10/9/15 3:54 PM

Here is a great way to use your spare motorcycle parts in a 4 wheeler!

https://youtu.be/UsbfzmPCYX4

10/9/15 3:58 PM

I dig that big time!

As too the canyon carving:

10/9/15 4:12 PM

After watching the VID, I wonder if Leno made him an offer he couldn't refuse...


I'd like to really see the drive line logistics.

10/9/15 5:09 PM

Watching the video, I couldn't help but imagine a big, powerful Ducati engine in one of these minicars. From my house I often hear the big Duc's blasting our back roads, and what music they make!

I spent some time talking bikes with Jay back in '91 or '92, outside at The Rock Store. He had a Vincent Black Knight with a flip-up one-piece body that he seemed proud of, and I was there (newly back in SoCal) with my '72 Kaw H2.

I also was wondering how the bike engine's countershaft was linked to the two-piece BMW driveshaft that the owner mentioned. From the disposition of the engine, I guess no chain is involved, just a matter of getting the motor mounts to keep the attachment from being overloaded.

10/10/15 8:11 AM

It's not all that new an idea, though. I think the English have been doing similar things forever. Didn't the original Morgan have an aircooled twin? I remember when I was a kid, a person in the vicinity had a Berkeley, which was a little English sports car with a fiberglass body and a two stroke motorcycle engine. It sounded like a chain saw and looked as if it would fly apart at any moment, and it did not actually go very fast, but burned up the village streets and it looked fast.

10/10/15 8:49 AM

air-cooled V hung out for the world to see. spoked wheels. lots and lots of moto DNA. not much car there, really.

i like this guy's rat-rod honda. well done and looks like loads of fun!

10/10/15 8:55 AM

...a leaning 3-wheeler is the way to go. you still get the moto riding experience and use some of the moto skills. driving a car, even a lightweight rat-rod, is still driving a car.

10/10/15 9:03 PM

dddd's Ducati speculation has some nostalgic allure.

I once had a Desmo 300 single. What an amazing piece of engineering that was, with desmodromic valves whose cams were operated by vertical shafts driven by spiral helical bevel gears, all in aluminum castings that looked like jewelry. All adjusted with shims. The bike itself was a ratty rusty old thing, but that engine was a thing of beauty, with a unique sound consisting almost entirely of bass and treble without mid-range. If you tap danced on a kettle drum while ripping fabric, you'd come close.