A Sweet Little Bullet

Berini Jeunesse fairing and headlight. Nice.

Colibri A5

Giorgetto Giugiaro has designed some motorcycles (like the Ducati 860), less known is that he also designed the Tomos Colibri A5.
Giugiaro
Ducati 860
Tomos Colibri A5

Karmann Cheetah

by Ital Design. Remember I had this as a Top Trump card.

Asso di Picche

Sharp looking 1973 Audi Concept by Ital Design. Love that dashboard.
Ital Design.

Research

Doing some design research. Box tape from Korean company MMMG. 

Idle hands are the devil's playground

The 6-Cylinder Jawa of István Gugyella. Via

Eigenbouw Motoren

What's the full story about this bike? Exhibited in the DAF museum in Eindhoven, its made of various Honda parts and with a flat-two DAF 46 engine. And the DAF Variomatic transmission of course.

UR-Monkee

The distinctive style of Wrenchmonkees, black and dark earthy colors, matt or semi-gloss surfaces and no excessive ornamentation has become quite iconic. Looking through old magazines, as you do during a christmas break, I re-discovered the Z750GT from '82. Wouldn't look out of place as an army courier bike except for some fancy gold detailing. The GT looks like the spiritual forefather of the Monkee #20.

B

S.O.B.

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Kobra

Whatever happened to the Seymour Powell designed and TDM powered MuZ Kobra which was presented as a prototype in '94? Seymour Powell also designed the Skorpion launched in production form the same year. Too bad it didn't look as good as the prototype. I think Seymour Powell have done more motorcycle designs through the years. I know they designed the Norton F1 and the Commander fairing.

Ragnar Hovland

Inès & Solex

Inès & Solex by Laurent Nivalle

Knott

During WWII when petrol was hard to come by, especially here in Scandinavia, wood gas (called 'Knott' in Norway) was used instead. This is a 1936 Swedish 98cc Blixt converted with an Åsbrink Sperco II Wood Gas generator in 1941. Apparently a complete failure, of a 1000 produced, 500 was scrapped by the factory. This is the only known remaining bike in Norway and this is what is sounds like.

Xenophya

Rieju RS3, sketches and design by Xenophya, who also designed the Mac Motorcycles.

Charbonneaux

Sketch by Philippe Charbonneaux for an updated Facel Vega design. He designed the Renault 8, 16 & 21. I visited his private collection of cars, which is now part of a museum, in Reims, France in the mid 90's when travelling through Europe. Highlight? The Citroen BX 4TC.

Merry Christmas!

What I want for christmas next year: Theresa Honeywell Knitwear.

Motolima

A conceptual design by Michael Young in collaboration with DuPont / Corian. Corian is solid, synthetic material with very qualitative feel, orginally developed as a material to replace human bones. We looked into using Corian for a consumer product a couple of years ago, but it was too expensive for what we wanted to do. My favorite Michael Young design is my PXR-6 watch. Via Designboom & Arkitip Intel.

Analyze this

El Guincho 'Bombay'

Wood Motorcycle

Conceptual wooden motorcycle designed by Robert Larsson. Inspired by the Playsam Streamliner.

#1 : Video

Video: Can't decide between Shinya Kimura (favorite part around 1:10), Arcade Fire (Spike Jonze) and Small Black (Great song.)

Ligier JS2

Santa

Winter etc.

Pieter Breugel "Hunters in the Snow"

Electricity

Never been a huge Beefheart fan, but Electricity is good.

#5 : Motorcycle

Motorcycle: Sign O' The Times. Can't decide between the MotoCzsysz E1pc, Brammo Empulse and the Misson R. All American, all electric.

The Original Sausage Creature

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Orange Crush

Fiskars and Laverda. Both are famous for their distinct orange color, but they ended up with orange for completely different reasons. Laverda apparently used the color to make their race bikes visible in difficult weather conditions, while in Finland the orange color was a leftover in the injection moulding machine in the Fiskars factory. They've even registered the color as Fiskars Orange®

#6 : Car

Car: Way too many nondescript cars on the market. I like the Fisker Karma. Its a technological breakthrough and it looks fantastic. Henrik Fisker designed both the AM DB9 and Vantage and the Z8. Is he related to Fisker and Nielsen, the pair behind the Danish Nimbus?

Bahrain

Christmas

This is from a cemetery here in Lund last christmas. A small boy playing Digger on his Gameboy. Heartbreaking.

Schwarzer Vogel's

Mercedes-Benz T80
44.5 liter V12
3000 HP
6 Wheels
750 km/h

#8 : Place

Place: Tokyo. Always interesting, always inspiring.

Karl Schlör and his Schlörwagen

#9 : Person

Person: Not Julian Assange or Liu Xiaobo but Pål Anders Ullevålseter. Came 2nd in the 2010 Dakar Rally as a privateer.

#10 : Store

Store: Wrenchmonkees in Copenhagen & Tres Bien Shop in Malmö

#11 : Concept

Concept: Mercedes Sculpture Experiments
Notcot

Frog Design FZ750 prototype

Guess where Frog Design's FZ750 prototype ended up? Apparently in their San Fransisco office, judging by the photo from the Frog Design homepage.

Eliminator Concepts

Eliminator Definition

White power

The Mercedes-Benz T80, engineered by Ferdinand Porsche, supported by Hitler.

Everything in its right place

My favorite Jacob Jensen design for Bang Olufsen. The 1971 Beolit 400/600.

Magazine not included

We're putting our house up for sale. This involves taking away any kind of polarizing elements and interior decoration, dirty undies and several boxes of toys before photos are taken. Can't belive its the same house. One of the few traces of who lives in this house can be found on my bedside table: Sideburn #6.

Barbapappa

"Barbaflink underviser i teknik och elektricitet" or "Barbabright teaches mechanics and electricity". Is that a Kawasaki H2 Mach IV? Or maybe be a Motobécane 350cc triple since Barbapapa is originally French?

Killed by Death

Favorite part: 3:31 when Lemmy exits the grave on a Harley.

Pelle & Frasse

I pretend I read all these cool magazines, when in reality I spend most of my time reading Children's book. Like this Swedish book by Jan Lööf that my kids like. Based on a Swedish cult TV-show, Tårtan, from the 70's. Here are two of the three brothers who run a bakery in the show.

Bosse's Husqvarna 500

Bosse Granath is a well known Swedish racer. He went GP racing with this factory-backed, two cylinder Husqvarna in the 70's.
Bo "Bosse" Granath

Black Dog

It takes the right person, with the right style, to ride a RT with dignity. I think Jeremy Irons pulls it off. From about 1:20 in this clip you'll see him driving with the dog on the back.

Centaur GT

Scheidegger & Burkhard 1959

O'dell & Holland 1977