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Photographic session (August 19, 2004).

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31st Tokyo Motorcycle Show, Japan (April 2,3,4, 2004).

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KANEDA’S MOTORCYCLE CONCEPT 000-XP

31st Tokyo Motorcycle Show, Japan (April 2,3,4, 2004).

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KANEDA’S MOTORCYCLE CONCEPT 000-XP

31st Tokyo Motorcycle Show, Japan (April 2,3,4, 2004).

More in KMC Website: Neo-Fukuoka page
 

Here below is a fairly definitive list of machines built by Malcolm Newell. (words mostly by Paul Blezard) This was not easy to compile bearing in mind that most of the machines had the same trade number plate on them when being used by Malcolm, probably no chassis plate and certainly no "official" Malcolm-applied serial number. This list is quite old now. Can anyone fill in more detail?

Paul Blezard's potted FF history
I've been riding scooters and motorcycles for over 40 years and writing about FFs for more than 30. I was 'turned on' to FFs by reading Royce Creasey's HighTech articles in Bike magazine in 1979-80 and by meeting Malcolm Newell with the Cibie Z13 Phasar at the first NEC motorcycle show in 1981. I have ridden a very high percentage of the FFs to be seen on this site, (something like 50 in all), and had articles published about most of them.

This spark-filled photo of me in the Quasar was taken by Kel Edge for Bike magazine in August 1984.
The location was the roundabout on the A4 closest to Avebury and Silbury Hill. The machine was Neil Vass's, (then Shawn Grinter's, now in the National Motorcycle Museum) which Neil had generously lent me while he went off to South America.

This club was started in 1995 by a group of enthusiasts for Feet First motorcycles and scooters. The simplest way to describe a Feet First or "FF" machine is as a "Two Wheeled Car" in the most positive sense of the phrase. In other words an FF is a Powered Two Wheeler that is safe, warm dry and comfortable, but which can still nip in and out of town traffic and scratch with the best of them on the open road. It will also use less fuel and go faster than a conventional motorcycle with the same engine thanks to improved aerodynamics.

FFs have been around since the Wilkinson of 1909, the Neracar of the 1920s and the pioneering Avro Monocar of 1926. Gustav Baumm's record breaking NSU Flying Hammocks of the 1950s were the first "ultimate" FFs, proving that a recumbent riding position was the most efficient aerodynamically (200mph with 40bhp). All record breakers since, from the original 1956 Triumph Bonneville to the present, have been FF.