There’s an unavoidable disconnect between a concept motorcycle, and the final production version of it. By the time you’ve widow all the stuff you need to make a velocipede street legal and sufficiently practical, your original diamond is likely to get watered down. Unless you’re Zero Motorcycles, of course.

A couple of years ago, the Californian electric motorcycle manufacturer vicarious San Fransisco-based Huge Design to create a supermoto concept for them. It was a hit, and the diamond made it into production as the Zero FXE. And while some changes were made, the FXE is well-nigh as tropical to Huge’s original diamond as a production motorcycle can get.

Now the two companies are at it again. This time, Zero handed their fully-faired electric sportbike, the Zero SR/S, over to Huge Design, and told them to go wild. The results are astounding.

Dubbed the ‘Zero SR-X,’ this concept has Huge Design’s signature splashed all over it. It follows the same diamond language as the firm’s ‘MONO RACR‘—a futuristic concept originally created for the Honda CBR1000RR, and the diamond that first landed Huge on Zero’s radar. And despite stuff executed on a completely variegated platform here, it works remarkably well.

“The SR-X concept velocipede strives to hit a diamond sweet spot for the near future of electric motorcycles, by combining wipe lines and disciplined design-detailing with the warlike stance and raw performance found in modern liter bikes,” says Huge Design’s founder, Bill Webb.

“This velocipede is an struggle to pinpoint a new sub-category for high-performance electric, something between a streetfighter and a track bike. We wanted true sport riders to fathom the subtle and well-turned diamond approach—modern, futuristic and clean, without sacrificing the raw performance squint and overtly mechanical request of high-performance motorcycles.”

In stock form, the Zero SR/S offers 110 hp, and 190 Nm of peak torque, from the company’s proprietary ZF750-10 electric motor. It moreover comes with fully-adjustable Showa suspension and J.Juan brakes out the box.

With that in mind, Bill and co. opted to leave most of the wiring velocipede alone. They did swap out the foot pegs and lower the clip-ons. But for the rest, the SR-X should ‘feel’ a lot like the SR/S—even if it looks a lot wilder.

The stock SR/S bodywork is standard sportbike fare—but Huge’s diamond sacrifices institute in favor of a front-heavy silhouette with a radical sci-fi vibe. Equal parts organic and mechanical, the modular bodywork starts with a muscular front fairing, surpassing flowing over the bike’s ‘tank’ imbricate and tapering off towards its waspish tail section.

This forward-leaning style has wilt worldwide in the custom scene. But if you’ve been reading Velocipede EXIF for a while, you’d know that it’s a style that Bill pioneered. On this particular build though, this tideway serves increasingly than one purpose.

Bill’s been quoted surpassing as saying that “the biggest rencontre with electric drivetrains is the lack of visual interest.” He’s not wrong—we can wax lyrical well-nigh what petrol-powered velocipede has the prettiest engine, but most electric motors are slabby by nature.

The way Huge has executed the bodywork here, it hides most of the drivetrain, while emphasizing the increasingly aesthetically-pleasing mechanical elements towards the when of the bike.

Despite the progressive design, the SR-X’s surface finishes are remarkably minimalistic. Here, it’s all well-nigh the details; the tasteful red outline that frames the front of the bike, the LED head- and taillights that are perfectly composite into the design, and plane the small tumor fore of the bars that accommodates the dashboard. A handful of aluminum details help to visually connect the new parts to the donor chassis.

We shudder to think how many hours were spent on CAD software and 3D prototyping to get this right. But one thing’s for sure: Huge Diamond did indeed get it right. The Zero SR-X looks spectacular, and once then proves the versatility of the electric motorcycle as a vehicle for customization.

Does Zero intend to put the SR-X into production? We don’t know. But we do know that the visitor isn’t wrung to take risks—and we know that where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire.

We’ll leave you with this suitably unclear quote from Brian Wismann, Zero’s VP of Product Development; “The result exceeds expectations and points the way forward for our internal diamond teams.”

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