Hasta La Ideas

Alan Derosier is a French transportation designer. (We looked at his excellent work here.) Derosier has a quirky habit of sending out family Christmas cards with fanciful concept renderings on them, like this one:

Derosier got a chance to realize that concept, albeit with wheels. He was contacted by Eyelights, a French company that makes heads-up displays for motorcycle helmets, to help them produce a prototype electric motorcycle. The resultant design is called the Rocket One:

Derosier provides some background info:

“This is my first motorcycle project, and what a fun project it was! As it was something new for me and I had no experience in that field, I decided to approach it exactly the same way as with cars. I started with the proportions and silhouettes research, then balancing the masses and refining the surfaces, to finish with all the tech details.”

“The tricky part was to try to make it feel as light as possible even though it carries these huge batteries.”

“Done in a record time of 3 months from 1st sketch to working prototype! Supported by a team of incredibly skilled people from @l2concept (Alain Grandjean & David Carvalho) : 3D modeling (@_clara_rt_ , Anthony & Bernard), electronic specialist to setup all the lighting animations on the prototype (Jerome & Anthony), the team of assemblers (Manon, Julie & Jeff) the painters (Christian & BenJ) . But also video makers (Julien & Quentin) and photographer/retoucher (@tomwheatley.eu). This project is called ROCKET ONE and was initiated by Romain Duflot @duff.ro for his company EYELIGHTS @eyelightsfr.”

Eyelights says the bike is production-ready, and has started an e-mail notification list. No prices have been announced.