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Posted by hipstomp / Rain Noe | 16 May 2011
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The type of person who buys a Buell motorcycle is "known as the hands on engineer type," explains designer Michael Kritzer, and it's for them that Kritzer designed the Buell Cratetable. The box that the motorcycle arrives in is pre-cut to be assembled into a useable workbench.
Kritzer designed the Cratetable for one of his earlier jobs, while working at Crispin Porter + Bogusky. The Miami-based designer now runs design firm Simple Artifact and product creation company Habitco.
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This is amazing!!! Very good design in my opinion! Every motorcycle enthusiast needs a work bench, and why let all of that perfectly good wood go to waste.
looks like the table has a lot less wood than the crate? Do you build 2 tables?
The motorcycle crates I've seen in the past are made from the crappiest wood known to man. They are like really big tissue boxes, made from galvanized banding and 1/4 plywood...A crate as nice as Kritzer's would demand that you keep it, just because it's so nice!
Maybe now that the H-D version of Buell is no more, and Eric Buell is apparently moving into the world of $50k exotic bikes, he can afford to include a crate this nice!
I really like the crate and I would be glad to get a solid workbench next time I buy a motorcycle, but in my province the dealer receive the bikes partly unassembled, assemble the rest and delivers the bike or the cliend go fetch it at the dealership... I've never seen anyone receive a bike directly from a manufacturer, much less receive a bike in a crate...
BTW I hope Buell will get back to selling bikes to the public and I hope to see some of them in a competitive market like the mid-weight naked and sport-touring... They put some very nice ideas into their bikes.