Since we said that we wanted to work again in our Morlaco project, taking it as a “side project”, we made some progress with the real bike (we will talk about it in a few weeks). Meanwhile, in our free time we also have refined a little bit the CAD bike. The design is very […]
BOTT 1000 Morlaco with Gulf colors Read More »
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
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
Morlaco article in Formula Moto magazine. Read More »
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
Morlaco “street version” Read More »
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
Here it is the Morlaco again. Read More »
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,
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 design (1) Read More »
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
testing some parts for the Morlaco Read More »
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
the Morlaco chassis (1) Read More »
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
fueltank construction (2) Read More »
