of the striking concept bike that was unveiled at Munich three years ago. The first thing that struck me after seeing the line of black V-twins outside the Mandello factory was that this is that rare beast, a production bike which looks better than the prototype

Fed up with race reps? What about this?YOU'RE LOOKING at a stunning six-litre V8 concept motorcycle designed by Daniel Simon. The machine, which Simon has aptly named the Detonator, features a complex front suspension system, hubless two-wheel drive

on the front of the lorry and a projection system at the rear, Lebedev's design concept uses the back end of the vehicle as a display screen, telling following road users what's ahead, and whether it's safe to overtake.Details are scant to exactly how Lebedev

Are you a bike designer of the future?BMW ARE sponsoring an online competition to find the bike designer of the future. The British-based project says they are 'working closely together with the BMW Motorrad department of product development and product planning. Potential desig...

HARLEY-DAVIDSON had better get their skates on, as this is what CGI design ace Miguel Cotto thinks the company's motorcycles will look like in 2020.Complete with Tron-like styling, hubless wheels and, by the looks of it, an air-cooled engine, the bike's a far cry from the machine...

Over the past 10 years, Yamaha and Öhlins have devoted thousands of man-hours and millions of pounds developing a hydraulic motor capable of driving a motorcycle’s front wheel. KTM has patented a system that uses an electric motor in the front hub, but there’s no reason to think ...

Well, I only just did it. Managed to miss the flight on the Thursday morning (4am wake-up special), so had to fly in the following morning on the same horrendous pre-sunlight flight, got a taxi from Brescia airport to the hotel (a one-hour journey), then rode the Tuono all day an...

THIS IS BMW's new Concept Lo Rider project bike, shown for the first time at the Milan Show.The machine is powered by the company's ubiquitous Boxer flat-twin engine and has styling that's like nothing else BMW have released.High or low pipes

THIS MACHINE has been doing the rounds across the internet for the last month or two, so we thought we'd give you first dibs with this funky online video released by its creator, Julian RONDINO.The machine's an inline three-wheel concept, featuring

IT'S ABOUT TIME we had a look at a bit of concept bike eye candy, so here are a gaggle of futuristic Ducati-based specials concocted by several design students.The Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) of Turin worked in collaboration with Ducati as part