homemade motorcycle
I have a homemade bike me and my brother built many years ago. Runs and drives but the back tire kind of rides sideways. The seat blew out a few years ago and I made do with a sofa cushion, duct tape and a couple of 2x 4’s ( the ultimate fix! ). It runs like a champ but does smoke alot especially if you are hard on the gas. Uses about a quart of oil for each gas fillup. I usually just put the oil directly in the gas as it is going to burn it anyway and that way it is easy. Can’t drive over 12 miles or so at a time as the motor gets red hot and starts loosing power so probably a good bike for someone who drives locally. Does backfire and squeel pretty loud occasionally so I usually wear earplugs of some kind. DOES NOT pass emmissions so would need to be registered in a county without emmisions check. Great first bike otherwise!
It’s the new Death Wish 1200, just in time for the 2010 model year. Illegal here in the U.S. (we’re kind of safety-crazed), but popular in Kyrgyzstan, where the “Mad Max” movies are considered reality programming. Comes with a replica of the outfit worn by Mel Gibson in “Beyond Thunderdome.” Tina Turner’s outfit is available as an option.
I’m pretty sure you need health insurance before getting motorcycle insurance.
Life insurance should be mandatory.
Nah… Only in Massachusetts. And even then, you can get away with it if you pay the penalty fee.
This must be a new definition for the word “great.”
This probably belongs on thereifixedit.com
That’s an epic jury rig if I’ve ever seen one.
As an engineer I am delighted to see such a device.
A quart? That’s two pints, right? I’d say the rings might have long since departed.
As for the front wheel from a road car and no front brake… deliscious.
And it runs sideways? WTF, so you need to steer into the oversteer to go straight? Should make tipping over in cornering a lot of fun.
Journey length restricted to 12 miles due to over heating… nice… oil starvation or just no cooling system, ah no, I can see the radiator, so it might be plumbed in right.
But the best bit has to be, “Great first bike” – first and last
The sideways wheel is good for parking.
Great first bike – right! Buy it for your pampered kid. Teach him the meaning of pain, grief and loss. Or just throw him out a window.
WTF? Looks like it has a truck tire for the front tire. Actually, the whole thing reminds me of something they’d build on that TV show Junkyard Wars, where two competing teams would be challenged to build a machine from anything they found in the junkyard, then they’d compete the machines head-to-head the next day. I miss that show.
Me too. We used to have a UK version called Scrapheap Challenge. I think it was the inspiration for JYW, although not claiming any bragging rights. Surely the best bit was when one or both of the machines failed catastrophically
KABLAMO!
I think it was the same show, or JYW came from Scrapheap Challenge. On occasion the hosts of JYW would say something about “a new scapheap challenge” for the contestants. So maybe they recycled some of the shows for the American version. But anyway I always thought the show was neat by the way they could build a working machine out of scrap. And they usually did end up looking like the “motorcycle” pictured above.
Building your own motorbike = cool.
Building it as a death trap = not so much.
I bet they’d have an easier time selling it to the director of some post-apocolyptic (apocalyptic? I’m too lazy to google) movie.
that being said, I’ll give you $5, you deliver.
Mad Max 4, The Deathcycle. Max finally meets his demise from riding the motorcycle that he stole from some leather-clad, mohawk wearing neanderthal.
It is kind of cool looking in a steampunk way. Should only be ridden in top hat and elaborate retro goggles, with absinthe, go for broke.
It sure it has to be licensed.
As a deadly weapon!
vrrrrom, vroom, Kablam! i dont think so.
Instead of pouring the oil into the gas tank, wouldn’t it be easier to just pour the oil directly over yourself and then light a match? Because if you ride this thing, you know you’re going to be set ablaze.
Maybe if Cash for Clunkers comes back…
I knew this had to be in Albuquerque. I just knew it. This makes my head hurt.
Shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque?
WIN!
If this is an example of American built, I can see why Japan has cornered the market on motorcycles. I just hope these brothers didn’t get a job at Harley Davidson.
West Coast “Choppers” takes on a new meaning.
Also, Bella would like to buy it.
This reminds me of the gadget that was rolled onto the stage at a James Taylor concert in Nashville a couple of yrs ago. JT told the audience he was going to use a drum machine for his next number, and the disappintment & chagrin in the audience was almost palpable. Then they wheeled out this monster contraption that was, in fact, a drum machine – a robotic device programmed to hit or beat a variety of real drums with a variety of real mallets or drumsticks. Got a big, relieved laugh – JT is no sellout – he’s authentic, genuine, a pooka.
What a great bike! Not that it’s good for much but just the idea that these brothers thought they could build a motorcycle from scratch and then did it makes me smile.
Whoever rides this and something happens, can’t we just chalk that up as a win for society.
More like great “last” bike. ahhaha..aha..ha…Cuz of, cuz of all the dying that you would do…….on the bike…..cuz its a really crappy bike………..and it sux………….. umm……umm …………………….poop! heheheheheheheheheh.
Anyone ever seen Fairly Odd Parents? Just looking at the picture immediately made me think this is something Timmy Turner’s dad would build. Reading the description just cracked me up and furthered my earlier thoughts.
umm yes ill just have you sign these papers and its all your’s.”but this says release form,not sales agreement.” Thats beside the point