The finest motorized bike ever built?

[JemmaUK]

I dont know whether to laugh or cry....

On the one side it looks ok.. but what on earth is with that suspension set up?

and having a seating position where your skull is pointing towards the ground isnt the wisest of moves....

on the whole... I'll let someone else ride that

Jemma xx

 

[grezm0nkey]

i dont know about u guys, but work like that sets my little gears spinning 2 or 3 units over redline. i visited chica's shop in socal, really nice guy. dont know if this is related to any of his or his friends stuff. looks like stuff from zero engineering. i think the site is zerochop.com. they bend on the flat track theme. stuff like that to me......oooooh man, no words. best i could attempt to say is...........craftsman. great stuff hough

grez

 

[machiasmort]

Why buy Hough's bike out from under him? Obama takes office soon, and all that wealth will be redistributed.

Heck, I'm real poor so I should wind up with a rim or somethin cool.

I can't wait till they get by Acreeguy's house. He ain't been on much lately, (probably diggin a hole in the backyard to hide that new 2008 Lotus).

I called dib's on the hood ornament!!!

 

[HoughMade]

They can have my bike when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.

 

[Mairead]

As Einstein is alleged to have said, the two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. I'd say bad design runs a close third.

 

[Skyliner70cc]

At least there isn't anyone on this forum who has bought a million dollar motorbike. Another forum I participate in has a member who blew a million dollars on a Ferrari on a whim during a vacation.

I guess I'm happy that I finally got a jackshaft kit for my bike and am saving up for a tuned pipe exhaust. If I struck it rich by hard work or dumb luck, I'd probably use my money to hire engineers to redesign the HT engine into something more reliable, more powerful and better quality. Simple rework of the bearings, port timing, electronic ignition which automatic ignition advance for more power and spark retard for easier starts, and a real carb with reed valve intake would also help.

Too bad we can't any of the vendors to invest their energy into bringing the HT design up to current technology.

 

[sideshowsideswipe]

Why buy Hough's bike out from under him? Obama takes office soon, and all that wealth will be redistributed.

Are they going to redistribute the wealth the taxpayers are being forced to spend on an invasion of a foreign country? or the billions of taxpayer money being given to banks? Socialism is bad when it benefits poor people but okay if you are giving more money to rich people? go figure.

 

[hot70cc]

LOL, Gotta love people with more money than brains. Maybe i should take my bike frame with some shocks and go to a chrome shop and put a value of 1 MIL on it maybe some idiot would by it. lol

 

[Irish John]

$1,000,000.00

Yes, I got the number of zeros right. More art than motoredbike. Powered by a 1966 Honda moped engine w 1.5hp


http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/11/million-dollar.html
http://www.chicara.com/chicara-art-4.html


I have to admit...the best motored bikes are found on Wired.com

If the little rear axle mounted Honda is a million dollar bike then yours would fetch half a million Hough. Mine will be reinsured for about $300K now that I've seen those. With the price of a GXH 50 rising in Jan to the Aus $600+ mark maybe people will start tinkering with the old HS to get it's power to match the Honda.

 

[Irish John]

At least there isn't anyone on this forum who has bought a million dollar motorbike. Another forum I participate in has a member who blew a million dollars on a Ferrari on a whim during a vacation.

I guess I'm happy that I finally got a jackshaft kit for my bike and am saving up for a tuned pipe exhaust. If I struck it rich by hard work or dumb luck, I'd probably use my money to hire engineers to redesign the HT engine into something more reliable, more powerful and better quality. Simple rework of the bearings, port timing, electronic ignition which automatic ignition advance for more power and spark retard for easier starts, and a real carb with reed valve intake would also help.

Too bad we can't any of the vendors to invest their energy into bringing the HT design up to current technology.

Trying to get the vendors to listen is like breaking wind in a hurricane. They are still selling the 4-stroke kits with the 56T sprocket which nobody seems to use. Getting quality out of China is also a waste of time. I'm just waiting to see what Motorbike Mike's silent GB turns out to be like. Then there is the evr present problem of finding a good host bike.