The photo shows the Morlaco prototype, with a still unpainted chassis. The white part is a first “test” airbox, made using fiber glass just to check that dimensions are ok, that the intake trumpets fit properly, etc. In this post you can see the airbox, with its cover, already built using carbon fiber. In the middle-lower area […]
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In the photo you can see the size differences between the original Honda CBR 954 chassis and the new trellis built for the Bott 1000 Morlaco. One of our objectives in the design stage was to achieve a smaller and narrower bike than the original one, mainly in the area that the rider embraces with
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In the photo you can see the fueltank model mounted on the bike. One advantage about building the fueltank using composites is that it is possible to create more complex shapes than using aluminium, for example (building an aluminium fueltank with this shape would be very complex). This allows to take more profit of the
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My good friend Jose Garcia is a true rendering artist, normally I give him the 3D models and he generates images as nice as this one, which I add to the bottpower flickr gallery. I must give him new virtual parts, because in the real motorbike, some things changed regarding what you can see in
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For the fueltank construction, I thought about 3 possibilities: steel, aluminum and composites (carbon fiber, fiberglass, kevlar). Taking into account my limited means and knowledge I choosed the last option. The technical FIM rules explain in a quite precise way (in this document) the requirements that a composite fueltank must fulfill in order to be
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Besides the Morlaco race bike, I wanted to develop a street variant which was more or less a concept bike. The idea for this Morlaco variant was a bike which communicated with the rider. How?, I hear you ask. I’m always fascinated by technique which is shown to the world like for instance this Suzuki
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