Icy Fresh: the Impuls x BSTN Ducati 916 ‘Concord’
If you?re a sneaker freak, you?ll know all about the Air Jordan XI Concord. Designed by Tinker Hatfield, it?s part of the legend that surrounds basketball player Michael Jordon?and it?s also the most popular model in the iconic Air Jordan range.
Michael Jordan is a keen motorcyclist, and even backed a race team a few years ago. So it feels appropriate that the XI Concord has become the catalyst for a very striking new custom from Impuls of Germany.
The idea came from the German sportswear label and retailer BSTN, and it?s a real light bulb moment.
?Duki from BSTN approached us to build a motorcycle for the release of the Jordan XI Concord,? says Impuls main man Philipp Wulk. ?There would be a video shoot, and we would have just two months for the whole build.?
Philipp suggested the Ducati 916 as the donor bike. ?It was groundbreaking in its own field, as Michael Jordan was in his. So we bought a 1995 model?the same year the XI Concord was first released.?
To meet the deadline, Impuls 3D scanned the Ducati and its famously beautiful fairing at Volke in Munich, who worked on the data for a week. With Philipp’s help, the specialist NeQu then designed and digitally built a fuel tank, a metal fuel cell, a revamped fairing and the front lights.
The files went to Creabis in Munich for printing?a day before Philipp got married. While he was on a brief honeymoon in Paris, his garage partner Matthias started fabricating the metal parts: the rear frame, a base plate for ...
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