Speed Read, July 16, 2022 - motorcycles

Speed Read, July 16, 2022



We’re shaking things up by dropping our weekly round-up on a Saturday, to make space for an exclusive competition that’s launching tomorrow. Feast your eyes on a mean XJR1300 from Romania, a zesty Dominator flat tracker from Germany, and a short film featuring Untitled’s Zero XP.
But first, a look at Switch’s final, production-ready eScrambler electric bike.

The Switch eScrambler enters production Switch melted our servers when they revealed their eScrambler concept two years ago, and it remains one of our all-time favorite electric customs. Now they’ve put the work in to make that concept production ready.
Switch’s core team consists of founder and lead engineer Matthew Waddick, while ex-Yamaha Japan Advanced Labs designer and former speedway champion, Michel Riis Eriksen, operates as head designer. Every part of this electric scrambler was designed using 3D software before it’s brought to life… but that doesn’t mean it’s just 3D-printed and stuck together.
Making the bike ready for production meant having to produce tooling and molds that Switch’s factory could use to reproduce each part in bulk. But on the up side, Matthew always had production in mind?so much of this was taken into consideration at concept phase.
The team fine-tuned everything from the geometry to electronics to get the eScrambler pitch perfect. The swingarm pivot’s been moved, the rear shock mounts have been relocated, the su...
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