Every decade or so we get ourselves in "eco-frenzy", green this and that. Motorbikes included in those this n' thats.

Far as electric motorcycles go there's a few commercial players out there like Erntia's Brammo and Zero Motocycle's offerings. Even some recently defunct ones like Vectrix. There's certainly interests from multiple sources, either it bye from the established industry of manufacturers to the armchair engineer in his garage.

Much like when the first automobiles, it was competition that leads to innovation. When there were hundreds of small time companies making cars trying to cut themselves a chunk of the buying marke t. Pioneering ideas with success and even failures. Ideas borrowed and stolen, improved upon and cutting a path for better products.

The British company Ariel who made bicycles, automobiles and motorcycles, invented the wire spoke wheel. An innovation that made motorcycles how we know them today possible.

It's guys like Patmont Motor Werks who make these kind of innovations. With contributions to the future and make history. Paramont Motor Werks' Shocker is set up as a tri-sport (street, dirt and freestyle) giving a lot of flexibility between charges. Sporting a brushless motor that acts as a brake for regenerative braking.

Most notable is the suspension, no tubes, shocks or springs. What they're calling 'Cantilevered Independent Dynamic Linkless Indispension" or CDLI. Giving it a huge span of travel, 13.5" front and 13.5" again in the rear. The front fork gives it a lot of dynamic anti-dive properties, it's so alien looking that it makes me nervous to look at. Watching the videos of the bike in action, it looks as if this suspension does a really kick ass job.

Steering is like any other bike as far as the operator, but the mechanical bits are managed by a hidden cantilever bar and throttle is wireless.

Still a prototype, with their hopes to come to market sometime in the next year. No price has been suggested or even hinted at yet. I'll be excited to see how it all pans out, the future is great for those who live to see it unfold.