Tuesday 8 March 2011

Bottpower XR-1

Saw this bike on Hell for Leather. It's a concept by the Spanish Bottpower outfit. It's powered by a Buell engine. They even call it an XR. I wonder what the motor company will have to say about that (especially as we're told they paid Storz a lot of money to buy the XR1200 tag). GI

'The BOTT XR-1 is a bike based on a Buell, who acts as a donor of wheels, suspensions, brakes, engine and swingarm. The intention is to create a motorbike with flattrack aesthetics, based on the Harley XR 750 racers. To build this bike we had to design a central spine chassis. We will give more details about this chassis in following posts.
'The idea about building this bike is from Ramón Bellosta, the guy who asked us to build this chassis. I think it is a very good idea because the BOTT XR-1 will be very funny to ride. The Harley XR1200 is the most similar thing you can find on the market, but while the Harley weights 250 kgs and has 85 HP, the BOTT XR-1 will weight 170 kgs, will have more than 100 HP, and it will have much more agressive geometries, so it will be a much more agile bike.
'Ramón will finish the bike following his taste, but in Bottpower we couldn’t avoid to make some renders to explore the aesthetic possibilities of this concept. It is very probable that we continue making renders during the following weeks, testing different ideas.
'If the project stirs up enough interest we will think about making a kit, so anybody interested could be able to build a BOTT XR-1 starting from a Buell.'

3 comments:

KrookStreetRacing said...

That is the best looking concept I've seen in years!

I'm very interested in how the frame will look. I may have to copy it:-)

YZ400BEN said...

I see it's equipped for camping, with a rolled up tent strapped underneath...

Nick said...

Nice one Ben