[Nobbc] Fw: Magnificent Motorcycles

[Mike Gianandrea]

Motorcycles anyone?

Michael

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From: RACER BUD
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Subject: Fw: Magnificent Motorcycles





thanks to GARY 'FRIEND OF OLD HORSTY' KUNTZ for the following.
Racer Bud


Magnificent Motorcycles


Behold! The Fearsome Knight on an Iron Horse... Or rather, 500 Horses

Earlier this year  we examined some of the cool, the fascinating, the unusual
and the utterly weird designs for motorcycles that have appeared for over the
last century or so. Herebs another look the wild and wonderful world of
motorcycles.



Brough Superior motorcycles were made in Nottingham, England from 1919 until
1940 and were known as bthe Rolls Royce of motorcyclesb. Very expensive at
the time, they were available only to the wealthy. This model dates from
1931.




T. E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, owned several of these
machines and died from his injuries after crashing on one in 1935.... Another
beautiful bike is this Imme (Germany), with a single side suspension:



The Megola motorcycle was produced in Munich in the 1920bs. Some 2000 were
built, but only 10 fully working examples are still in existence, one of which
is in the Guggenheim Museum in New York:





In 1935, the Killinger and Freund motorcycle was an attempt to make an
improved version of the Megola, but the advent of World War Two put an end to
any further development:






Some sources point out that "in 1940, when Indian's skirted fenders appeared,
several questioned the manhood of Spingfield's designers". It seems that
aerodynamic shape of Killinger & Freund bikes influenced the Indian
designers:



This streamlined torpedo is the French-made Majestic, 1929:




Speaking about "Custom War Bikes", here is one that was fashioned after World
War Two style (modern concept by Kogisama):




The previous wild concept was not so wild, after all - take a look at the real
WW2-period 1936 BMW Schneekrad




Another front-wheel tracked motorcycle prototype from 1937 (more info):



Modern all-terrain tracked version is proposed by Hyanide & Baal:




After the war, the Moto Guzzi 500 cc V8 race bike was seen on the worldbs
high-speed racetracks from 1955 to 1957.





Going Hubless

The hubless wheel was invented by Franco Sbarro, who incorporated it into the
Sbarro Osmos car in 1989. He also built at least two motorcycles employing the
hubless technology.





Modern version of the hubless wheel can be seen in the recent concepts for
Harley Davidson



Many of us remember the lightcycles from the 1982 movie Tron. The long awaited
sequel, Tron Legacy, is set to hit theatres in late 2010 and will feature this
splendid looking specimen:




Swordfish concept chopper:




Rats & Kustoms

This custom built motorcycle, called Iceman II, was made by Walz Hardcore
Choppers of Germany for Formula One world champion Kimi Raikonnen:



Rat bikes are usually defined as motorcycles that are decades old, in a poor
state of repair, but still maintained and kept roadworthy by their owners on a
shoestring budget. Survival bikes do resemble rat bikes and the two are often
confused, although survival bikes are usually modified in much the same way
that cars are customized. Here are some great examples of both of these types
of machines.

Imagine seeing this coming up behind you in your rear view mirror (below
left)? On the right is the rounded green beauty, also seen at the Sturgis
Motorcycle Rally:




Not sure what kind of a view youbd get of the road ahead on this one (image
below left)? On the right you can see a really inventive fuel tank -




On the left image below is The Survival Bike from some sort of Zombie
Apocalypse... Whereas the owners of the bike (below right) decided to actually
attach the coffin as a sidecar:




We featured what we had speculated might be the worldbs largest motorcycle
in Magnificent Motorcycles Part One, but the biggest one on the planet may
actually be this one.




This bike is pretty big too and apparently this machine, called the Gunbus, is
perfectly capable of being taken out on the road.




Want to travel in style? Why not try this Harley Davidson and limousine
combination?


Concept Beasts

Finally, herebs a selection of concept motorcycles, which may or may not see
the light of day at some point in the future. Herebs the Akira concept
bike:



FuturA was designed by Mario Malagrino of the Florence Design Academy
(left)... Romanian 3D artist Adrian Baluta created this cool bike called
Darklight (right):




Above image, bottom row: the Suzuki Biplane and the Victory Vision 800 concept
bike produced by Victory, a division of Polaris ATV's.

William Woods designed the Fallout concept motorcycle in 2009 (below left).
The Wrath concept (below right) by Alexander Barnard is dubbed a bfuture
modern retro chopperb for the year 2083:














































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