DRAGODESIGN

I've been riding since 10 ,learnt on my dads 1974 Royal Enfield and have been riding since then ,i'm 24 now and have been riding my Gasolina since 1999 ,I used to race 140cc open class on a Yamaha till I met with a near fatal accident that landed me in a hospital for 3 months and a total fracture count of 18 ,I have metal implants in my Left Femur(thigh), Left Tibia(shin) and Right Humerus(arm),Well suprisingly after this incident is when it began; my passion for easy riding ; I was requested never to ride again by all who knew me,but id rather be dead than that.
Just 7 months after the last surgery i hit the highway ,this time my Dad and I rode from Bangalore to Velankanni on a pilgrimage to the church there, what an awesome ride ,we did 420 kms in 7hrs flat ,this is where I learnt the first few rules of the highway from my Dad,who is also an Enfield fanatic ,something about the genes I guess.
Anyways between then and now i have made rides from Bangalore to Goa,Bangalore-Gokarna,Bangalore-Kodai-Munnar,Bangalore-Bandhipur-Ooty,Bangalore-Kerala,Bangalore-Coorg and a lot of week end rides including one to Muthathi with the 60KMPH Biking Club.
In total my Dad and I own three beauties : My Dads '74 royal Enfield,My Gasolina '88 and a '69 Royal Enfield that both of us lovingly restored .
My "Gasolina" and i have been through a lot together and i have never dreamt of living a day without her,together we have endured bad weather and scary ghat sections,punctures ,accidents,and enjoyed crossing state borders and little streams,beautifull sceneries,great corneriing and a few careless slides, you name it we've done it ,me and my "Gasolina".

I have always been fond of drawing and sketching ever since i was a kid and since i have an educational background in mechanical engineering ,the collabration of art and mechanics has always bedazzled me ,A lot of my friends have found my motorcycle designs pretty awesome and so i have decided to show them off .Hope you like the designs ,let me know and maybe with the feedback i can push towards my dream of designing the new shape of the motorcycle of the future.

The Picture above is my rendition of the HONDA CBR600RR .It has been done using MS Paint, i do use Adobe Photoshop and Corel Draw and other programmes but the ones i do with Ms Paint are my favourite because of the simplicity and the fact that you can get exactly what you want with it thus giving you absolute freedom in design.

The Royal Enfield Hot rod

The Royal Enfield in its days was a potent racing machine and was raced many a time and to pay tribute to this Old School Racer and here is what I came up with on MS Paint.

The one above is the Enfield Cafe 350,a twist on the ol Clubman cafe racer from Enfield,here is what I see for Enfields new Cafe 350.

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

Let me know what you think or if u have any suggestions or ideas u think this site is missing let me know at : ricardocapereira@gmail.com