In the post showing off the bike, the Vita Veloce team confirms that the design is heavily inspired by the 1988 anime movie ...

Built in collaboration with the singer, J Balvin, the DAB 1α Akira bike is described as being “Part sculpture, part anime, and fully rideable.” ...

You can even count the speeder bikes from Return of the Jedi. It was the golden age of tricked-out movie cycles. But none are as cool as Kanada’s futuristic red motorcycle from Akira.

Over on Twitter, Murata took fans by surprise by posting a black-and-white sketch he did ... dystopian future, Akira tells the story of a teenager named Shotaro who runs a bike gang.

The Watabe connection is also something that I thought might have a hand in the design of things such as Kaneda’s bike from Akira but it seems that came from elsewhere. As I knew we would ...