Bike thieves can't steal it if they don't know it's there ... This remarkable motorcycle looks for all the world like a telecom signal box covered in graffiti – but at the touch of a button it rises up on wheels and rides away.

It's called the Nomoto – as in, "No moto here, buddy, just this piece of public infrastructure." And when it's parked up, there's little to suggest it's anything else, although the eagle-eyed might look at the graffiti tags on it and see the name, as well as "JRUITER"– the signature of designer Joey Ruiter.

New Atlas first featured Ruiter's work some 18 years ago, in the form of a remarkable 215-horsepower watercraft pulled chariot-style by a pair of forward-mounted jet-drive motors, and steered with an aircraft-like control system.

We took another look in 2016, when he released the Snoped, an upright single-track snow bike with boxy black bodywork as stark and featureless as a server rack. Ruiter clearly loves to poke people where it hurts with his designs: "I don't mind if somebody doesn't like my work," he told the Work Hard Play Hard podcast in 2021. "That's totally fine, and I want my work to be very polarizing. I think the polarization makes it fun."

In the case of Nomoto, he reduces the form of a motorcycle to a pair of metal boxes, eliminating the need for a side stand by having the bodywork lower itself down to sit flush with the ground when the bike's parked.

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