patent battles, has had to come to an arrangement with Harley to take on one of the firm's trademarks: Lightning.The new generation iPhone and iPad both used Apple's much trumpeted 'Lightning' connector, but when it came to getting permission to use

Honda has just filed patents that seem to show a totally new design of bike – or at least, we can't place it.The patents themselves relate to the design of the front and rear lights, but they're shown attached to a strange-looking creation that may

KTM has filed patents for a two-wheeled drive off-road bike. The patent protects the idea for the new drive system fitted to either an enduro or motocross bike.The plans show the bike as having a standard motor to drive the rear wheel

It's no secret that the biking population is getting older but this patent from Honda seems to suggest they're working on the solution – something that can keep you on two wheels however decrepit you become.Like the firm's incredible U3-X electric

of its thrust towards the introduction of semi-active suspension.According to new patent documents filed by the firm, the Bavarian company is working on a new seat with “a damper system under the seat surface that absorbs and reduces impacts

BRITISH firm Gibbs is pretty much unique in making amphibious cars and not long ago we revealed they'd also designed a water-going trike. Well now they're working on a two-wheeled version.Patents show that the company has designed a jet-ski style

Ducati has filed these diagrams in a recent patent application in the USA.Labelled the "Simplified Motorcycle", the diagrams show a motorcycle that doesn't have a conventional frame but instead bolts the swingarm and front end directly to the engine

IN a reversal of Honda's tactic of taking the fully-faired VFR1200F sports tourer and turning it into the Crosstourer adventure bike, Yamaha looks like it might be planning to use its new Super Tenere as the basis of a faired road bike.New patents

of the impact.Finally, the design – which is revealed in newly filed patents from the firm, and shown fitted to a CB1300 – features a triangular-shaped airbag, wider at the top than the bottom. Again, that's to improve the chances of the rider hitting it as he

ERIK BUELL has filed another patent and this time it's an exhaust that runs through the motorcycle's swingarm.In the patent, Buell list's the design as being: "A motorcycle including a swingarm that movable mounts a rear wheel to a main frame