It can provoke a mocking smile when we are almost 25 years into the 21st century but there was a time when the year 2000 seemed like a limit beyond which no one dared to imagine what things would be like.
Motorcycle brands also began to do so in the mid-80s when it was perceived that a generational change in tastes was taking place that was going to make designs that to date seemed untouchable, actually were not.
Electronics reached mass consumption with the first personal computers, the conquests of the space shuttles had made the aerospace adventure fashionable again, and the phenomenon of global television, video clips, and movies proposed new aesthetics that were enthusiastically received.
With all these arguments in mind, the designers got down to work to try to come up with the aesthetic formula for the motorcycle of the 21st century. And it is in this context that we must situate and understand some results that today may seem like something out of a B-sci-fi movie but at that time seemed to make perfect sense.
Prototypes and “concept-bikes” that dared to imagine the future and looked at the 2000 with a pioneering spirit.
