V-REX - Tim Cameron's next big design

Skeletor

The first in the series, designed more than three years ago, Skeletor is a real throwback featuring a skeletal, single-plane frame constructed in high-tech honeycomb carbon materials bonded to alloy skin on either side, slicing the machine in half visually from headlight straight through to swingarm.

A U-shaped radiator hides part of the airbox and the EFI workings are well hidden inside the rounded housing behind the cylinder head. A small Buell-style under engine exhaust almost drags along the ground. Various other styling elements come from all sorts of different machines such as flat trackers, scramblers, trailbikes and even modern mountain bikes.

The idea of the frame continuing forward and extending further than the steering head invited a reaching, head-forward hopeful and slightly aggressive attitude. Not really a sportsbike, not really a retro-sled either, skeletor is 100% streetbike which attempts to involve technology as an aesthetic force. Camel Spider

Following BMW’s successful lead of packaging its dual-purpose GS series as sophisticated yet tough technological marvels, Cameron has used the single cylinder off-road Camel Spider to showcase some novel suspension ideas as well as show off the use of polished alloy and punched metal elements as aesthetic components fitting the rugged theme.

The ‘slider’ front end is composed of hollowed out billet pieces with hidden suspension units rolling on compact, high-tech bearings. The ‘gearcase’ rear suspension comprises a gear train effectively driven by suspension forces in a sealed hydrualic fluid bath which transfers suspension loads laterally to an internal torsion spring unit as well as acting upon a damping. This use of hydraulics is in keeping with fluid drive used to send power to the rear wheel also in evidence. Lo-Go

The newest of the three designs, The single cylinder powerplant is now an integral part of the frame. It has been laid forward as a horizontal unit filling up the stretched out custom-style wheelbase. Twin radiators either side of the shrouded barrel become a part of the lines and the substantial box-section frame doubles as both an airbox and storage area for electronics, EFI components and the compact battery unit.

The lines get a real shake up with the addition of forklegs that develop from cylindrical to ellipsoid as they approach the triple tree and feature ‘winglets’ on their rear edges which help merge the lines of the kicked out front end back into the tank. Power transfer is via a shaft drive in the single sided swingarm. The seat’s material extends all the way up and over the tank where it meets the compact LCD instrument package.

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