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Favorite Comment: Fixer Daniel says, “What do you mean no storage capacity? With a roll of duct tape, you can tape a ton of stuff on that hood.”
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The real question is, how many miles to the gallon does it get?
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Lots of trunk space!
@Mandy
zero trunk space that is the engine, with a front wheel drive compact GM sedan from the 80′s
Zero trunk space assuming that the engine hasn’t been removed.
I’d like to see a short vid of this thing turning a corner.
Oh…and are those particleboard fins on the back?
Please tell me it’s powered by the car motor.
And some skeptics said that this Clunker program would not work!
@Transit161
It is, the bike has no engine!
@quetejodan
quemejodan! I think you are right. I hadn’t even noticed that detail. Is that the transmission lever under the gas tank of the bike? This is then really sublime (if it works).
I guess the plywood in the back is meant to seal the engine compartment. I would love to see what they are doing with the exhaust.
And yeah, I would love to see that thing turn a corner. I guess the steering is locked, but that would probably impede the differential tranny from doing its thing.
Reminds me of this: http://www.mrsharkey.com/pusher.htm
This is beautiful!
Completely breath taking in it’s sheer audacity of design.
GREAT… now instead of an EV my husband wants to build this!
and what a lovely shade of brown that cycle is
ha! i spit on your lowly vw powered tricycle!
@gzuckier
I don’t think this falls in the category of “Trikes” – more like “Yikes!”
some guy in my town made something like this, only it was the back of a car not the front. and its really sweet and well built and he rides it around town all the time
This is a picture of what we will all be driving after a certain president (no names) runs our country into inconceivable debt.
“I told that S.O.B. to stop ridin’ my ass. Now look what’s happened!”
Uh-Mazing!
Wait, so if the shift lever is on the left side, Where the hell would the clutch be?
Also wondering if the rear brake pedal is rigged to trigger the hydraulic braking in the car. There is no way that the front brake is enough for this beast.
Steering it has got to be interesting unless it’s modified to allow more wheel movement than most bikes.
It’s possible to rear end its front end.
The front wheel turns the bike just like any other tricycle. As my 14 year old would say that’s EPIC. I know I hate the word too.
Looks like someone is pushing the whole Cash for Clunkers campaign a little too far. Let’s see. Got half a bike. Got half a car. Put them together. Bam! That’a work!
Open the hood and put a set of car seats in it!!!
@YvesPaul
If you want to burn your arse? Do exacty that!
I assume the “steering is locked” comment referred to the front-wheel drive vehicle that makes up the rear half of this exercise in abomineering. Obviously the steering in the forks still works.
What would be really cool is to link the two so you have a 3-wheel steer. Take that GM QuadraSteer!
Oh, and gas mileage? Who in the world is worried about gas mileage with a beautiful creation like this? There’s more to life than gas mileage, and this is a prime offering to demonstrate that life lesson.
“dude …there’s a car right behind you”
Must be an early version of the Dodge Hemi.
how DUMB can you be?? this is str8 up photoshopped you LOSERS!!
There’s a gaping hole where the bike engine should be, so yes, I think the disembodied car head is the power source. I would absolutely rock this vehicle. It is awfully clunky for something with no storage capacity though.
What do you mean no storage capacity? With a roll of duct tape, you can tape a ton of stuff on that hood.
You think the car headlights still work? How trick would that be in the dark?
1. If I want to hear our president’s character be assassinated, I’ll turn on Fox News.
2. Anyone who cries photo shop needs to be booted!
It must be stated that whoever put this beast together is positively a mechanical wizard.
Maybe this is just the aftermath of a really bad accident.
@dono1
This is not the “aftermath” of a bad accident. It could be the “frontermath” to a bad accident, if someone drove it fast and tried to turn too sharply. I doubt that will happen if the builder is driving. There is too much work in the thing to risk destroying it.
Is it just a parade car, or does he drive it to work every day?
motorcycles turn by leaning. this thing doesn’t lean.
Motorcycles lean to turn. Trikes turn at their tripple-trees. Can-am spiders lean OUT to turn, like a snow mobile. Not all cycles turn like bicycles.
the advantage of a car is it’s comfortable enclosure, the advantage of a motorcycle is it’s nimble handling and speed. This thing has eliminated both these advantages. Despite it’s MadMax beauty, it’s utterly silly. Unless of course, you had only half a car, half a motorbike and a welder.
@heyyyoh: Now you know what happened to the front.
A true redneck piece of work! It looks like crap and probably drives like it too! You would have to have a bright red neck to drive it! FAIL!
Well, it’s no worse than any other motortrike I’ve ever seen.
http://assets.mediaspanonline.com/prod/308453/view_6326700.jpg
I wonder if the lights on the car work. then the bike would have brights as well
Prototype vehicle that will save GM.
@Transit161
Well, there isn’t an engine in the motorcycle, so I think so.
What is that old saying, “Two fronts don’t make a right?”
the “donor” car for this looks like the Pontiac 6000. That came with a 2.8L port injected V6 motor that hauled that wallowing fat four door with respectable authority. In this extremely light configuration, it could prove to be a very fast quarter-miler, definitely a widowmaker.
Sweet!
So if a side car is on the side, what is this called? Back car?
@Badgirl
or maybe it’s a “front bike”
It actually does lean, perhaps too much. The car half of this thing has independent front suspension (now rear). Cars have four point suspension. That means each wheel is suspended on a spring. Vehicles like tractors, forklifts and trikes have three point suspension. This means that two of the wheels are fixed, while the other two are on an axle which pivots in the center. So, they always find their level balance. Two-wheeled motorcycles find their balance through the gyroscopic action of the spinning wheels. This device might have a hard time finding its balance, unless they super beefed up the front (now rear) sway bar of the car section. Or maybe it works just fine.
Front wheel rear wheel drive?
Look again at that shifter under the bike gas tank: it’s very obviously an automatic. That’s the only way a shifter down there would be practical – just throw it in drive and go.
Damn, this thing probably has a working reverse.
As to turning, it wouldn’t be too bad if he’s stiffened up the car suspension. If he hasn’t, it’s going to wallow around corners like crazy.
Too bizarre.
Now that’s a hybrid vehicle!
I’ve seen something similar, only made from a Ford Tempo front half. As ugly as I think Tempos are, this guy was really good at making and putting together custom fiberglass panels. Just a low-buck version of the classic “Trike”.
I wonder if the headlights work? It’d be weird seeing this head-on at night if they do.
H.P. Lovecraft would *love* this… uh… “vehicle.”
How do so many people not see that this picture is photoshoped?
Anything look a little strange to the right of the car? Like maybe some grass growing on the road, or on the tree?
Assuming this is a genuine abomination, if the rider were light enough and had a mind to really floor it whilst on an incline, could the engine’s torque conceivably flip the motorcycle front, AND rider, up and over and smack into the pavement behind it like a great, ugly flyswatter?
I thought my friend had the only one of these…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmcd9/501629141/
Sweet – If you hit a good and solid stationary object, you can rear-end yourself!
Mother of Bob! Garrett is right! There is grass growing on the other side of the curb at the base of that tree/telephone pole when obviously, according to the rest of the picture, there should be… … …grass… …oh…wait…nevermind…it’s not shopped.
I would be terrified to ride/drive this thing. Every time I looked in the mirror, it would be “CAR!” and I’d instinctively gun it to get away… that ‘aint gonna’ work here. I already have nightmares about being run over by cars that I can’t get away from… and that was before seeing this. Yikes!
The guy should duct-tape a couch or something to the hood, just to make it look less like he’s being followed by some homicidal jerk.
repair WIN awesome I’d like to see that going down the street ha ha ha ha ha ha!:D