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The latest hydrogen-powered motorcycle was on display at the London Design Museum on March 15, 2005 and the buzz it has created is making waves around the world. The designer of the bike, Nick Talbot of the award-winning British design team Seymourpowell, was recruited by Intelligent Energy to produce this zero-emission marvel that could change the way we look at our favorite two wheeled machines.
The ENV (Emissions Neutral Vehicle) motorcycle is powered by a high pressure hydrogen CORE fuel cell designed by Intelligent Energy and they claim it can reach speeds up to 50 mph. Further revisions are currently in the works that will increase the top speed substantially to make it legal for highway use. The bike has no transmission, instead it utilizes a centrifugal clutch similar to modern scooters, and it can travel up to 100 miles or up to four hours on one fully charged fuel cell.
The CORE fuel cell is about the size of a briefcase and according to Sir John Jennings of Intelligent Technology, can be used to power many more aspects of life beyond just this bike.
Victory Vision street bike!
We just thought you would like to have another look at the concept bike Victory launched last year. It is a Vision for the future, where this particular concept features an 800cc parallel twin and some visionary Street design. Will we see more road bikes from Victory with fairing and all in the future? Well, that's the Vision 800 anyway. Next about Victory: The 2008 Luxury Tour bike. Look at the concept sketches below and we guarantee you that the real thing is worth waiting for. Enjoy the reviews of the 2007/08 bikes
Honda has launched a fully automatic concept bike at the Tokyo motorcycle show, which it promises will make it to full production. The DN-01 concept (DN-01 stands for the first (01) vehicle developed under Honda’s Dream New (DN) concept) is a sports-tourer based around the Deauville v-twin 680cc engine, but Honda has taken inserted a scooter-style continuously variable automatic system.
The rider will be able to choose between two different automatic modes - presumably one for sport and one for normal riding – and a fully manual option so the rider can choose when to change gear via the bar mounted buttons.
Although I'm typically not interested in sport-tourers, this bike has a definite cruiser feel to it with the low cruiser style seat and the V-twin.
Here's the press release:
TOKYO, Japan, October 19, 2005 - At the 39th Tokyo Motor Show 2005, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today introduced a large-size sports motorcycle concept model, DN-01*, equipped with a continuously variable automatic transmission and a water-cooled, 4-stroke, OHC, V-type, 2-cylinder, 680cc engine. Honda will continue the development of DN-01 with the goal of introducing it to the market in the near future.
