The One Moto Show is a cornucopia of analog delights, gleaming with metalflake and raw, hand-beaten bodywork. But there was an interloper lurking amongst the chrome and carburetors: this futuristic Zero from Huge Moto of San Francisco.
As soon as the Zero was revealed, it starting popping up everywhere on social media. So we dropped a line to Huge Moto?s boss, Bill Webb, to get the story on this surprise hit?and the very 21st century design process.

?Zero reached out to us a couple years ago, after you featured our ?MONO RACR? Honda CBR,? Bill told us. ?We ended up working on some projects together, and hopefully some of our design influence will be seen on the next generation bikes.?
Then Bill asked Zero if Huge could build a custom bike as a side project. A 2018 FXS soon arrived, along with its CAD files.
The FXS is Zero?s entry-level model: a commuter bike with supermoto styling that costs just $10,495?a little less than a Sportster 1200 Custom. Range in the city is somewhere up to 100 miles (you can get models with a much larger range) and weight is a commendable 293 lb (133 kg).
Bill and his team slowly began to work on concepts for the custom. As the bike began to take shape in CAD, there was growing interest from Zero HQ in helping to finish the FXS and get a public reaction.

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