While spending a couple of days at the annual EAA Airventure I stumbled upon this folding motorcycle and storage system.  Every pilot needs good transportation when he arrives at his destination. 

The motorcycle was a Yamaha dual sport motorcycle around 250 cc.  When I was talking with the Motopod staff they had not settled on a motorcycle for the final version.  It will be some road legal dirt bike style motorcycle because they tend to be lightweight.  They take the large knobby tires off and replace them with good road tires and add a quick release to the front wheel.  Motopod designed a folding handlebars that lock solidly in place to make the bike fit into their pod.

The pod is made out of nice composite materials, is fairly aerodynamic and can be painted to match the airplane.  The locking system looked like it would stay in place trough just about anything.  I particularly like the winch system for hoisting the pod up.

Motopod has designed this unit for the bottom of airplanes however I think there are other places this could be used.  There is plenty of room under the average semi trailer to secure this pod. 

It will be interesting to see how Motopod is doing in a year or so.  I think they have a good idea but I don’t know if it will catch on.