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The last Center Hub Steering MOTO2 3D ready for download

Carlos Beltrán — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 12:55:50 +0000

Hi everyone!

The last release of the Center Hub Steering MOTO2 3D (iges) is online!
To get it you must register in www.lamoto2.es, download filezilla or other FTP client.

ftp.lamoto2.es

Password: hoya.cadu

Be carefull if Filezilla tries to set a port number. The port box must be clear.

Go to archivos3D/moto24_09_11.zip

And you got it!

Please keep sharing your designs and ideas!

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Beltrance’s first bodywork proposal for the Center-Hub-Steering MOTO2

Carlos Beltrán — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:16:34 +0000

Hi everyone!

As you probably know our Center Hub Steering Moto2 project continues. We’re closing the mechanical design and so we have to started with the bodywork design.

I’ve made the first 3D proposal but as it is an open design project everybody can send designs and people will choice. It’s just I quick draft that I’ll improve if there are no more ideas coming. Do you like it? Too heavy looking? Too complex?

At the moment there is only another design. What do you think about it?

If you’re interested in designing the bodywork for our race bike you can send me your ideas to info@beltrance.com and I’ll publish them in www.lamoto2.es

I think that is a great opportunity to design something that is going to be built and that is going to have a lot of repercussion. Or simply because it’s a great pleasure to see your design running really fast! Please don’t worry if you don’t draw well or don’t know about 3D, we will help you with your design as much as we can.

And remember that you can also help with the mechanical design and the calculus.

Here there is a pic to use as underlay.

And now let’s have a strong coffee and let’s work!

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The new RAD02 Corsa Evo by Radical Ducati & Beltrance.com

Carlos Beltrán — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:09:49 +0000

Some time ago Pepo Rosell, owner of Radical Ducati, told me that he was working in a beautiful new bike. And here it is, the new RAD02 Corsa Evo where you can find the carbon fiber solo seat that I designed and modelled in clay for him. Now it’s retouched to fill some slight bumps and looks really streamlined. I hope you like this bike and remember that you can buy the seat that can be used in some of the standard Ducati models. And of course you can also buy the bike if you like it! You can see the rest of the pictures in Radical Ducati Blog.
I’ve also found a new video about the RAD02 Corsa Evo PURSANG. Enjoy it!

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New attempt to win the Sikorsky Prize, the Gamera Human Powered Helicopter

Carlos Beltrán — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:11:52 +0000

Unfortunately I’m back from holydays, back to satellites and back to bikes! Even if I love the work I do, I prefer travelling and having a good time with my friends and my girl. Well, I’m human…

But after this short summer I’ve got a lot of things to do and some interesting news.
And talking about humans… Here’s a new human powered helicopter to beat the Sikorsky prize. One of my favourites challenges. The approach to the project it’s far from the idea I have to beat it, but it’s obviously good because it’s a new world record. If you work on the hover that offers the ground effect you won’t take off over 3 meters tall as the prize claims. But anyway I think that these guys have taken a good way just by attempting it. If they continue developing this helicopter they will reach a difficult record to beat.

Don’t miss the previous article about human powered helicopters and other vehicles.

At this moment we have no time and no money to attempt to win this prize but we’re working in other interesting prize that you’ll know soon!

Now motorbikes and e-bikes are the main focus of our work.

Don’t miss the latest pictures in www.lamoto2.es of our Center Hub Steering Moto2 and please share your ideas.

Here is the official web of the project

Enjoy your coffee!

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The first Centre Hub Steering Moto2 it’s on the racetrack and it’s not our bike!

Carlos Beltrán — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:38:34 +0000

The new Vyrus MOTO2 with Centre Hub Steering it’s on the racetrack and it seems that couls be the surprise for the next year.

Do you think it will race the next year Moto2 worl championship? Do you think it can win races? Watch this videos and please send your opinions, as you can imagine they are very important for us in this case.

The only thing I can say in this moment it’s that looks as a master piece of engineering.

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A weekend at Silverstone. (World SuperBikes Championship)

Carlos Beltrán — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:33:30 +0000

As I told you in the latest short posts I’ve been to the Silverstone racetrack to enjoy a wonderful races weekend. We had barely complete access to the Honda team box and we could also see the other teams’ boxes. I’ve met journalist of other countries and so I have learnt a bit more about this great job.

I arrived to the airport and a chauffeur in a black E class Mercedes was waiting for me, nice beginning…

After some traffic jam we arrived to the paddock and then to the Honda-Castrol hospitality, our headquarters.

Unfortunately Xaus wasn’t there, his back is still bad. Too bad to fly from Spain. In other hand Jonathan Rea, also injured, was there to answer our question about the team and the bikes. We meet also Alex Lowes (Rea substitute) and Fabrizio Lai (substitute of Xaus substitute (Karl Muggeridge). Karl Had a bicycle crash. Really a bad year for TenKate Castrol Honda Team. Well, continuing with this luck, also Lowes hits the ground and breaks it first bike.

But obviously the best won. Checa won! 2 of 2 races, great!

And the BMWs finished next. Why is the Superbikes dominated by European bikes? That’s a difficult question to answer…

The Ducati is a completely different bike, 2 cilynders and rear one sided swingarm, and the only one with tubular frame. Here the work of the performance engineers it’s really important but also the base bike must have an amazing performance to reach to a good level. Think I love more about the races was the equilibrium between the bikes. No big difference makes these races quite interesting to see.

I think WSBK have a new follower…

Far from the chauffeur, the amazing Spa Hotel , the food and that insignificant staff, I went to get the most info I could about the bikes. I took thousand of pictures of rear suspensions and swing arms and I’ll try to apply all that information in LAMOTO2. Don’t miss it!

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Bad Luck for Castrol Oil Pilots

Carlos Beltrán — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:16:01 +0000

Lowes and Fabrizio are both out after several crashes.

But Checa it’s now first :-)

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From Silverstone Covering the Word SuperBikes Championship

Carlos Beltrán — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:11:46 +0000

Thanks to Castrol Oils and LA MOTO Magazine!

Pics and More info during this week, now I’ll enjoy the races…

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Last flight of the Atlantis. And now what?

Carlos Beltrán — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:47:00 +0000

After several years making us dream, we wake up into the reality…

Via NASA

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Ariane 5 (Astra 1N Mission) delayed

Carlos Beltrán — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 13:48:53 +0000

Last nigth the Astra 1N mission failed so we closed early the NewConceptsCafe. One Valve of the Ariane 5 was the problem. We will have to wait about 20 days to see the launch.
Here is the press release of ArianeSpace and at the end of it you can find a very interesting link about the mission:

Mission Update

Ariane 5’s launch is postponed approximately 20 days for a component change-out

July 2, 2011 – Ariane Flight VA203

Arianespace’s Ariane 5 mission with the ASTRA 1N and BSAT-3c/JCSAT-110R satellite will be delayed to allow a valve replacement for the launcher’s cryogenic core stage, which follows an anomaly that interrupted the final countdown yesterday in French Guiana.

To replace this valve – which did not function properly – Ariane 5 will be transferred from the Spaceport’s ELA-3 launch zone back to the Final Assembly Building.

Arianespace estimates that the valve’s replacement, along with the associated operations, will require approximately 20 days, with a new launch date to be announced shortly.

During the current operations, the Ariane 5 and its two satellite payloads are being maintained in fully safe conditions.

See the official Arianespace launch kit for further details on this mission.

Will keep updating about one of our passions as it is the space race
And what happens with LAMOTO2 Soon you’ll have interesting releases…

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