Hugo Eccles, co-founder of Untitled Motorcycles and designer of the XP Zero and the Hyper Scrambler, discusses the imaginaries of industrial design and how they might take flight, if only we can unleash ourselves from past constraints and open to new relations with what we use and make. Our objects should not be one-night-stands, Hugo says; they should change together through space and time. Quite often we build first and write the script after the fact, but as Hugo explains, the real job is "to write the play, then build the props".

Hugo and Andrea also talk about the addiction of torque, why electric designs don't need to look like petrol, exploding B2B (business to business) and B2C (business to consumer) models, the conceit of gravity feed, and why using old methodologies to create something new may not be beneficial. 

Hugo gives us some insight about what forever, sustainable motoring might mean-- “You can’t build for where they are now, you have to build for where they're going to be.”

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The blog post we discuss, first published in Meta Magazine and 'reprinted' here:
https://www.advrider.com/electric-dreams/

The XP Zero:
https://www.untitledmotorcycles.com/umc063-zero-xp-experimental

The Hyper Scrambler on Jay Leno's Garage.

More cool videos:
https://vimeo.com/hugoeccles

The art of Marcello Gandini.

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“Glenn Curtiss was more important to modern flight than the Wright brothers,” says this week's guest, Lawrence Goldstone, the award-winning author (or co-author with his wife Nancy) of more than twenty books.

We talk about Glenn Curtiss, the Wrights brothers and early flight; Lefty Gomez stopping the 1937 World Series to watch a plane, and the daredevil Lincoln Beachey. We also talk about what it means to have a healthy disrespect for authority; law, language, and ideals; justice, and why "wisdom is the willingness to look at things differently.”

Of his books, here we focus mainly on this transportation trilogy--

Birdmen: The Wrights Brothers, Glenn Curtiss, and the Battle to Control the Skies.

Drive! Henry Ford, George Selden, and the Race to Invent the Auto Age

Going-Deep John Holland and the Invention of the Attack Submarine.

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We also mention The Drunkard's Walk.

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Leona Chin is one of the most famous motorsport athletes in the world, a reality TV star in China and Malaysia, and a mentor to young women in Asia who want to go into motorsports. She's also a world class Drifter. It all started when she convinced her mother to let her buy a Nissan 180 SX...

Watch the opening spoof with over 20 million views here on the video version of this podcast.

Leona Chin on the Porsche EV trip.

Here is the Student Driver spoof, the first of her commercials to trend with hundreds of millions of views.

The fall and the Chinese reality TV show we discuss is here.

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This episode is about the feeling of being alive, and the flow of time, style, and sensuality. Looking back at the ways we've moved means looking back at what matters.  Paul d'Orleans is an exceptional traveler and guide along these paths. As an artist, author, entrepreneur, rider, motorcycle historian, and curator, he has found ways to connect and inspire us, way-making towards greater potential and understanding, saving exceptional stories and images from being forgotten. His work and the work of his team at The Vintagent and the Motor/Cycle Arts Foundation are treasures towards forever motoring.

Link here to an article about Paul in Classic Driver.

Read some of Paul's Cycle World articles.

Watch the panel discussion of Electric Revolutionaries here.

Find the Vintangent and Paul on Instagram.

Check out the film Impatience that we discuss.

Here's The Sex Machine, the first article written about the experience of having an orgasm while  on a motorcycle.

Gestalten's gorgeous books The Ride and The Current (in collaboration with Paul).

Taschen's incredible Ultimate Motorcycle Collection (in collaboration with Paul).

Here is the NPR episode on parking he discusses: How Parking Explains the World.

Watch the following videos to learn more about two extraordinary humans we discuss, Richard Vincent and Samuel Aboagye.

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Our website is Forever Motoring.

Link here to the Motorcycle Arts Foundation.

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Jordan Cornille, the calm, composed, creative co-founder of Curtiss Motorcycles, opens us to the dreamscape of motoring. We talk about the ways dreams come true, how motoring has become the terrain of his own career as a designer and motoring strategist, and the importance of reframing the role motoring plays in our lives. We also discuss how all this might move us towards a more sustainable global future.

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Celebrated journalist and racer 'Sir' Alan Cathcart brings the many worlds of motorcycling together through his riding and his writing.

In this episode, we talk about the power of translation, "your thrill & your enjoyment", a shocking sensory experience from the Isle of Mann, and what it means to make your hobby into your livelihood. Alan also tells us why the answer is electric, but the longterm also has to include hydrogen.

Check out the Bike Talk Alan Cathcart Interview.

Read some of his writings by finding them at Muck Rack or in The Motorcyclist.

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Learning how to ride is learning how to live, says Stefy Bau, one of the all-time greats in motocross--winner of 3 World Championships, the Loretta Lynn, and many more. We discuss her career-ending injury and the life-lessons taught to us all by motorsports. We also discuss her time as CEO of an electric bike company, her new company, INIT (now the official AMA E-sports powerhouse for sim racing) and all the many 'firsts' Stefy has made for women in motorsports.

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Ace Cafe, the home of motoring, birth of the Cafe Racer, the place where Mods, Rockers, The Who, streamline modern, and the new electric rebels of London all live and intersect. 

Speed is an addiction for Mark Wilsmore, the man who brought the Ace (back) to life. Per usual, we also talk about the edge: "the closer you get to death, the greater you value life." 

Have a look at all the places you can now find the Ace, from Kuala Lumpur to Orlando, but the real beating heart and history of motoring is just off London’s North Circular Road.

Have a look at some photos from the 2009 resurrection here on The Motorcyclist.

Watch the full videos of the Ford car night at the Ace excerpted in our YouTube video.

Watch "the best party in town" Ace bike night footage here.

And here's a great piece to watch on the Mods & Rockers.

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Artist, designer, and engineer JT Nesbitt discusses why the high stakes of motorcycling make it one of the highest forms of art, and how sustainability requires a radical shift of perspective. JT's most recent bike is the Curtiss 1, a light electric vehicle (LEV) that rethinks what forever motoring really means.

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