I love great industrial design. It actually puts me in a good mood to discover hitherto undiscovered designers whose work deserves much wider exposure. This motorcycle concept, dubbed “The Slugger” is the work of Swedish designer Mikael Lugnegård, a talented 31 year old with a penchant for automotive and motorcycle design based in Umeå.
The Slugger is a V-Twin powered sportbike concept not dissimilar from something that might come from the mind of Erik Buell. It has a short wheelbase, inverted forks, twin vented discs up front, a rear mono shock and no room for your girlfriend.
I like the fact that this bike isn’t based on some futuristic technology, it’s a bike that could be built tomorrow by people with the engineering chops and that somehow makes it more approachable, more attainable and more appealing.
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