yamaha that runs on Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) - and thus, if he happens to fall off, there’s a pressurised gas tank right there between his legs waiting to blow his bollocks off if it gets punctured.
The benefits of running vehicles on LPG are reasonably cheap running costs due to lower government taxes on LPG than unleaded petrol in most places, it has a high octane rating (108RON) and burns quite cleanly. On the flipside, you tend to get significantly less mileage per litre on a tank full of LPG than you would on petrol - and there’s the whole pressurised bollock-exploding gas cylinder thing to worry about as well.

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Motorcycle tank

WWII motorcycle tank hybrids. Very odd vehicles and I'm not really sure of the reasoning behind their construction, why the motorcycle front end was necessary isn't clear, the one site says it's for stability at high speeds and you actually could remove it in really rough terrain, but they do look interesting.

Specs say they could get up to 45-50mph with the 4 cylinder, 1478cc gasoline engine sourced from Opel, while the vehicle itself was made by NSU. It was designed to go into mountainous terrain and tow a trailer or small gun.

The web sites say there were about 8400 Kettenkrads produced during the war and over 500 afterwards. Some collectors keep them going and I think they look like a real hoot. I love stuff like this and if you dig around enough, you never know what you might find. Neat.