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    hard enough buying 2 tyres let alone 3!
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    It's coz they don't have corners in the States...
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    Revolting

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    I'm all for someone doing stuff they want to do but given the amount of power on tap, how has the front back wheel (if you get what I mean) got enough contact between the chain and the rear sprocket to actually turn? I wonder if it just becomes an idler wheel but I also wonder if there would be any difference in speed between the two wheels at any time? My brain hurts.
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    My $0.02.

    It's not about riding the bike, or even whether it goes well at all.

    You see, what you have here is an exercise in chequebook engineering. Someone (with too much money IMO) has asked "What if you..." and come up with something most of us probably would not want out of a bike, but it would appear something similar to what the owner wanted.

    It's just another custom bike. There's a lot of stuff on customs I don't understand, but which comes under "it's art - you don't have to understand it."
    And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ixion View Post
    Someone (I think the USian gentleman who crashed so badly) mentioned this a while ago. Apparently, it is all the craze in the USA. I guess America has taken over from Africa. Ex America , semper aliquod novae. The handling must be, um, 'interesting'.
    I just came back from the states and didn't see any of those!
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    Quote Originally Posted by 98tls View Post
    Look again Mark
    Yeah it isnt a Busa, looks more like a Kwaka I think, not 100% sure
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    Quote Originally Posted by Boob Johnson View Post
    Yeah it isnt a Busa, looks more like a Kwaka I think, not 100% sure
    Its a TLR,theres plenty of individual things to admire,has done a good job matching an R1 upper to TLR lowers etc.Riffer probably sums it up best i think,not my cup of tea but then it wasnt my cheque book that built it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by riffer View Post
    "it's art - you don't have to understand it."
    Well said

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    Damm I actually like it. Don't want to take it to the Akoroa GP but could be fun on a long straight. Seems to be a few of these around America can't just be for show

    Never gona wheelstand or stoppie for that matter could be good in a hell worked motor.

    If it drives of two wheels it could increase millage for the tyre could limit wheelspin to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by firefighter View Post
    I just came back from the states and didn't see any of those!
    yeah me too, but this thing make a whole lot more sense than some of the 'family SUVs' driving (and parking) around there. This one i saw in a mall carpark, that'd be four parks it's taking up in a crowded carpark.
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    It has to be a show bike.

    As the teeth on the middle drive sprocket would be quickly stripped off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ME!! View Post
    It's coz they don't have corners in the States...
    Hahaha, yup - that'll have the turning radius of the Queen Mary.
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    Looks like the trailer has had the same extending treament, the axle is set in a weird position


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    it would be awesome if it didnt have the extra wheel
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