Air Jordan Designer Helped Create a Limited Zero Motorcycle

You may well have worn Air Jordans designed by Tinker Hatfield, but have you ever saddled up in an electric motorcycle co-created by the Nike sneaker legend? Of course not. And you probably never will, as Nike’s famously influential VP of Design teamed up with See See Motorcycles cofounder Thor Drake to “Portlandize” exactly one-of-one Zero SR/F for the city’s One Moto Show. As Ride Apart reports, Hatfield and Drake added a riveted aluminum “fuel tank” inspired by WWII bombers without detracting from the SR/F’s silhouette. Behind the tank is the flashiest customization—a Tiger-embossed seat decorated in the style of classic Japanese ink by local tattoo artist Drat Diestler.

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