In the current economic climate, you wouldn’t always expect people to continue innovating, creating and following their passions. But new British motorcycle brand, “Mac Motorcycles” proves that the heyday of English invention and the love affair with the motorcycle is by no means over.

Ellis Pitt, a design consultant with product design background, has teamed up with Xenophya in a collaboration that is producing some intriguing examples of British motorcycle tradition.

Mac Motorcycles are based on the 500cc Buell ‘Blast’ motor using lightweight, air cooled single cylinder technology in a tubular backbone frame. The result is four different models, which the company describes thus:

‘Spud’, for dossing about on, ‘Ruby’, the motorcycle equivalent of ‘the girl-next-door’, ‘Peashooter’, for squirting to your favourite pub and gassing with your mates and the ‘Roarer’, a modern-day dinosaur-chaser!

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Xenophya Design has come up with this surprising prototype of an electric superbike with some tempting features. It’s called hte EV-0RR and is a zero emissions bike created to race the TTXGP: a new gran prix for ecological and environmentally friendly motorcycles to be held on the Isle of Man on June 12th.

The Ev-0RR has a monocoque carbon fibre chassis and single front and rear suspension. The engine will be made of two electric units. If electric motorcycles start to look this good, and we get an infrastructure to support them, you can bet the future is looking rosy for these bikes.

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Design firm Xenophya, dedicated specifically to motorcycle design projects, has opened a new studio in the UK, and taking a look at these pics just makes you want to get your hands all dirty, playing around with clay and letting your imagination loose.

The new complex includes clay-modelling and paint workshops along with a design office and conference facilities. The company has been around since 2001 and was established by Mark Wells and Ian Wride as an outsourcing consultancy on motorcycle design.

While much of their work is highly confidential, and Xenophya rarely gets public credit for what it does, it is starting to make a name for itself in the industry and is even opening a Hong Kong office for better access to the fast growing Chinese market.

In the gallery is some of Xenophya’s work, their prototype studio and clay modelling studio, about which Ian Wride says: “Although computers are now indispensable throughout the development process, we believe clay models are still essential for a hands-on evaluation of a design proposal. You just can’t interact with a CAD model in the same way.”

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