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Showing posts with label Future. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Future. Show all posts
Friday, 12 May 2023
Thursday, 30 March 2023
Motoroid
Image - Unknown
#HirotoIkeuchi #YamahaMotoroid #ConceptMotorcycle #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage
Monday, 14 November 2022
DeLorean
The future ain't what it used to be...
Image - Skiegraphic Studio
#DeLorean #TheFutureAintWhatItUsedToBe #BTTF #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage
Friday, 27 May 2022
Sleek
#Futurism #Cyberpunk #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Friday, 24 December 2021
The Future
It's not what it used to be...
Image - Unknown
#LookAndLearn #SpeedAndPower #LifeOnMars #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage
Friday, 12 November 2021
Casual Friday
Images - I can't even...
#Quasar #QuasarMotorcycle #TimeTravel #Discosphere #TheSeventies #The70s #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage
Monday, 8 November 2021
Frog
It's like Tom Petty said - The future ain't what it used to be...
Image Frog Design
#Yamaha #YamahaRana #YamahaFrog750 #FrogDesign #TheFutureAintWhatItUsedToBe #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage
Tuesday, 7 September 2021
Early Morning Commute
Illustration Unknown
#Dinosaur #DinosaurRider #TheFutureIsDinosaur #RadicalTransportSolutions #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryGarage
Thursday, 15 July 2021
Aether
Image Unknown
#Aether #ElectricMotorcycle #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryMotorcycleGarage #MercenaryGarage
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
Lost Future
Check out this beautiful futuristic hub-centre-steered Yamaha concept and yearn for the eighties and that lost future...
#DouglasBarber #FrogDesign #EightiesFuturism #TheEighties #The80s #HubCentreSteering #MotorcycleConcept #Mercenary #MercenaryMotorcycles #MercenaryMotorcycleWorkshop #MercenaryGarage
Sunday, 29 November 2020
Thursday, 29 October 2020
K/DA V4 Panigale
Um... Yeah, no...
I don't know where to begin with this...
This is Akali. Akali is a singer in a girl band called K/DA.
And that's Akali's custom V4 Panigale designed especially for her by Ducati Design Centre.
So far so good, okay?
Except that K/DA is made up of a group of girls from the computer game League of Legends published by Riot Games. So Akali's not real. Neither is K/DA and neither is the custom designed V4 Panigale. They're all virtual.
So this is a virtual collaboration between Akali, K/DA, League of Legends, Riot Games and Ducati Design Centre. Presumably because Ducati wants to exploit that elusive Virtual Girl Band Stan/Gamer/Hyper Motorcycle Owner crossover dollar or something...
If this had happened in 1986 with Sigue Sigue Sputnik and the Ducati Paso I would have been all over it, but now it just makes me feel old. And tired. And confused...
#KDA #KDAMore #LeagueX #LeagueOfLegends #RiotGames #Ducati #DucatiPanigale #Panigale #V4Panigale #DucatiDesignCentre #WTF #EnoughAlready #TiredNow #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Tuesday, 16 June 2020
Hyper Cyber Bike
Curves? Fuck curves!
The future will look like a filing cabinet...
Images 3Dmenth Studio
#3DmenthStudio #HyperCyberBike #Futurism #EdgeDesign #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
The future will look like a filing cabinet...
Images 3Dmenth Studio
#3DmenthStudio #HyperCyberBike #Futurism #EdgeDesign #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Wednesday, 1 January 2020
The Twenty Twenties
The last time the future arrived in one big chunk was the '80s. That was weird and fun; Pacman, Max Headroom, Aliens, Ghostbusters and the advent of Cyberpunk
Well the future is back now and it's looking decidedly dystopian. There are fucking Nazis coming out of the woodwork and everything is on fire. There's not a lot to be done except zip up your leather, pull down you goggles and say Fuck It.
Let's do this...
Image Wenfei Ye
#WenfeiYe #DeathRace #2020 #TwentyTwenty #LetsDoIt #FuckIt #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Well the future is back now and it's looking decidedly dystopian. There are fucking Nazis coming out of the woodwork and everything is on fire. There's not a lot to be done except zip up your leather, pull down you goggles and say Fuck It.
Let's do this...
Image Wenfei Ye
#WenfeiYe #DeathRace #2020 #TwentyTwenty #LetsDoIt #FuckIt #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Monday, 30 July 2018
New Harley Custom
Late news breaking! This just in...
Harley Davidson has just announced a whole load of new stuff in an attempt to revive sluggish sales by exploiting new markets.
Notable in this is a range of liquid cooled models including a new Custom, a new Streetfighter and a monster Adventure bike.
The design team for the Adventure bike clearly studied offerings from BMW, market leader in the Pretendy-Off-Road-Adventure segment, and the core value they took away was Ugly. So Harley have doubled down and produced what is definitely one of the ugliest motorcycles ever made. Perhaps second only to the Bimota Mantra. Yeah, it's THAT ugly. Too ugly even for MERCENARY, you'll have to look it up on someone else's blog. Try BikeExif - they feature loads of ugly bikes...
The Streetfighter looks pretty good. Not immediately identifiable as a Harley but a solid bit of styling.
But the Custom! The Custom is sublime! Like a Sportster but chubbier and with a 1250 liquid cooled motor, it's a little piece of perfection...
Image Unknown
#HarleyDavidson #BreakingNews #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Harley Davidson has just announced a whole load of new stuff in an attempt to revive sluggish sales by exploiting new markets.
Notable in this is a range of liquid cooled models including a new Custom, a new Streetfighter and a monster Adventure bike.
The design team for the Adventure bike clearly studied offerings from BMW, market leader in the Pretendy-Off-Road-Adventure segment, and the core value they took away was Ugly. So Harley have doubled down and produced what is definitely one of the ugliest motorcycles ever made. Perhaps second only to the Bimota Mantra. Yeah, it's THAT ugly. Too ugly even for MERCENARY, you'll have to look it up on someone else's blog. Try BikeExif - they feature loads of ugly bikes...
The Streetfighter looks pretty good. Not immediately identifiable as a Harley but a solid bit of styling.
But the Custom! The Custom is sublime! Like a Sportster but chubbier and with a 1250 liquid cooled motor, it's a little piece of perfection...
Image Unknown
#HarleyDavidson #BreakingNews #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Sunday, 3 September 2017
Stratos
Image Unknown
#Bertone #Lancia #StratosZero #LockheedStarfighter #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Monday, 31 July 2017
Late News Breaking
This just beamed in from the future. MERCENARY has no idea...
Image Unknown
#BMW #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Image Unknown
#BMW #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Quasar
I've always considered the Quasar to be ungainly. It just doesn't look right. It looks long and top-heavy. And it's ugly. The view from the front isn't too bad but from every other angle it's a mess.
So last week I was fortunate enough to find myself in The National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham and in the lobby was an example of this rare machine (less than 30 were made).
The photos I've seen don't quite do it justice - it's even more repulsive in the flesh. But it had a sign on it inviting visitors to sit into it. Initially, I was disinclined to do this but then I managed to overcome my prejudice and climb aboard.
And I was hooked! For all its ugliness on the outside, it feels fantastic to sit in! It felt a bit like the Akira Bike and a bit like a fighter-jet and it was very easy to imagine how cool it would be on long motorway journeys. I'd love to have a go in one.
Photo Agata Winiarska
#Quasar #QuasarMotorcycle #FeetForward #NationalMotorcycleMuseum #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
So last week I was fortunate enough to find myself in The National Motorcycle Museum in Birmingham and in the lobby was an example of this rare machine (less than 30 were made).
The photos I've seen don't quite do it justice - it's even more repulsive in the flesh. But it had a sign on it inviting visitors to sit into it. Initially, I was disinclined to do this but then I managed to overcome my prejudice and climb aboard.
And I was hooked! For all its ugliness on the outside, it feels fantastic to sit in! It felt a bit like the Akira Bike and a bit like a fighter-jet and it was very easy to imagine how cool it would be on long motorway journeys. I'd love to have a go in one.
Photo Agata Winiarska
#Quasar #QuasarMotorcycle #FeetForward #NationalMotorcycleMuseum #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
Monday, 8 May 2017
See-through Future
MERCENARY is currently lamenting the loss of see-through stuff.
When I was a child my world was filled with cutaway drawings of Harrier Jump-Jets, Space Shuttles, Hovercraft and other technological marvels (Salter Duck anyone?). These drawings were pretty commonly featured in magazines and comics of the time to meet a demand for a future that hadn't quite arrived yet. There was a sense at the time that there was a better destiny just around the corner if could just hang on a little longer and these drawings were a way for people to satisfy their curiosity about these new technologies.
So the future did arrive in the mid '80s* and one of the points of impact was the 1985 Suzuki GSXR 750. At first glance, the image below looks quaint and a little old fashioned but try to look at it from the point of view of the pre-future...
The '85 GSXR was the first production Race Replica. They aren't called that anymore, they're just called sports bikes now but this was the first one. It was the first fully faired production bike and the first bike with twin headlights. It was the first production bike with an aluminium frame. And although the motor was derived from the '70s GS bikes, its oil cooling was truly novel. Oil cooled engines didn't really catch on generally but Suzuki campaigned the GSXR motor well into the 21st century.
But mostly, it looked like nothing that had come before. It was brutally futuristic and that future was tangibly technological, powerful and Japanese.
I may be nostalgic about the future, but I'm not cynical. The future did arrive and now in the post-future we are surrounded by technological marvels that we take for granted. People are generally better off in terms of food, education and healthcare and that stuff is important. For the most part, the world is a better place than it used to be.
But I do miss the sense of marvel and novelty embodied by all those cutaway drawings.
*The future has been slowly arriving since the industrial revolution, but noticeably a big chunk of it arrived all at once in the mid '80s.
#SuzukiGSXR #SuzukiSlabSide #SlabSide #TheFuture #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
When I was a child my world was filled with cutaway drawings of Harrier Jump-Jets, Space Shuttles, Hovercraft and other technological marvels (Salter Duck anyone?). These drawings were pretty commonly featured in magazines and comics of the time to meet a demand for a future that hadn't quite arrived yet. There was a sense at the time that there was a better destiny just around the corner if could just hang on a little longer and these drawings were a way for people to satisfy their curiosity about these new technologies.
So the future did arrive in the mid '80s* and one of the points of impact was the 1985 Suzuki GSXR 750. At first glance, the image below looks quaint and a little old fashioned but try to look at it from the point of view of the pre-future...
The '85 GSXR was the first production Race Replica. They aren't called that anymore, they're just called sports bikes now but this was the first one. It was the first fully faired production bike and the first bike with twin headlights. It was the first production bike with an aluminium frame. And although the motor was derived from the '70s GS bikes, its oil cooling was truly novel. Oil cooled engines didn't really catch on generally but Suzuki campaigned the GSXR motor well into the 21st century.
But mostly, it looked like nothing that had come before. It was brutally futuristic and that future was tangibly technological, powerful and Japanese.
I may be nostalgic about the future, but I'm not cynical. The future did arrive and now in the post-future we are surrounded by technological marvels that we take for granted. People are generally better off in terms of food, education and healthcare and that stuff is important. For the most part, the world is a better place than it used to be.
But I do miss the sense of marvel and novelty embodied by all those cutaway drawings.
*The future has been slowly arriving since the industrial revolution, but noticeably a big chunk of it arrived all at once in the mid '80s.
#SuzukiGSXR #SuzukiSlabSide #SlabSide #TheFuture #Mercenary #MercenaryGarage
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