Aerodynamic elements in motorsport and the transition into road bikes
Motorsport is, at its heart, a marketing exercise. Manufacturers vie to prove their products are better than their rivals’ by going faster, more reliably and for longer. ‘Win on Sunday, Sell on Monday’ might be a cliché, but it still holds true. At the highest levels,...
Role of Motorsport as a Technology Validation Environment
Racing has always been the ultimate proving ground for motorcycle technology. You only need to look at modern road bikes to see where competition-proven concepts have fought their way through to the mass market, so the race machines of today are a crystal ball to the...
Combining Technologies for Motorcycle Efficiency
For more than a century we’ve been spoiled by the sheer flexibility of internal combustion engines and the abundance of cheap fossil fuels to power them. Now the entire world is faced with cutting back on that consumption while appreciating that customers aren’t going...
OEM Patents highlight the direction of travel
Big Brand Developments show increased emphasis on Motorcycle Aerodynamics It wasn’t until 1976 that the first truly aerodynamics production motorcycle reached showrooms in the form of BMW’s wind tunnel-developed R100RS and the pace of development remained slow. But...