Starck Raving Mad" Customizing the world?s worst bike - motorcycles

Starck Raving Mad" Customizing the world?s worst bike



Remember the Starck-designed Aprilia Moto 6.5" Many were so traumatized by its existence, they’ve struck it from memory.
The British website Visordown was particularly brutal in its appraisal: ?Aprilia commissioned French avant-garde designer of the ’90s, Philippe Starck, to design a motorcycle. What they got was a crime against motorcycling.?

It wasn’t just the Moto 6.5’s looks that counted against it. With power coming from the Aprilia Pegaso 650 cc motor, it wasn’t a particularly exciting ride either. Still, there are some fans out there?like Rick Geall. He’s the founder of Wreckless Motorcycles?a ‘pro-am’ shop in Northamptonshire, England, and he owns a Starck-designed toilet.
With a 1996-model Moto 6.5 in his garage too, Rick was trawling the net for modified 6.5s?of which there are understandably few?when he stumbled upon a rendering by the Australian graphic designer Michael Bretherton. He reached out.
?This was the start of the direction the bike would take,” says Rick. ?Get it sitting low and flat, and making?for want of a better expression?a street racer style bike. A mix of curves and angles, and more aggressive looking.?
?The egg shape frame, the Rotax motor and the oversized, curvy tank were to be the backbone of the build, to provide the echo to the original machine. Everything else was up for grabs.?
Brand new Showa forks designed for the Honda Hornet 600 were grafted on. Wreckless used a Horne...
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