RACER X
BY MARK ATKINSON
FROM SALT LAKE CITY, UT, USA
COURTESY OF MARK ATKINSON
PHOTOS BY JAYCEE LANDSAW
Bonneville veteran Mark Atkinson is no stranger to the unique, and embraced the challenge of building a custom e-bike for Electric Revolution. The Racer X chassis was completely fabricated by Atkinson using ideas unfriendly to production, but exciting to see in the metal, like hubless wheels and duo-pivot servo-controlled steering. Frustrated that many e-bikes look like IC bikes, he veered into unique turf, using an FIM record-holding motor inside his radical aluminum X-frame that looks like no bike ever.
“Electric motorcycles are interesting to me because there are no prior restrictions. Tradition doesn’t really play a roll, besides it needs two wheels. Stylish gas tanks that play such an important style cue on the motorcycles we have looked at for our whole lives are a thing of the past. What new ideas can we implement? Racer-X is my clean sheet vision of an electric motorcycle.” – Mark Atkinson
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