Throughout history, motorcycles have been regarded as carefully craftedworks of art that are specifically designed with safety, comfort, and stylein mind. Each rider has their own preference and, when it’s just them andtheir bike, you need to ensure that your products match their respective expectations. Though doing so may pose a challenge to most, Transylvania Engineering Services leverages an internationally acclaimed motorcycle design and development consultancy process to elevate the quality output of such an individualised industry. Below, we take a closer look at what this award-winning engineering consultancy does differently, and how its guidance is paving the way for a new age of motorcycle production.
Founded in 2015 with the vision of becoming both the East Midlands’ and Transylvania’s leading motorcycle engineering consultancy, Transylvania Engineering Services is a dedicated specialist whose impact can currently be felt across the UK and Romania alike. Primarily focused on the design of complete motorcycle chassis for large OEM motorcycle manufacturers, Transylvania Engineering Services has spent close to a decade bringing quality products to the market. Partnered with its production equipment design capabilities, this award-winning entity has quickly become a favourite among the industry, with its influence consistently encouraging collectives to think bigger than ever before.
Operating out of offices positioned in the East Midlands and Transylvania, Transylvania Engineering Services connects with manufacturers who are looking to breathe new life into their products. Beginning with the consultation and conceptualisation stages, the company offers up its expertise to fully explore the initial data provided – be it a comprehensive specification sheet for a distinct motorcycle chassis, or a short-term project plan to create pneumatic arms, testing rigs, bespoke machinery, jigs, and fixtures. No matter the breadth of detail included, Transylvania Engineering Services is committed to generating ideas in CAD schemes that are robustly supported by careful calculations and benchmarking.
Transylvania Engineering Services has gone above and beyond to devise strategies and conceptualisation approaches that honour the importance of a solid plan, and look to build upon it to cultivate something truly special. In this vein, Transylvania Engineering Services takes great joy in its work – it finds every aspect as thrilling as the next, with each turn presenting a new opportunity for a showcase of fluidity, organisational skills, and passion. Combined, these factors allow this award winning consultancy to deliver concepts that are thoughtfully crafted to ensure minimal changes are made during production.
Director Radu Bojan tells us, “We have successfully delivered many types of projects in the motorcycle industry: current support, detailing and release for manufacture, simulation and optimisation, “mule” bikes for testing, styling bucks, model year updates, large areas of completely new chassis. The flagship project we are most proud of is the complete Conceptual Phase of Triumph Bonneville Bobber, where using the existing family engine the design spanned for almost a year. This has resulted in a unique swingarm and suspension system on the market, together with a clever centre package of split airbox and harness routed through the frame spine and twin exhausts. The single seat layout with rear mudguard mounted directly to the swingarm exposes the suspension linkage and makes the bike extremely interesting.
Furthermore, we also have co-authors in patents for Vitesco Technologies on ECU for Hybrid Electric Vehicles and innovations for Rolls Royce Aerospace.”
To achieve such excellent outcomes, Transylvania Engineering Services liaisons with a selection of trusted styling studios. Through this process, it is able to determine packaging constraints, functionality, and cosmetic outside form, all to ensure that any components and sub-systems produced are able to operate at the highest degree available. Though these projects’ length can span anywhere from months to years, the increased quality they secure promises to far surpass the competition. Helping to formulate the best concept for a client is where Transylvania Engineering Services truly excels, and it carries this mindset with it throughout each and every project – be it pertaining to motorcycle design, or production equipment development.
However, technical prowess and a flair for effective planning and conceptualisation are not the only elements that have contributed toward Transylvania Engineering Services’ success. Alongside its dedication to quality, the collective remains avid in upholding a level of integrity that simply cannot be beaten. Shared by both its customers and its internal team, this sense of integrity encourages a certain comfort through transparency, allowing people to openly voice concerns, opinions, and thoughts without being judged for them. Transylvania Engineering Services’ commitment to upholding ethical standards and positive communication has created a foundation for long-term friendships, ultimately elevating it in the eyes of the wider market.
This mentality is further reflected through how Transylvania Engineering Services views its dedicated team of experts. As a collective, it unanimously agrees that the only way to make a company great is to invest in great people, and it applies this logic to how it treats its staff. In essence, Transylvania Engineering Services is passionate about ongoing employee development, with many high potential graduates often benefitting from its guidance and evolving into confident engineers. Exemplary in its approach – one that sees it adapting to the varying needs of each individual to ensure a unique growth experience – Transylvania Engineering Services has asserted itself as more than just an award-winning motorcycle design and development consultancy.
Following the motorcycle industry’s emergence from the pandemic, there have been more inspired and inventive ideas popping up than ever before. Though exciting, there are few who are willing to adjust themselves to create concepts for such products, leaving many having to discard plans that deserve to be given a chance. Transylvania Engineering Services exists to present the opportunity to ambitious clients – those who are seeking to do something different, and need a little bit of guidance to make it happen. Equipped with over 20 years of experience, Transylvania Engineering Services is the definitive choice for anyone looking for unwavering support, and it is this attribute that has consistently enticed companies across Europe.
The Midlands Enterprise Awards was a programme initially founded to bring attention to Midlands-based collectives that were set on going above and beyond to imagine a new future for their respective industries. To this day, SME News finds itself overwhelmingly honoured to be able to present these very companies with the platform they deserve, and no entity within the motorcycle design trade has earned it more than Transylvania Engineering Services. Throughout its tenure, this exceptional consultancy has transcended what it means to be a design consultant, and has become a reliable partner for those wanting to bring their products to life in outstanding and imaginative ways.
It is for this very reason that SME News is delighted to feature Transylvania Engineering Services in the Midlands Enterprise Awards 2024. Equipped with determination, talent, and an eye for what the motorcycle industry needs as we step into a new age of automotive production, the collective has certainly earned itself a position among the greats. We hope that adding the title of Best International Motorcycle Design & Development Consultant 2024 to its broad list of accomplishments will only help to empower Transylvania Engineering Services further, as it continues its pursuit of ongoing development.
For business inquiries, please contact Radu Bojan, Director of Transylvania Engineering Services Ltd, via the website www.transylvania-engineering.com
