Diamond Atelier’s latest creation, the Ultron DA#22, glows when an electric charge is passed through its luminescent red paint. This tuned ultra-custom machine has been touted as a hyperbike and whether you buy that or even know what it means, its appearance at the Goodwood Festival of Speed attracted compliments of the highest order.
Diamond Atelier Ultron
At the core of this resplendent beast is KTM’s 1,301cc LC8 V-twin, impressively tuned past 205bhp, up from the standard 180bhp output.
The Munich ‘shop’s 22nd build began just as a shape, followed by engineering. Don’t let that fool you, however; this prototype is not all show. This is a tricked-out, road-legal performance custom finished in the workshop’s inimitable style, with great input from some respected partners.
Marvin Diehl of KRT Framework hand-shaped the aluminium bodywork, spending over a claimed 800 hours on shaping its form. The CNC-machined handlebar switchgear and buttons were inspired by Formula 1 and created by DKB Special Parts.
Truly Custom Paint-Job
The build used 1 litre of a one-of-a-kind electroluminescent paint, developed by Alex Bloch of Stilbruch Lack, which gives it the distinctive glow. And dare I say it? It makes it look like a Tron lightcycle. (I say everything looks like Tron) But surely that must have been in the inspiration this time – right?
Refined Components
There wasn’t any scrimping on other components either: Aconity3D printed the titanium exhaust and upper triple clamp with a diamond set in sterling silver. Wilbers forks, a single-sided swingarm, and cockpit hidden beneath a recessed glass panel adorn this hyper-bespoke build.
Elsewhere, 4JET machined a one-off diamond-pattern tread into the front tyre, with the visual carried into the bodywork. A DKB clutch cover is illuminated behind a glass inspection window.
Diamond Atelier hasn’t put a price on the DA#22; however, the workshop says it marks the beginning of an ultra-limited series.
The output alone won’t frighten a supercharged H2, but nothing wrapped around it can be ordered, specced or repeated. On that basis, it may well call itself a hyperbike. Some will disagree, of course.
