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  • PATENT: Honda’s TELESCOPIC side stand.

    PATENT: Honda’s TELESCOPIC side stand.

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    Honda’s thinking outside the box again, filing patents for a new telescopic side stand system which is made up of three sections that fit into each other. We all know how a motorcycle side stand works. It’s a tried and tested design that’s been unchanged for many years – and there’s a reason for that;…

  • Want to see Yamaha's plans for a carbon-fibre road bike that BRUISES when damaged and emits LIGHT from a wound to the frame?

    Want to see Yamaha's plans for a carbon-fibre road bike that BRUISES when damaged and emits LIGHT from a wound to the frame?

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    Here’s a design patent from Yamaha that’s going to blow a few minds – a carbon-fibre framed motorcycle that BRUISES when the frame is damaged, even if the bike falls over at a standstill. It might sound like a thought-pattern straight from the latest sci-fi blockbuster movie, but the truth of the matter is that…

  • Honda patents it’s first all electric sporty (ish) roadster

    Honda patents it’s first all electric sporty (ish) roadster

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    So this drawing has appeared as part of a patent from Honda and in it you can clearly see that it’s an all-electric vehicle slotted into a semi-sporty outer. There’s not much detail on the intricacies of the bike itself; batteries are low slung, there’s braking regen from the front wheel and the rear triangular…

  • Honda and Kawasaki’s PATENTS for cameras and sensors on its motorcycles

    Honda and Kawasaki’s PATENTS for cameras and sensors on its motorcycles

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    Honda and Kawasaki have filed patents for sensors and cameras that detect possible risks out on the road. Patents filed by Honda and Kawasaki confirm that the next advance in safety equipment is much closer to becoming a reality. Kawasaki has already announced that it will be launching models equipped with radar technology – and…

  • BMW’s plans for CHARGING via the SIDE STAND revealed

    BMW’s plans for CHARGING via the SIDE STAND revealed

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    Now this, we like. It may only be a patent at this stage, but BMW looks like it might have just cracked the rather cumbersome idea of having to physically plug-in your future electric motorcycle to an old-style cable sprouting from a nearby electrical socket. How it does this is by direct transfer of the…

  • Kawasaki files PATENT for hybrid injection system for its SUPERCHARGED motorcycle engine

    Kawasaki files PATENT for hybrid injection system for its SUPERCHARGED motorcycle engine

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    Official patents filed by Kawasaki reveal that the Japanese factory is working on a hybrid injection system for its supercharged engine. Following Honda filing patent for a hybrid injection system for its supercharged models, Kawasaki’s playing catch up – creating a new system which combines direct and indirect injection. At the minute, motorcycles tend to…

  • Want to see Yamaha’s plans for a carbon-fibre road bike that BRUISES when damaged and emits LIGHT from a wound to the frame?

    Want to see Yamaha’s plans for a carbon-fibre road bike that BRUISES when damaged and emits LIGHT from a wound to the frame?

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    Here’s a design patent from Yamaha that’s going to blow a few minds – a carbon-fibre framed motorcycle that BRUISES when the frame is damaged, even if the bike falls over at a standstill. It might sound like a thought-pattern straight from the latest sci-fi blockbuster movie, but the truth of the matter is that…

  • Harley-Davidson patents the electric ‘super shopper’ City Speedster motorcycle

    Harley-Davidson patents the electric ‘super shopper’ City Speedster motorcycle

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    Yep, the American firm has gone and filed patents for the electric city runabout that was first unveiled as one of the possible ‘future’ models in a H-D line-up back in February last year. Back then, the little runaround looked like this: And the patents are virtually identical to the orange mini-bike, albeit drawn without…

  • Honda patents Artificially Intelligent suspension

    Honda patents Artificially Intelligent suspension

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    How about this then? It’s Honda’s plans to put a suspension system on a bike that actually knows and PREDICTS the type of surface need you’ll want in the next split second! The designs uses both passive (reactive) and adaptive suspension equipment that respond to the range and frequency of the terrain under and in…

  • Honda files patents for the CB125X and CB125M funky future roadsters.

    Honda files patents for the CB125X and CB125M funky future roadsters.

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    Last winter a lot of the world’s biking press (us included) opined that Honda’s small-capacity prototypes shown at Milan should make it to the road. What we were treated to was a pretty upright roadster and a small Adventure-styled bike. More of a styling exercise than a real presentation of a future bike or two…

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