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Re: Custom Motorcycle Museum

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Yeah. If you guys think unrideable custom's are cool, how about this?
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Its just as valid an artistic expression as half the crap Pipeburn advocates.....
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Re: Custom Motorcycle Museum

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your right...…...UNRIDBLE!!!!!!!
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Re: Custom Motorcycle Museum

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CYBORG wrote:your right...…...UNRIDBLE!!!!!!!
nice pair of "tanks" though. :mrgreen:
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Well......if you are a " tank" man, they are out standing
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Re: Custom Motorcycle Museum

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Sidecar Bob wrote:Yeah. If you guys think unrideable custom's are cool, how about this?
Jussst to be clear... The examples shown (to include the Hazan's) are ride-able. It's kind of a rule, and usually in writing. Sculptures are something different.

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..And what the heck is up with this thing?!?!
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Really? Tell me how this goes around corners at more than walking speed
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Some of the others might be technically rideable but certainly aren't legal for use on the road, which is just as bad as unrideable.
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That BMW doesn't look comfortable at all, but I guess it can kinda be ridden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM2b6aYLPfQ
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Maybe its a drag bike.....no corners
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Read the comments.....
Mr. Honda ('83 GL1100/Dnepr) summer How a motorcycle evolves thread
The Famous Eccles ('84 CX650EI/VeloUral) winter Never Ending Build (CX500forum)
Click: Colour schematics for all GL1000 & GL1100 and GL1200 standard models plus instructions on how to download the full size version
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Sidecar Bob wrote:Read the comments.....

that was a bad joke. I think it is eye candy at best lolol lolol
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I meant the comments on that YouTube video's page. It seems not many are impressed by it.
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Re: Custom Motorcycle Museum

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Yeahhhhh... I think I'm gona have to side with the judges at Quail Valley on this one.
It is quite a design achievement. IMHO

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I am curious as to what "achievements" you see.
To me, it looks like an overly complicated, very user unfriendly designed machine.
(did you know that you have to shift it with your knee?)

It's almost as if Rube Goldberg got into the motorcycle business.
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Re: Custom Motorcycle Museum

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dontwantapickle wrote:I am curious as to what "achievements" you see.
To me, it looks like an overly complicated, very user unfriendly designed machine.
(did you know that you have to shift it with your knee?)
It's almost as if Rube Goldberg got into the motorcycle business.
Ha! Clever. (I could explain that this is a Bonneville bike, but that point was long lost.)
Tell me again what page in the J.C. Whitney catalog is that front end mechanism....?
There was a time when we (motorcycle riders/builders/manufactures) couldn't decide on a simple throttle system.
Ideas are where every thing we ride comes from.

So it seems difference of opinion is starting to take a turn and I'll except the blame. I'm out.

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