Tom Dixon creates tradition bike for Moto Guzzi named Tomoto

Patterned rims, bespoke Pirelli tyres, uncooked aluminium and a signature lamp for a headlight characteristic in Tom Dixon’s tradition Moto Guzzi bike, which was once on display all through Milan design week.

Moto Guzzi introduced the Tomoto bike in a single room of Dixon‘s huge Multiplex exhibition – a show off of recent design through Dixon and several other handpicked small studios, which took over the Fifties Teatro Manzoni cinema.

Dixon was once impressed to embark at the collaboration following a lifelong hobby for bikes, which he credit for beginning his design occupation.

“I have had the similar Moto Guzzi for 27 years, and it was once time for a brand new one,” Dixon informed Dezeen. “I have all the time tinkered with motorbikes. They had been all the time more or less antique or collapsing, and I learnt to weld at the foundation that I used to be going to mend a motorcycle.”

“I by no means fastened a motorcycle, however I had an entire new occupation in making factor, which has become a design occupation,” he persisted.

“The affection of bikes hasn’t ever abated, and once I had the chance to seek advice from the manufacturing facility, which is an awesome report of Twenties production – it is nonetheless made in the similar manufacturing facility, simply 20 mins away within the hills above Lake Como – I controlled to persuade them to let me tinker with one.”

The ensuing tradition motorbike was once created in conjunction with famend customiser Stefano Venier. Amongst its options are aluminium wheel rims with a star-like geometric trend created as a part of Dixon’s experiments with virtual punching era.

The similar untreated aluminium, undecorated, is used for the fuel tank, which bears the inscriptions “Guzzi” and “Tomoto” in dripping hot-pink paint.

One in every of Dixon’s older pendant designs, the Fin, is repurposed for the headlight, whilst a versatile exhaust pipe wraps across the bike frame from the engine.

The motorbike is done with new prototype tyres Dixon evolved thru a 2nd collaboration, with Milan-based tyre producer Pirelli. Dixon evolved plenty of tread patterns for the logo, which Dixon describes as “any other myth company, an Italian vintage”.

Whilst the 2 collaborations may evolve into additional tasks at some point, the present iteration of Tomoto is a prototype and show type.

“The trouble with doing a correct manufacturing bike with Moto Guzzi is that each time you do anything else greater than mainly converting the fairing or the seat, you must put it thru an entire new EU trying out regime,” Dixon stated.

“So you’ll’t truly trade a large number of elements, no longer even the exhaust pipe, with out going thru the entire EU strategy of going thru all of the norms. So it is fairly tricky to do an all-new type.”

Moto Guzzi displayed Tomoto inside The Rubber Store, one room inside Dixon’s Multiplex. The Milan design week set up ran from April 4 to 9 on the Teatro Manzoni on By means of Manzoni 42.

Dixon is likely one of the UK’s hottest and prolific designers, and just lately got here in fourth on Dezeen’s designers Scorching Checklist. Self-taught, he rose to popularity within the Nineteen Eighties with the S-Chair for Cappellini and based his eponymous studio in 2002.

At Multiplex, Dixon additionally introduced his Delaktig settee for IKEA, which is designed to be reworked into other kinds of furnishings over the process its lifetime, in addition to a number of new lights designs.

A few of the smaller design studios presenting their paintings within the shopfronts of Teatro Manzoni was once Iota, a Tel Aviv-based social endeavor that makes use of crochet to make use of and empower out-of-work girls.