BIKES: Ducati Recruits Customizer Fred Krugger for a New Concept XDiavel / Watch an Artist 3D Print His Own Motorbike Taking DIY to the next level
For the latest in its XDiavel line, Ducati has handed creative control to Fred Krugger, one of the
motorbiking world’s best known customizers. The resulting bike is named the Ducati ‘Thiverval’
after a small racetrack on the outskirts of Paris, and was first shown to the world at the recent 2017
Bikers’ Classics Lifestyle Village. Krugger’s twist on the bike features a full exposed engine and
hidden trellis frame to simplify the bike’s lines, while the XDiavel’s superstructures have been
completely rebuilt from the original. The customizer’s aim was to create a power cruiser that would
be imaginative while also keeping its ties to the XDaviel and Ducati’s DNA. This is the third time
that Ducati has produced a concept bike based on the XDiavel, with
Roland Sands putting his spin on the bike and the DraXter by Ducati’s design team.
Ducati has recently been put up for sale by Audi, with the German automobile company
A New York and Connecticut-based artist has decided that the best way to get his hands on a
1972 Honda CB500 was to go about the process of making one for himself. Using open source
3D printers from Ultimaker, Jonathan Brand was able to construct a replica of the motorbike in
PLA plastic — an intricate process that began with the 3D modelling of each individual component
of the bike, before printing out the life size pieces of plastic.
Every element of the freshly-made CB500 was kept at a strict one millimetre thick to maintain an
all-over transparency, with some of the individual pieces taking 24 hours to print. Even after
completing the time-consuming process, Brand still had to take on the unenviable task of assembling
the bike — including the functional rolling wheels — a process you can get to grips with in the video
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