Hasta La Ideas

The notion of designing a vehicle that is equally at home on a racetrack and on city streets is, in many ways, a fools’ errand: the criteria for each tends to diverge to the point of being mutually exclusive.

That said, designers will be damned if they don’t at least make an effort, and a couple of our more ambitious Coroflot members have made worthy attempts at doing so: South Korean Lee Jung Hoon has tackled my conveyance of choice, the track bicycle, while Tel Aviv’s Eyal Melnick takes on the “electric supersport motorcycle.”

(My commentary will largely focus on Lee’s “Cyclone”—I’ve only been on a motorcycle once in my life—so hopefully some of our more motor-inclined faithful can share their input on Eyal’s “Shavit.”)

(more…)