French designer Philippe Starck has designed a motorbike for French motorcycle manufacturer Voxan.
According to Motorcyclists Online, it’s a prototype and it’s called the Café Racer Super Naked.
More information to follow soon hopefully but for now here’s some images.
Update 01/02/08: Here’s some info from Starck’s office:
“VOXAN the exclusive and unique French motorbike brand presents its new extreme vision of the café racer. With the “super naked Xv”, Voxan by Starck. Raw power enhanced by the radical purity of the minimalism. The absolute essence of the motorcycle. 1200 cm ³. 140 horsepower 180 kg. Order on internet. Available beginning last quarter 2007.”
Photographs by Thomas Duval.
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Posted by Rose Etherington
You gotta imagine on your head Starck saying with that accent: “Café Racer Super Naked’. HAHHA
January 30th, 2008 at 2:40 amThat just makes me hot
January 30th, 2008 at 2:51 amThat is one ugly bike!
January 30th, 2008 at 4:19 amI’ll sell everything everything i had to have one like this….its one of the hell i ever seen…
Can you PM me for more details of this bike… i appreciate if you could send me more pictures to be place in my room…This is my Dream Bike!!!
You’ve done great!
Cheers,
Nido
January 30th, 2008 at 6:25 amen fin du neuf dans l’univers de la moto. l’aprilia était décevante. ici on a un nouveau concept, un peu comme la katana il y a… quelques années hein
January 30th, 2008 at 7:37 amStarck a beau aimer es motos, mais les dessiner c’est vraiment pas son truc.
January 30th, 2008 at 10:04 ami love the lines of the bike.. and i can imagine sitting high on this thing must feel beautiful.. it has been out for a while now so there is a lot of info out there…
January 30th, 2008 at 2:35 pmin fact i posted it on dec 23…. DEZEEN… where were you??? haha i have a couple other photos so peep.. dailydesignspot.blogspot.com
have a great day everyone!
so nice I wish there were more sexy bikes like this
January 30th, 2008 at 2:45 pmMh, I don’t know…
January 30th, 2008 at 4:24 pmEl diseño es realmente impresionante, es una pieza muy lograda, pero donde se supone que pongo a mi novia..?
January 30th, 2008 at 4:48 pmdefinitely Philip kicked ass again!
January 30th, 2008 at 6:32 pmLooks like a painful riding experience.
January 30th, 2008 at 6:34 pmJust looks like it would hurt to ride.
January 30th, 2008 at 7:53 pmAwesome!!! Very nice Motorcycle…
January 30th, 2008 at 8:08 pmBut, As AFP tells us…where I put my girlfriend? hahaha
71grados
Hmm, I dunno. Naked bikes tend to go fast, and it doesn’t seem like the gas tank is very ergonomic in terms of being able to get your body low over the frame.
Looks great though.
January 30th, 2008 at 9:11 pmAnyone know if Starck is a motorcyclist? I’ve been riding for years and the first thing I thought was, “Ouch.” But hey, I guess this is more for parking and less for riding.
January 31st, 2008 at 6:10 pmthat’s a new concept upon motorbikes … it’s cool as an experiment, I admire it, but not so shure that I will buy it
February 1st, 2008 at 1:08 pmwow!..I love it so much!..a looks of a crossover project between bad boy image and minimalist furniture..I like the simple statement of white simple cross in front,swirling lines on the saddle,bold tank and everything i guess..ha..ha.. LoVe yoUr’s StaRck!
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:02 pmqual preço desta moto? vem parao brasil? posso importar
February 3rd, 2008 at 8:41 pmSorry, but that’s flat-out UGLY. What’s with the bluff slab of a “fairing” at the front? It makes it look like a Cushman Eagle from the ’50s, and that’s not a compliment. And the peak in the rear of the gastank — oh, that’s gonna be really comfortable to have poking you in the gut as you ride. And the stubby cantelevered saddle and stubby mufflers throw the proportions of the whole thing way off.
It’s as if Starck took a fake Ducati and slapped the three ugliest imaginable elements on it (seat, tank, fairing). It’s typical design-for-design’s-sake bullshit from Starck. “Ooh — but it has ‘X’s on it!” Fail.
February 4th, 2008 at 6:27 pmTo Pete S.: Yes, Starck is a rider. Every meeting I’ve had with him has been in Los Angeles and he has a bike. Not one of his own designs though.
I personally love this thing! It does look like it would be painful to ride though.
February 5th, 2008 at 2:33 pmHello, I am desperate to know, find out where I could find, buy Dungarees, Salopettes,Grenouilleres………! of Starck……can anyone help me.
Ps: please e-mail me
Thanks
February 7th, 2008 at 3:56 pmI Like super naked Xv best for its muscular Looking & Power. I want to
February 12th, 2008 at 12:01 pmTake a test drive for feel it.
Admittedly I’m not Starks greatest fan, and I prefer not to leave purely negative comments, but this is a complete travesty against motorbike design. If ever there has been a case of overdesign to the point of it being grotesque then this is it.
February 12th, 2008 at 12:03 pmnice bike. i like it.
February 12th, 2008 at 4:13 pmdo cacete… Com a breca… Que coisa bonita, parabens filipe.
February 13th, 2008 at 3:46 amPLEONASTIC…a moto is not a lamp or a vase or a chair. Leave those thinks at someone other
February 21st, 2008 at 9:23 amView larger image
Renowned French designer Philippe Starck says he is fed up with his job and plans to retire in two years, in an interview published in a German weekly on Thursday.
“I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact,” Starck told Die Zeit weekly newspaper.
“Everything I designed was unnecessary.
“I will definitely give up in two years’ time. I want to do something else, but I don’t know what yet. I want to find a new way of expressing myself …design is a dreadful form of expression.”
Starck, who is known for his interior design of hotels and Eurostar trains and mass consumption objects ranging from chairs to tooth brushes and lemon juice squeezers, went on to say that he believed that design on the whole was dead.
“In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant,” he said.
Starck said the only objects that he still felt attached to were “a pillow perhaps and a good mattress.” But the thing one needs most, he added, was the “ability to love”.
March 27th, 2008 at 11:01 pm