$46K Langen LightSpeed Is as Aggressive as Only Ice-Powered Motorcycles Can Be
The name Langen Motorcycles probably doesn't mean a lot of things to many of us, given how the company was only established in 2018 and hasn't been in the news…
$46K Langen LightSpeed Is as Aggressive as Only Ice-Powered Motorcycles Can Be
The name Langen Motorcycles probably doesn't mean a lot of things to many of us, given how the company was only established in 2018 and hasn't been in the news all that much. But given what these guys are doing, they might soon mean a lot more.
Langen is already on the market with a motorcycle called Two Stroke. It's a limited-run beast with a relatively small engine, just 250cc, but given how the powerplant is based on something that was born as "a side project in the Ferrari factory," it’s quite something: it delivers 94 horsepower on a ride that weighs just 114 kg (251 pounds). That's about as much as many full-grown humans weigh!
We don't know the exact production and financial numbers the Two Stroke was able to generate, but Langen claims it was so successful it more than warranted a second model.
It is called LightSpeed 1200 (LS-12), and it will be shown for the first time this weekend at the Motorcycle Live event taking place in Birmingham, the UK, as a "head-turning street bike the likes of which have never been seen before."
The bike is built around a high tensile steel tubular space frame, which in turn is dressed in carbon fiber bodywork. It looks like a mean-ified Ducati but at the same time it's an all-original, hand-built bike.
The frame was gifted with an engine sourced from Buell and further tweaked by Langen. It's liquid-cooled, in a transverse 72-degree V-Twin configuration. At its finest, it is capable of generating 185 hp at the crank at 10,600 rpm. That translates, says proudly the company behind the bike, into 1,000 hp per ton of motorcycle.
Elsewhere, Ohlins front forks and rear shock absorbers help with the ride's performance on whatever terrain the wheels roll over, and Hel braking hardware is on deck for stopping power.
Exciting as it may sound, the Langen LightSpeed is nowhere near being ready to be admired on the road. Although the British company has..
