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It may not be a guaranteed in for the biker gang of your choice, but at least you don’t have to put gas in it! The BOXX electric bike is the new square way to get around town without negatively impacting the environment, although people may complain that it’s a bit of an eyesore.
It goes up to 35 mph, so you won’t really be hitting the highway on this bad boy, but maybe the light (120 lbs.) and short (36 inches long) body style is what you’re looking for, like when you need to pick it up and run away from that biker gang you tried to join.
Think you're bad ass riding a motorcycle without a helmet? Well, that ain't nothing compared to this: The Skating King of Pakistan who rollerblades behind his motorcycle that he controls using strings.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Autoblog (which has more clips)
According to a rough Babelfish translation from the Russian description, Alexander Ishutin bought a motorcycle and installed a drum set on it so he and his friends could do this. In Soviet Russia, concert drives to you! -via reddit
It may not be exactly the invisible bike, but designer Joey Ruiter came pretty close with his "Moto Undone:"
At jruiter I.D. we want to re-set the definition of a motorbike stripping away historical attributes that make them so great. It’s hard to image a motorcycle without fancy paint, overpowered motors, exposed mechanical genius, and sweet exhaust tones.
Moto undone is pure generic transportation and by motorbike category definition it isn’t very cool.
There motorbike references are small and when someone is riding they are all you see. The bike almost disappears. The rider just floats along the streets silently.
Powered by a 1000w 48v electric hub motor, moto undone has a range of 90 miles or about 3 hours. All gauges and riding information, like speed and gps, is displayed through smart phones by downloadable apps.
Normally riding a motorcycle makes people look pretty cool. However this hog is tricked out to resemble what appears to be a Predator Alien hybrid (the PredAlien). See link for more photos.
Artist Roongrojna Sangwongprisarn made this incredible Alien motorcycle out of spare parts and scrap in a Bangkok garage. And it actually goes!
This all-leather chopper was made in 2000 by Japan’s Red Moon, a company that specializes in leather products. This ¾-scale replica took 20 craftspeople more than two years to complete. Wheels, frame, headlight, spark plug boots, chain, fuel valve, even the tools in the tool bag are all made of leather! You can see this and other motorcycling oddities at the Milwaukee Harley-Davidson Museum exhibit titled “Collection X: Weird Wild Wonders of the Harley-Davidson Museum” until August 21.
Link – Via Book of Joe
Photo: Motorcycle.com
Hollywood stuntman, Eddie Paul, builds cars and motorcycles for movies but his favorite vehicles are the three Boss Hoss bikes in his own garage. When a car magazine wanted a bike with a military look for a show in San Diego Paul rose to the challenge and created the “Secret Weapon” motorcycle above.
The project included fabricating all the body parts from metal, building the rotating replica Gatling guns which are twin 7.62mm electrically-driven rotary-action six-barrel mini-guns (similar to those on Puff the Magic Dragon gunship in ’Nam, or as seen in Schwarzenegger’s film “Predator”), converting the fuel supply to the pair of five-gallon Jerry cans attached to the rear and constructing the bullet-proof Lexan windshield.
Eddie says this motorcycle is a hit with everyone from the military to little old ladies.
Link – via Everyday No Days Off
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In 1937 tiny Sally Halterman didn’t let her stature hold her back. Despite weighing in at only one-third the weight of her Harley Davidson Sally was the first woman to be granted a license to operate a motorcycle in the District of Columbia. She was 27 years old, weighed 88 pounds, and was just 4’11 tall. Upon receiving her permit, Sally was initiated into the D.C. Motorcycle Club, the only woman ever to be so honoured.
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Dark Roasted Blend has an awesome post featuring motorcycles, from early antiques to the modern designs available today to the concept bikes of the future. You’ll see bikes equipped for war, all-terrain cycles, strange mods, and movie motorcycles. The sleek concept motorcycle shown here is called Swordfish. Link
Image: Michael Drabikowski – via Bike EXIF
I can’t even ride a scooter, but I certainly can appreciate this nifty gallery of 15 manly motorcycles for the manly man over at Cool Material. This one above is the Robb Handcrafted Cycles Harley:
There are only really two types of motorcycle custom shops in the world – the ones that customize Harleys and the ones that do it wrong. What do you get when you cross the engine from a 67 Harley, Ducati forks, and carbon fiber? Perfection in motorcycle form. Australian
buildergod Dylan Robb built this bike over an eight month period in his shed with almost no tools. In our opinion, it’s more impressive than building a suit of armor in a cave from a box of scraps – and not just because it’s real.
Someone in Liverpool came up with the brilliant idea of equipping motorcycles with firefighting equipment.
Liverpool is the first city in the UK to roll out two of the £30,000 bikes, which have pumps with a range of 11 metres, in a six-month pilot scheme. With 50 litres of water and chemical foam on board each specially modified BMW bike, they are capable as a pair of putting out two burning cars in two minutes.
The man in charge of the project added: “We have no intention of using them to replace fire engines. “Our two biggest work streams are automated fire alarms and anti-social small fires, which is what they will be used for.”
It appears to be a very clever idea. The bikes can navigate through traffic more quickly than full-size equipment, at lower cost and using less manpower.
Link. Photo: Peter Byrne/PA Wire.
Yanko Design showcases an incredible vision of a Harley Davidson in the year 2020, created by designer Jonathan Russell. The bike’s sleek frame and finish definitely scream “futuristic,” but I have a lot of trouble seeing a heavy, bearded man in leather driving one of these.
Link – via CoolMaterial
When the dorkiest guy in a collection of pictures is Mick Jagger, you know you’re in for a treat. Pictured is Clark Gable. Link -via Everlasting Blort
I would be scared to death *walking* this mountain trail (supposedly in the Italian Alps), much less riding a motorcycle on it. Link [embedded YouTube clip, thought he'd fall off at 3:00 and 5:00]
Previously on Neatorama: Caminito del Rey
Photo: Barry Bland/Bancroft USA
Forget about the “Hog.” If you really want to look cool on the roads, buy this motorcycle custom made with a real alligator. It’s not a crock, and it’s not without merit. The bike will be auctioned off to raise money for a wildlife charity.
YouTube user jairust mounted bottle rockets on his motorcycle. He writes:
Before you comment on safety remember that they are made of cardboard and balsa wood. You can buy them at walmart, they don’t have explosives in them, any sharp tips, no metal, and nothing that can hurt anyone.
I made rocket pods for the sides of my ’06 CBR that shoot estes rockets with the push of a button. Some of the rockets in the video did not fly very well but I have got the problem under control so watch for another video!!
In the links, you can view a video of him firing rockets from his motorcycle at night.
via Gizmodo | YouTube Video | Screen capture by Gizmodo
Italian artist Lyle Rowell rides slowly on a 1,900 pound mechanical animal that breathes fire! It walks on two front legs and rolls on two back wheels. He calls it Lrry.
The contraption is the product of four months of Rowell “crawling around in the scrap and dirt” to gather parts that he liked. He took an engine from an old Volkswagen Bug–like Citroën and stuffed it into two chopped-up and welded-together motorcycle frames. Aside from propane for Lrry’s fire breath, Rowell was able to scrounge up nearly every part, all the way down to the linkages and sprockets.
The beast spits fire from the back end, too. Link (with video) -via Metafilter
(image credit: Elle Dunn)
The Panzerbike is a German-built motorcycle with the engine of a T-55 tank inside. That’s a diesel V12 with 620 HP. The bike is 19 feet long, 9 feet wide, and weighs nearly 5 tons. Actually, it’s more like a tractor than a motorcycle, since the sidecar is built-in and it takes two people to steer. Still, Tilo Niebel and his friends at the Harzer Bike company created quite an impressive piece of machinery.
YouTube Video of the Panzerbike
Link via Ride Fast & Shoot Straight
When police officers in Shandong, China stopped a motorcycle for being overloaded, they found a surprise: the rider has no arms!
Liu, 27, lost both arms at the age of seven after an electric shock. When he was 10, his parents sent him to a local circus to learn skills, and from then on, he trained himself to ride a motorcycle without arms.
Police officer Xhang Jie said: "I spotted from a distance that the motorbike had three adults on but we were all stunned by what we saw when we got closer."
Liu admitted that he had been riding his adapted motorcycle for 10 years without arms – and he didn’t even have a license.
Forget Evel Knievel! He’s got nothing on the world’s greatest daredevil, Hammy the Hamster! (Yes, the same Hammy the Hamster that went organic a while ago). According to Spot Motorcycles:
… no hamsters were harmed in the making of this extraordinary movie. Hammy announced his retirement shortly after completing this jump but, like many other famous daredevils, may find the lure of the spotlight to be too great to sit on the sidelines for long.
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] – via Urlesque
Motorized bicycles have always been one of the the aspirations of "green" transportation, but let’s face it: most of them are clunky.
Well, no more: Industrial designer Adrian Van Anz has created a stylish, retro moto-bike that looks like a cross between a Ducati and a Schwinn. Behold, the Derringer Cycles:
Derringers can be pedaled as a traditional bicycle, propelled via engine power, or pedaled with the assistance of engine power. While under power, the pedals can also remain stationary, allowing you to operate in the style of a traditional motorcycle. Capable of fuel economy ratings that can exceed 150 mpg, Derringers are the first product to take the compromise out of environmentalism …
Link – via diskursdisko
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Barend Massow Hemmes of Massow Concept Cycles along with Polar cycles of Doncaster UK created what is probably the most awesome motorcycle I’ve ever laid eyes on: the Jaguar "leaper" cat logo concept bike, made from stainless steel.
Just how awesome is that? Link – via Modern Urban Living
Ad agency: Lowe Jakarta, Indonesia – via directdaily
Hah! This is pretty neat. Motorcycle riders in Jakarta, Indonesia, often suffer from eye irritation (red eye) caused by pollution on the road, so when Visine wants to advertise its product, a clever ad agency "modded" a red light that has a 60 seconds countdown timer, to show how fast the eye drop works!
Some people out there are fearless. Take this guy for instance; he doesn’t seem to be the least bit distracted by the vehicle that’s passing him and at the same time, being video taped. I wonder what possesses a person to do such a thing.
Video: LiveLeak
Daredevil Robbie Maddison made this incredible 322-foot jump on New Year’s Eve.
This 6,500 pound heavy and 15 feet tall motorcycle, built by Greg Dunham, is the world’s tallest rideable motorcycle according to the Guinness World Records. It took Greg over three years to build it and he spent aorund $300,000 on parts.
Here’s a video clip of the amazing monster cycle:
Link – via GadgetVenue
