Custom bike?

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.
 
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 .
 
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 " ?? :roll: Untill you come to a corner ?? :shock:

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
 
Carbonfibre said:
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
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The TV choppers like the Tuttles build offer nothing of interest, they are garbage wagons of another sort. A chopper should be relatively lightweight and devoid of the non essential.

Indian Larry died doing a stunt, had he been wearing a helmet he probably would have walked away from the accident.
Most of his bikes were riders, functioning front suspension and brakes, proper frame geometry, light weight, and powerful. About as good as a rigid gets.

He was an interesting guy and lived a full life.

Comparing a chopper to a commando is like comparing a commando to a modern sports bike, obviously not in the same league. Ridden within the confines of the law the chopper may very well be more fun to ride than the commando and certainly more fun than the sportbike.

Feeling fast on a slow bike or slow on a fast bike...
 
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 . 8)
but there welcome to try . :D :| :mrgreen:
 
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.
 
We call this progress . :D :P :cry: :roll: ' Bling ' ?

appearance is for people ( machines ) of no substance ?

fully agree with the ' if its not doing anything , you dont need it ' philosopy .

Parts for appearance are more the ' show bike ' bit . like the classic motorcycle nerd .
Ohh , BSA Gold Star , Ohh , blah blah , oh blah oh blah . 190 blah oh mm blah oh front balh brake .

Not that a 5 or 6 speed Gold Star wouldnt be a usefull scooter , B50MX is aledgedly UNIT Version of Same Mechanics .
dunno if this is right or not .
 
Indian Larry biult a bike out of welded chain http://www.panoramio.com/photo/5032593. It did not kill him, showing off without a helmet did.

"Indian Larry was performing a motorcycle stunt at the "Liquid Steel Classic" and "Custom Bike Series" in Concord, North Carolina on August 28, 2004. In the stunt, he was standing on the moving motorcycle. As the stunt progressed the bike began to wobble out of control and he was thrown from the motorcycle, sustaining serious head injuries. He was then taken to the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he died on August 30, 2004 from the head injuries sustained in the mishap. Larry was not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident."
 
Indian larry wasn't killed by a failed "chain-frame" bike, but someone else was, more recently.
 
Sorry I thought he was trying to do a stunt on that awful chain frame bike, and it went out of control due to a couple of the welds breaking?
 
Apparently he had already done it twice, and went back to do it the third time because the crowd was loving it. Lesson not to push your luck
 

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