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I think that kid was just an idiot. He was doing about 100 MPH on a main road in a Melbourne suburb in a car. And that was just after he was in a newspaper and on radio selling his bullshit about hot-rods.
Some guys fantasise a lot about speed. When I was a kid, we used to do those sorts of speeds on motorcycles and a lot of my friends died. But with that hot-rod, it was all the prior publicity which made it so bad. From memory, one day he was promoting a hot-tod show, and the nect day he and his mate died, in one which flew to pieces.
My mate up at Glenrowan still works on hot-rods, and often comes up against the need for engineers' certificates.
If you want to build a different motorcycle for road use, it is better to buy a registered donor bike and alter it, than build one from scratch and take it to get registered.
How many cops can look at a motorcycle and recognise that the frame is not standard production ? It would need to look very daggy to be detected.

<blockquote data-quote="acotrel" data-source="post: 616178" data-attributes="member: 4295">I think that kid was just an idiot.&nbsp; He was doing about 100 MPH on a main road in a Melbourne suburb in a car.&nbsp; And that was just after he was in a newspaper and on radio selling his bullshit about hot-rods.Some guys fantasise a lot about speed.&nbsp; When I was a kid, we used to do those sorts of speeds on motorcycles and a lot of my friends died.&nbsp; But with that hot-rod, it was all the prior publicity which made it so bad. From memory, one day he was promoting a hot-tod show, and the nect day he and his mate died, in one which flew to pieces.My mate up at Glenrowan still works on hot-rods, and often comes up against the need for engineers&#039; certificates.If you want to build a different motorcycle for road use, it is better to buy a registered donor bike and alter it, than build one from scratch and take it to get registered.How many cops can look at a motorcycle and recognise that the frame is not standard production ? It would need to look very daggy to be detected.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="acotrel, post: 616178, member: 4295"] I think that kid was just an idiot. He was doing about 100 MPH on a main road in a Melbourne suburb in a car. And that was just after he was in a newspaper and on radio selling his bullshit about hot-rods. Some guys fantasise a lot about speed. When I was a kid, we used to do those sorts of speeds on motorcycles and a lot of my friends died. But with that hot-rod, it was all the prior publicity which made it so bad. From memory, one day he was promoting a hot-tod show, and the nect day he and his mate died, in one which flew to pieces. My mate up at Glenrowan still works on hot-rods, and often comes up against the need for engineers' certificates. If you want to build a different motorcycle for road use, it is better to buy a registered donor bike and alter it, than build one from scratch and take it to get registered. How many cops can look at a motorcycle and recognise that the frame is not standard production ? It would need to look very daggy to be detected. [/QUOTE]