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A Vietnamese motorcycle company has gone and made a beauty of an electric build, merging bold lines with a minimalistic aesthetic that looks like a cleaner, simpler version of the LEGO® Technic
set Yamaha collaborated on for their MT-10 SP.
If you haven’t heard of NUEN, they’ve got a hefty goal: “Designing and building the sleekest and most innovative electric motorcycles for the Vietnamese and Asian markets” (via NUEN)
Their answer to today’s overly-saturated electric motorcycle markets?
A titillating tongue twister: The “NU-E,” NUEN’s new ingénue.
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According to coverage from BikeEXIF, this bike’s initial design came together in less than a month. The NU-E sports a more traditional silhouette, but everything after that is a breath of fresh air; a modular chassis crafted from aviation-grade aluminum provides structure only where needed, while a padded saddle creeps up to mimic a typical gas tank hump.
The “NU-E,” NUEN’s new ingénue. Media sourced from BikeEXIF.
Swedish stoppage has been added via twin six-piston calipers at the front (and a four-piston unit at the rear), while custom yokes hold K-Tech Suspension – to keep everything cushy.
Of course, there’s also a part of this bike (well, several parts) that pull from the lineage of excellent machines that have come before; in this case, rolling duty is donated from Triumph’s Trident 660, while a swingarm from a Yamaha R1 dresses the launch-end and a modified BMW S1000R front fender takes center stage on the front wheel.
The “NU-E,” NUEN’s new ingénue. Media sourced from BikeEXIF.
New clip-ons dressed in Hookie Co. grips, the nifty addition of a QuadLock mount add functionality, and the addition of a clear number board; a quick tidy with a small rear wheel hugger, custom-made foot controls, and an LED taillight that’s Frenched into the tail” brings out that extra zhuzh NUEN needed, too.
The “NU-E,” NUEN’s new ingénue. Media sourced from BikeEXIF.
Speaking of zhuzh, there’s the matter of ponies this bike punts out: 6 kW nominal or 10 kW peak (roughly 13.5hp), good for a max speed of about 93 miles… lack thereof, but still good to know she’s zippy at 353lbs.
By the way, the NU-E’s battery is good for roughly 62 miles of range – and we’re told that that number could very well hop up to 186 miles if in an urban setting.
The “NU-E,” NUEN’s new ingénue. Media sourced from BikeEXIF.
A heads up: The NUEN NU-E (rings off the tongue, doesn’t it) isn’t street legal, so this is a drool-only bike, if you catch my drift; still, if the article is right, the NU-E will soon be followed by a production model and a bigger sibling after that – and I’d be so curious to see what big-displacement electric power would look like with NUEN’s current aesthetic.
The “NU-E,” NUEN’s new ingénue. Media sourced from BikeEXIF.
What do you think of the NUEN “NU-E?”
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set Yamaha collaborated on for their MT-10 SP. If you haven’t heard of NUEN, they’ve got a hefty goal: “Designing and building the sleekest and most innovative electric motorcycles for the Vietnamese and Asian markets” (via NUEN)
Their answer to today’s overly-saturated electric motorcycle markets?
A titillating tongue twister: The “NU-E,” NUEN’s new ingénue.
Click to view slideshow.
According to coverage from BikeEXIF, this bike’s initial design came together in less than a month. The NU-E sports a more traditional silhouette, but everything after that is a breath of fresh air; a modular chassis crafted from aviation-grade aluminum provides structure only where needed, while a padded saddle creeps up to mimic a typical gas tank hump.
The “NU-E,” NUEN’s new ingénue. Media sourced from BikeEXIF.
Swedish stoppage has been added via twin six-piston calipers at the front (and a four-piston unit at the rear), while custom yokes hold K-Tech Suspension – to keep everything cushy.
Of course, there’s also a part of this bike (well, several parts) that pull from the lineage of excellent machines that have come before; in this case, rolling duty is donated from Triumph’s Trident 660, while a swingarm from a Yamaha R1 dresses the launch-end and a modified BMW S1000R front fender takes center stage on the front wheel.
The “NU-E,” NUEN’s new ingénue. Media sourced from BikeEXIF.
New clip-ons dressed in Hookie Co. grips, the nifty addition of a QuadLock mount add functionality, and the addition of a clear number board; a quick tidy with a small rear wheel hugger, custom-made foot controls, and an LED taillight that’s Frenched into the tail” brings out that extra zhuzh NUEN needed, too.
The “NU-E,” NUEN’s new ingénue. Media sourced from BikeEXIF.
Speaking of zhuzh, there’s the matter of ponies this bike punts out: 6 kW nominal or 10 kW peak (roughly 13.5hp), good for a max speed of about 93 miles… lack thereof, but still good to know she’s zippy at 353lbs.
By the way, the NU-E’s battery is good for roughly 62 miles of range – and we’re told that that number could very well hop up to 186 miles if in an urban setting.
The “NU-E,” NUEN’s new ingénue. Media sourced from BikeEXIF.
A heads up: The NUEN NU-E (rings off the tongue, doesn’t it) isn’t street legal, so this is a drool-only bike, if you catch my drift; still, if the article is right, the NU-E will soon be followed by a production model and a bigger sibling after that – and I’d be so curious to see what big-displacement electric power would look like with NUEN’s current aesthetic.
The “NU-E,” NUEN’s new ingénue. Media sourced from BikeEXIF.
What do you think of the NUEN “NU-E?”
*Media sourced from BikeEXIF*
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