The Derny Taon by Roger Tallon

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A great french Designer is dead yesterday in total indifference, because of international events, Roger Tallon, aged 82 was known for his industrial achievement, the TGV (High speed train), the great Lip Watches, the futuristic Teleavia TV, the Hellicoidal staircase, and ... a motorcycle, one of the strangest on earth, The Derny Taon, Derny was an old french brand known for his motorized Bicycles, the "Taon" " Horse-fly", was designed in 1956 and powered by a 125cc two strokes AMC engine

THE DERNY TAON 125

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Ridon by Ross Lovegrove

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Derived from my man/machine studies, Ridon relates to the convergence of technology with human anatomic imprint. The ghost of human form pressed into the soft clay of the computers wireframe virtual skin floating out in the universe like a black hole opened by invisible gravity, only the heartbeat audible in the silent vacuum of deep space.


Man as the life force and the constant reference point of infinite scale, from micro to macro but always eye to eye in the way we perceive space and matter around us, one on one, walking on a earths terracotta plane, A known machine, wrapped around a man, postured to complete the holistic black form and to let air jetstream over a static object in the still air of an ordinary enclosed room. The dynamics of statics and the concept of speed and convergence as an inevitability in our prothetic accele¬rated future.

The contemplation of massive speed obtained from the static man; a metaphor of contemporary www. Communication, moving in the mind but not in he body, il furismo of a kind... Leonardo went nowhere but everywhere... How are ideas born... staring into space and drawing association between natures wonders of runn¬ing sequences of automated evolution? Humanity, heading towards 'the singularity' and a time when mans knowledge of the building blocks of life will instruct a new chapter in our evolution.... And with it a' new nature' conditioned by the man machine relationship of synthetic synthesis will take its chance at survival.

Ross Lovegrove

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NONOBJECT Design Fiction : nUCLEUS

NONOBJECT Design Fiction : nUCLEUS

OK everyone, I just love the Internet. You know if not for this incredible media outlet, I would never find half the odd shit that crosses my path regarding motorcycles...or concept motorcycles.

(Click on the headline to see what I'm talking about here!)

Here we are boys and girls, the NONOBJECT! It appears boxy from the side, but...when you watch the video, you will have to agree, yes...it is a wind splitter. But damn, this thing is ugly. It's a concept bike kiddies, so let's not get into what engine it has...and all the really neat questions regarding frame construction, brakes used front and rear, transmission 4,5,6 speed? All those little nasty's are not important...what is at stake here is an advent guard design. Functionality be damned! Notice the turn radius of the front wheel and handle bars? Yikes!

OK guys and dolls...let's not get our undies or short hairs twisted...this is actually fiction, just some desk jocky's conception of what of...well God only knows what this guy had in mind when he designed this! Big thumbs down!!!!