Italian scooter and moped maker Malaguti is trying to gain toehold in the motorcycle segment and like its wacky scooters which are trendy and powerful, it has suggested an avant garde design for its first ever concept motorcycle. The Malaguti Super Climber pictured here was shown to the motorcycle world at the Bologna Motor Show in December and it obviously is a stylised take on an American flat-tracker motorcycle. Employing a four-stroke mill borrowed from the Yamaha TT600 and mounted into a chassis of Malaguti's own design (as creative as the rest of the design), the Super Climber has a fabricated tubular steel swingarm onto which the twin beefy piggyback type of shock absorbers are mounted.

The Super Climber might not win any performance wars out there even with 44bhp Yamaha power but it is nevertheless an interesting concept which has been made solely to judge whether Malaguti should get into motorcycles. Said a Malaguti spokesman at Bologna: "There is talk in the air about increasing our line-up. Malaguti is a strong brand and we are keen to expand." But with better designed bikes, one hopes!