I can't be the only person to have connected these two designs, but I haven't seen any other website or bike magazine comment on this yet. What we have here is an Art Deco concept Henderson motorcycle built in 1936 by O. Ray Courtney. It has an inline 4 cylinder engine longitudinally mounted in the frame, which must make the rear cylinders extremely hot with all that bodywork covering it. The more modern motorcycle is the Yamaha Gen-Ryu hybrid concept of 2005 which seems to borrow most of its styling elements from the Henderson. Notice the vertical grill has been turned into a vertical headlight array of LEDs. I love the way they modernized the design while keeping the retro theme. I wonder if James Parker had anything to do with this design as I see his front suspension ( Yamaha GTS ) on the front of this bike.
