The TV custom bike shows seem to have resulted in machines created purely and simply for camera, which are no longer usable as road going motorcycles: http://www.chain-reaktion.com/chain-of-mystery.jpg

They are purely artwork, aren't they..

You could have at least picked one with a Norton theme to show here ?
That one with the red commando engine and the clear plastic cycleparts is quite spectacular.

I was just reading about a guy getting killed while testing a chain-link framed bike. i believe it was one of the "reality show" bikes...

Just seemed astonishing that anyone would want to try to make a motorcycle frame out of what seems to be anchor chain.................seems that proper standards of engineering are forgotten about when it comes to these silly TV shows! Personally I would say that bike would be impossible to ride, as frame flex would mean you couldnt control it.

What is scary is that someone devoted a large amount of time welding up each individual chain link pair ? !!

Maybe folks should confine themselves to just a paintjob ?
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Radical enough ? !!

Yes an awful lot of welding there, but wonder how they intended to keep everything straight enough to make a viable bike frame?

The tuttles make an engineer worry quite what the general std of intelligance is there .
Seems a lot of brains on the planet are addled by television. A Bit of a worry .

Then theres turkeys bogging multi buck hot rods . OH Dear .

The TV programs based around building choppers certainly dont seem to be promoting skilled engineering!

These bikes ride fine, the engines are souped up pretty good, and they are highly sought after by chopper guys.

I once worked with a "Harley" guy who took his bike and changed everything except the frame. $50K of Cusrtom paint, supercharger bolt on chrome. Thay bike was a useless abomination. He then did another brilliant move and got a boss hoss. So in my opinion the "Harley" guys have no sense, only interested in style and show trophies.

I dont think anyone would want to ride one of the awful lashed up chopper things very far...............the person who built the chain link framed Harley found that out the hard way, as he got killed when he tried to ride it!

" the bikes ride fine " ?? Untill you come to a corner ??

N.Z. has a lot of twisty roads . Some states may be flat and straight
and have intersections.

I would like a ejector seat and parachute if I tried one on a race track ( circuit race ).

Penny Farthings worked well too . . .but Rover invented the safety Bicycle .
A bit like saftey matches . otherwise you could get burned

One of those old 80s twofifty yams with , the TT or whatever , with the back down to get the top tube in ' straight leg ' orientation , and spring spacers in the front tubes , wouldnt need a lot other than a nice teardrop tank , saddle, zorst
and nice sticky tyres to make a reasonable sort of mountain machine .

Yes , not all choppers are dogs .

Terms Handling and roadholding are of course not nessesarily the same thing .
But something that wont spit you off if youve gotta throw the pick out as a logging trucks pulled in front or etc
to me is prefferable to a bike that makes traffic into mobile chicanes that have to be trickled around due to
secondary considerations to control inputs . Where if they ( the traffic ) alters course , youre sunk. or glued
to the sceneary .

Cant beat the looks of a stripped down straight leg framed knucklehead for a street bike , in my books .
but there welcome to try .

Is it true that the anchor chain frame chopper frame breaking caused the death of its rider? Seems to me that the original idea of a chopper, which was to strip all the junk off a Harley, making it lighter and much better to ride was good, but the present idea of a chopper which is made using very costly, heavy, and poorly made parts, seems to be the exact opposite of what was intended back in the day.