Electric motorcycles tend to look strangely conventional. Even the oddball $60,000 Curtiss Zeus has a ?tank? and a seat where you?d expect them to be.
So although the powertrains are revolutionary, the designs tend to be evolutionary. And we?ve often wondered why. Perhaps motorcyclists are just too conservative"

Mark Atkinson, the bike builder and machinist who built the incredible BMW ?Alpha? Landspeeder, has pondered this question too. And he?s just created this extreme e-bike to find out where the limits of design are.
It?s not practical and it?s no good as a commuter bike, but it?s one of the wildest two-wheeled vehicles we?ve laid eyes on.

So what happened here, Mark"
?A couple of years ago I met one of the engineers from a now defunct e-bike company at a show. He said that even though they made great bikes, they weren?t selling well. He asked what I thought.?
?I told him that electric bikes were an opportunity to do something spectacular. Gas tanks on electric bikes seem silly to me.?
Mark decided to see how far he could push the envelope. ?What would I build if I had no preconceived idea of how a motorcycle is supposed to look"? It would be clean slate design: two wheels and electric power.

Simplicity was Mark?s starting point: He wanted to make the suspension and steering pivot from the same axis. ?I drew an X on a napkin? The pivot point didn’t work in the center, so it got moved as far forward as possible.?
?The steering took some th...