Mother Heart
- June 2006
Mother Heart was Josh's first foray into deliberate biomorphic design. After spending his honeymoon on safari in Kenya and Tanzania he was intrigued by the clear and obvious social order amongst prides and herds and inspired to do a series of bikes based on these concepts - particularly the lion prides. While the females hunted, fed and protected the lion cubs from potential dangers, the males simply watched over the pride and kept other males away. Male had a regal stance, upright and visible to other species for miles around while females assumed a more practical stance, camouflaging themselves in the grass and protecting their young. The males were flashy and seemed to groom themselves more than the females, which is reflected in the choice of polished black nickel for the Father Heart and a much more muted, matte muzzle black for the Mother Heart. The first bikes of our bikes that included both gas power and gas-saving pedal power; they represent an evolving focus on more ecologically sustainable principals and were, in essence, our first hybrids.
Gun black finish on rolled steel, hand-blown glass fuel tank, 80cc gas powered with pedal assist.
