It was the fall of 2012. Two friends riding 2 big Harley Davidsons across the USA from New York to Los Angeles. Nearly halfway into the road trip, on the “Extraterrestrial” highway in the hot Nevada desert, they ran critically low on fuel. Jokingly, while managing and minimising their fuel consumption, they discussed the idea of a motorcycle adventure on a capable electric motorcycle. The batteries could be charged using solar panels in the sunny desert.

Quickly it became apparent that hauling along solar panels isn’t a practical solution, still the idea of an electric adventure motorcycle stuck in the back of their minds. In the next years, step by step the idea became more concrete and in 2015 Gilbert quit his job and devoted all his time on this project.

Several passions come together in this development project:

• The passion for motorcycle adventure
• The passion for lightweight & efficiency
• The passion for new concepts, technologies and innovations

The adventure motorcycle project has been financed by performing engineering consultancy assignments for automotive, consumer, marine industry and industrial customers. The focus for these assignments have been on concept development, additive manufacturing (3D printing), composites and material reduction by using generative design and topology optimisation. The knowledge and experience gained with these projects is applied for the motorcycle and vice versa.