Mac Motorcycles of England has just introduced its self to the world. Worcestershire based company distinguishes its product with a range of cool little café racer concepts. This creation is the result of the collaboration between the successful furniture maker Ellis Pitt and upstart studio Xenophya Design.
Mac’s motorcycles range is available in 4 different models that include “Spud”, “Ruby″, “Pea Shooter″ and the “Roarer″.
All models are powered by the air-cooled single-cylinder 500cc engine from Buell Blast. This engine in the standard version delivers 34bhp. The upgraded engine up to 50bhp is also available for those seeking the more powerful engine. To customize the engine, Mac Motorcycles ensure that the usual aftermarket part is suitable for this new bike.
The engine is housed on a bespoke tubular steel backbone frame. Mac’s creation will be priced from $12,700 to $16,000 depending on spec and for a while is available for the UK, North American and European markets.
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Mac Motorcycles Introduces New British Bikes
A collaboration between one of the UK’s leading motorcycle design studios, Xenophya Design and Ellis Pitt has led to the launch of a new British motorcycle company called ‘Mac Motorcycles.’
Ellis has collaborated with the team at Xenophya for the past 9 months to design a small range of lightweight, air-cooled singles using the 500cc Buell ‘Blast’ motor in a tubular backbone frame.
Ellis explains “Between us we’d designed, modified, built and ridden all sorts of motorcycles over the last 30 years and thought it was time to produce a motorcycle that reflected our philosophy. Our influences have been diverse and we’ve made unusual connections between genres of motorcycles such as choppers, Italian singles from the 1950s, flat-trackers and competition specials. What underpins Mac Motorcycles’ philosophy though is the belief that the riding experience and the stories that go with motorcycle journeys seem to have been hijacked by technology and plastic.”
There are 4 different models ; ‘Spud’, for dossing about on, ‘Ruby’, the motorcycle equivalent of ‘the girl-next-door’, ‘Peashooter’, for squirting to your favourite pub and gassing with your mates and the ‘Roarer’, a modern-day dinosaur-chaser! The company initially plans to produce a few hundred bikes in small batches increasing production as appropriate.
During the last recession, Ellis, a product designer by background, grew his family’s business into a successful furniture manufacturing business before selling it in 1995. Since then he has combined work as a business adviser with design thinking, frequently developing successful products through a number of UK high street retailers.
Based in the small English town of Upton-Upon-Severn in Worcestershire, Mac Motorcycles plan to market this unique new range of motorcycles throughout the world. Bikes will be made in small batches for markets in the UK, North America and Japan, with customers in France and Australia in-mind too. Depending on your preferred specification and tuning options, you could expect to buy any one of these bikes for between £ 8k - £ 10k.
Ellis explains “We would welcome comments and enquiries from your readers and we’ll be happy to keep you posted as we start building a little more of Great Britain’s motorcycle history.”
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