“I had always loved the idea of combining all the different styles of bikes that I love into one. I love the performance and raw purpose-built look of race bikes. I love the honesty, nostalgia and subtle simplicity of a stripped down classic café. I also love the f-u attitude of a mean-ass streetfighter (minus the skull headlights and cheesy details). My goal with this project was to make a perfect blend of sport/café/fighter in a subtle “out of the factory” way,” said Billy Webb of Huge Design.

“I have obsessed over other people’s builds, what I liked …what I didn’t. I figured out that the one area where all other “racebike turned naked street bike” failed is in the subframe/seat. You can pretty easily clean-up the front, black out the radiator, and get some trick lights/bars that replace the front fairing…but the tail execution almost always looks like crap. That’s when I decided I would use my skills as an Industrial Designer to actually design the subframe in my 3D CAD software that I normally use for projects at work.

I took a ton of measurements of the ZX7 frame and tank. I settled on the Ducati 1098 seat as the perfect silhouette that would match the tank and took a ton of 3D measurements of that. [I then] set off designing the subframe to seat interface, designing the inside as well…allow mounting room for all the electronics that needed to fit in this tiny solo-seat part.”

Materials courtesy Moto-Mucci