Another "build your own motorcycle" project

[Michael Moore]

http://www.leonhardtweb.de/english/gunbus/pictures/gunbus.html

They are making their own cases, crankshaft and chassis and using the cylinders and heads from some big radial aero engine for a 6+ liter v-twin.

cheers,
Michael

 

[dsergison]

that bike pic was in my last AMA mag. "kind sets the bar pretty high" was part of the caption.

I agree.

 

[Michael Moore]

That's the small aero radial out of Australia, so while an interesting project and very nicely done it isn't quite the same (to me) as a "build most/all of a motor" project. There's another one of those small radials in a bike that has the crankshaft mounted transversely.

cheers,
Michael

 

[jim rozen]

Whack the throttle on that and the motor
stays still, the bike does a ground loop!

Jim

 

[daryl bane]

I especially like the ample ground clearance. I've seen this bike up close and personal and for what it is , is very nicely done. I think it is a Jesse James piece.

 

[D. Rey]

Yep that is a modified dominator frame from WCC. I wonder if Mr. James built it.

 

[AllenKey]

Don't you Americans care about, yes I must admit futile things, as cornering, braking and rideability in general? Or is it just:"Let's make another mantlepiece"? I see on the picture a complete missing front brake system, rear will also be skipped as a totally unnessary weight adder. I can't understand all this cost (look only at the CNC'd front wheel) and labour invested in an essentially transporting motorbike, which only can be admired if it's transported to the admiring place. The bike shown has a potential of maybe 200mph, yet it is already dangerous standing still.

 

[D. Rey]

Look man it's just cool If you don't get it, that's OK.

Kinda like Pam Anderson. Too much of anything can be nice to glance at from time to time, regardless of if it works well or not.

[ 08-18-2006, 08:05 PM: Message edited by: Nervis1 ]

 

[AllenKey]

I understood Pam Anderson was a sort of functioning. Though her challenge with gravity will end up with hernia.

 

[dkmc]

Wholly F**K thats cool!
WOW....

 

[precisionworks]

Don't you Americans care about...cornering, braking and rideability in general?

Allen,

Americans invented the expression Bar to bar is plenty far! Bikes of this type & style are known, for that reason, as bar hoppers.

Nothing, absolutely nothing, is cooler than a chopper. Practical - no. Cool - waaaay cool.
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Barry Milton

 

[JRouche]

Don't you Americans care about.........

That's WHAT makes us Americans, over the top. Gotta love them Americans....JRouche

 

[pistonskirt]

Interesting Michael

I particulary like the motorcycle section in their offerings

"Production of lathed, millcut and cast parts"

I have a particular affinity for lathing as opposed to turning, I'm somehow sure that in these modern times lathed parts would command much higher rewards than turned parts.

regards

Brian

 

[Michael Moore]

AllenKey, the Gunbus in the OP is from Germany, and has a 2.4M wheelbase and expected dry weight of 395KG. It does however have brakes.

cheers,
Michael

 

[AllenKey]

As opposed to my 1.24m wheelbase, 57kg 80 cc championshipbike (with brakes).

Cheers

 

[precisionworks]

80 cc championshipbike

Does it look like this?

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Barry Milton

 

[Longhair]

I blame it on the Discovery Channel for making that show American Chopper showing that anybody with a motorcycle catalog, dead blow hammer and welder can make a motorcycle.

At least I can ride mine instead of having it be trailered everyplace, pushed to the place it sits until it has to be pushed back onto the trailer.

 

[dsergison]

well this is my American Motorcycle.

and my wifes

you can see we do have our priorities straight

I really dontcare for most choppers,
but that rotary is really cool.

 

[dsergison]

oh here. I can make this thread more machining related.

http://sergisonmachine.net/images/dash4.jpg

http://sergisonmachine.net/images/dash15.jpg

http://sergisonmachine.net/images/finished2.jpg

 

[Michael Moore]

Nice Italian frame on that Buell.

But then, my Laverda F750 racer had an American frame:

cheers,
Michael