Weird rare one-off bikes

[firstbuell]

Espanol, she rules!

the opening pair o'Ossas - super 2-smoke singles

the closing pair o'Ducati 350s - overwrought, heavy & slow........

 

[Stormdragon]

Performance, was not one of the criteria of this thread. Weird and unusual was.

 

[Zerox]

i remember when britalia motors in santa cruz had one of these in their showroom. insane amounts of engineering and technology went into those bikes.

The Britten is so unreal you have to read his story twice just to believe someone could do that much amazing engineering in his garage!

 

[firstbuell]

Performance, was not one of the criteria of this thread. Weird and unusual was.

yeah, both those 350cc Ducatis qualify as "weird", for different reasons:

[1] the earlier Ducati 250/350/450 singles [both sprung & desmo] were already long in the tooth when discs & mags arrived

however, the MotoTrans factory kept their Ducati lunger line alive with mega-bling, peaking with the very late Vento 350 shown above -
that's a LOT of hardware hung on an underpowered bike.....


[2] the 350cc size itself was a result of unexpected Italian [& Spanish?] taxes levied on 'real' motorcycles - the limit was reduced from the previous 500cc threshold

this edict totally screwed the 500cc marketing plans for then-new Ducati & Laverda parallel- & Guzzi V-twins, substantially weakening all 3 companies - the mandated smaller category carried forward for many years, as evidenced by subsequent Pantah & other Ducati 350 L-twins, etc.

 

[ST Guy]

This is still one of my very favorites:

Some links:

http://thekneeslider.com/5000cc-v-twin-motorcycle-engine-for-sale/

http://www.bikemenu.com/photos/weird/Merlin.htm

http://home.st.net.au/~fettesi/merlin.htm

 

[Abyss]

Bosozoku shit:

Whatever the hell this is:

Whatever the hell this is part deux:

 

[louemc]

It's nice that mentally ill people can keep themselves occupied, now that the loony bins have been closed

 

[firstbuell]

yes, that "Bosozoku shit" looks strange - at 1st glance, anyway

I wonder that the style mebbe started when a Nipponese coffee racer wanted to mix a '70s GP fairing with normal h'bars & pegs

the style just took off from that beginning & grew crazier over time.....

what's the front-end vertical rod on 2 of them all about?

 

[ST Guy]

Not a motorcycle, but definately one-off:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MLkbHkxk-g

 

[2strokeYardSale]

Egli Vincent ... /thread

 

[Abyss]

yes, that "Bosozoku shit" looks strange - at 1st glance, anyway

I wonder that the style mebbe started when a Nipponese coffee racer wanted to mix a '70s GP fairing with normal h'bars & pegs

the style just took off from that beginning & grew crazier over time.....

what's the front-end vertical rod on 2 of them all about?

If you look at the wikipedia page for Bosozoku it pretty much says exactly that: cafe racers + choppers = Bosozoku. No idea what the rod is for. Probably they felt there was too much negative space in front of the bike, lol.

If you think the bikes are crazy, you have no idea how ridiculous it can get with the cars...

 

[Rimmy]

Ossa:

This wasn't a concept, iit was full blown released. This was the first streebike I ever rode. belonged to one of my best friends dads. I spent years nagging "when ya gonna let me ride it? (started when I was 14) at 19 he threw me the key and said "bring it back with gas" when he eventually sold it, I begged him to sell it to me (sentimental reasons) he wouldn't do it.

my contribution, the Honda VTX Techno Cruiser

 

[DReg350]

Best thread right now! Great bikes guys. Thanks for posting!!

 

[Stormdragon]

This wasn't a concept, iit was full blown released.

Correct. My first post was concept bikes. The second and third are 'real' bikes of one kind or another. You'll also note that I listed the K1 under BMW, not Ossa.




Edit: The one you can call me on i suspect, is the SOHC 750 I listed as a Bimota. I keep looking at it, and think it might be an Egli instead.

 

[firstbuell]

that gorgeous Vincent in post #50 was hammered out locally by Sonoma County's Paul Zell

#50's 1st foto, IIRC, is the Tualis sans its chambers & lower fairing - note the Buell tuber-like shok mounting

 

[Crom]

The scott two speed won the isle of man tt in 1912 and 1913. First 2 stroke to do so.

 

[Crom]

Here's one of my favorites. AJS 500 V4, A supercharged 500cc V4 with a top speed of 135mph and its from 1939. One hell of a machine way before Honda's Force V4

 

[Zerox]

The cool thing about the rare one-off bikes is I never heard of most of them, so thanks for posting.

 

[Clem Kevin]

i know its not street legal...

but a modernized street legal version would be pretty sweet

My absolute favorite.

 

[Stormdragon]

A couple for the Britten fans, instead of posting the same pics of Brittens over and over, and over..

More Ducs:

Enough Ducs! On to......


Snarly Davidson!

That didn't last long, did it?

Honda:

I really like this one. I think it came from BARF many years ago.