This Royal Enfield motorcycle wrapped in clay, resin, and stone redefines functional art

Milan Design Week 2025 has just witnessed one of the coolest motorbike mods you’ll come across for its sheer design value. Royal Enfield took to the mega design event with an otherworldly reinterpretation of the Flying Flea FF.C6 model, virtually turning it into a canvas for art. The feat was achieved in a collaboration with Italian-born LA artist Mattia Biagi, who has experimented with bike designs in the past. His unique perspective towards the design world makes him a respected name in the Italian art, fashion, and design circles.

Flying Flea, a new sub-brand of Royal Enfield, brought the one-of-a-kind electric motorcycle that blurs the boundaries between mobility and abstract art to Milan for the world to appreciate. Dubbed Motototem, the bike looks straight out of the Ghost Rider Universe. Perhaps they could have roped in Nicolas Cage for a cameo entry at the unveiling – of course, minus all the blazing flames.

Designer: Flying Flea and Mattia Biagi

Motototem, based on the brand’s first ever motorbike, the FF.C6, is created by a team of over 200 engineers based in India and the UK. The bespoke motorbike retains most of its DNA, while Mattia turns the bike’s skin and muscle into a creative platform. Under the surface lies the same Snapdragon-powered modern connectivity and voice navigation. The magnesium battery case, having fins, is retained to maintain structural integrity, and is painted in black stone element to maintain the visual theme. The artist brings nostalgic elements of the 1940 Flying Flea into play – reviving memories of the brand’s motorbikes, which were air-dropped during WWII to gain tactical advantage on the battlefield. That travertine tank, to be precise, has the telltale inspiration from the years gone by.

The nature-human connection is also present in the final form as the headlights and taillights give way to hand-blown glass forms achieved from high-temperature processes. Bronze handlebars and footpegs with components molded from the artist’s fingerprints alone got me to believe it is some kind of secret Ghostrider bike for an upcoming movie under wraps. The use of natural materials like clay, bronze, stone, and leather flows down to the forged aluminum frame and the magnesium battery case. Fenders get the unique resin-cast leaves, truly making it artistic, and the seat now has a warm walnut block as the saddle. On closer look, even the tires get the art influence with swallows that signify loyalty and homecoming.

Mattia gives the fork assembly the creative treatment with clay-molded inserts that replace the fork guards traditionally found on dirt bikes. The chain guard gets the same treatment.  This sculptural bike will tour the world this year, after its show at the Superdesign Show located at Via Tortona 27 at Milan Design Week commences on 12 April, and we’re looking forward to more clips of the bike in action. Maybe in California it’ll get celebrity attention, or maybe George Miller’s attention for his next Mad Max flick.

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