Dangerous Bike

[railroad bob]

Here is the link...

http://www.dragzine.com/news/ebay-find- ... otorcycle/

And the comments in my buddies email...

You may have seen V8 motorcycles before, but this is way over the top. The engine is a 1971 Can-Am ZL-1 427-inch aluminum block big block Chevy with a 10-71 blower that force feeds this beast. It features a mechanical fuel injection system with a bird catcher and runs on gasoline...

and 2 pix... I wonder if anyone is nuts enough to buy this? I can see a builder riding it enough to prove it works, and to try attracting a buyer, but cant see any other attraction.

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[yona]

Had this and the story in my old files....Looking at that seat, gives the meaning, " chestnuts ....roasting ". a whole new meaning !!!!!!!

[Maz]

gosh

Even I'm not crazy enough to build something like that

Maz xx

[railroad bob]

Had this and the story in my old files....Looking at that seat, gives the meaning, " chestnuts ....roasting ". a whole new meaning !!!!!!!

I thought the same thing when I saw the headers and seat so close together. Plus the chain on the right side, just a little cloth pulled in would suck a leg right into that shit.

This would be more appropriate for some survivalist after the big one, when everything has to be cobbled together by desperate people with bits found here and there, kinda Mad Max to the tenth degree...

[Maxthegardener]

[triker_chewie]

426in hemi drag bike. much better executed

[mvalenti11]

Just because you can, doesnt mean you should.....

[Jeff L]

I was more interested with the bike in the background

[gearhead1951]

1978 I saw another hemi(396) in the same set up ridden by one crazy Quebec canuck screamin, thru Chattanooga on his way to Daytona ! I got to talk with him a bit at the KOA campgrounds in Valdosta GA ( which is how I know where he wuz from , the details of his bike and that he wuz as crazy as a sack of turpintined tomcats)

[railroad bob]

1978 I saw another hemi(396) in the same set up ridden by one crazy Quebec canuck screamin, thru Chattanooga on his way to Daytona ! I got to talk with him a bit at the KOA campgrounds in Valdosta GA ( which is how I know where he wuz from , the details of his bike and that he wuz as crazy as a sack of turpintined tomcats)

Yeah, every once in awhile a builder does something outrageous, thinking they are breaking new ground, like this one, and turns out it's been done before, they just didn't know about it.

Stopped at a shop in Phoenix that was just getting off the ground, had a nice big fab shop with several welders going at it, the VP let me look around a little. He said they were planning a custom to showcase their abilities, and were planning a chopper with tandem rear wheels cause no one had ever done one. His face fell a little when I told him I saw one in an old Super Cycle mag from the 70s.