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In Bottpower we have a recurrent conversation theme, which is to build a high performance street superbike (also for the track, of course), with a modern 1000 cc. engine and high level components. A bike that would allow us to take the maximun profit of the electronics we are developing (which are already competing in 2013 World Supersport championship with Gabor Talmacsi). As you probably know, in Bottpower we alway

Formula Moto is a monthly Spanish magazine. In the next number #52, April, available in magazine shops from next tuesday (March 17th), there is a 4 pages article about the Morlaco. This is inside a bigger article about Spanish prototypes, which shows also the D1200R, another prototype with FFE and an impressive aesthetics. The concept in which the D1200R front end is based was invented by Juan Elizalde, the mechanica

The Morlaco was designed as a racing motorbike, in the meantime Hugo van Waaijen is exploring several conceptual possibilities for this motorbike. In the next image you can see the original design and behind it a possible street version. The main objective of the Morlaco project is to learn and have fun and these concepts are part of this process. For this design Hugo was inspired by a bull (a Morlaco is a kind of bu

I had some time without writing about the Morlaco, a project that is going ahead at idle speed. Yesterday I took this photo that shows the current status of the bike. Comparing with the last time I took photos, this is the new stuff: The bike has custom built Technoflex shocks. Carbon fiber airbox. Carbon fiber fueltank (here and here you can see 2 post talking about the fuel tank construction). The “triple cla

Good, cheap and nice. These were our premises for the Morlaco bodywork design. To build a nice and efficient bodywork involves a lot of time and resources that we don’t have, so the most practical solution was to copy something or start from something already fabricated. We decided to use parts from other motorbikes (bodywork, fueltank cover, tail and keel) and modify it to change it’s aspect in order to

The wishbones of the front suspension are the most critical and most heavily loaded parts of the bike. The wishbones connect the front fork with the chassis and they also acommodate the front shock. Both parts are clamped to the chassis through 2 rod-ends that allow to modify their lenght, making possible to adjust the front end geometry. The lower wishbone is the one more loaded, mainly during braking. It’s sh

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 of the photo appears one of the aluminum triangles built to clamp the trellis c

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 his knees. In this way we could improve the ergonomy, making a bike more comfortable to ride, and also making possible to

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 avaliable room, in this way it is possible to maximize the fueltank capacity. English is not my na

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 the image. I like a lot the front mudguard designed by Hugo van Waaijen. It reminds me a F1 nose. English is not my native la