It shows how big your penis is.
Because you can.
Or small. Somebody’s compensating.
What part of “This is America; we’ll build a 250% oversized version of anything you care to name” don’t you recognize? The USA has always been this way.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find somebody somewhere breeding 75 lb Chihuahua’s. Why? Because they can.
I think the only fully correct answer for this question would have to be expressed as a series of grunts and howl-like noises which would not translate well into this medium.
Are you familiar with the works of a man named Tim Allen?
Some of the options are nice.
Yeah, but the expense…
One of my heroes, Glenn Hammond Curtiss, the real father of flight, built a V8 motorcycle and set a world record of 136.36 mph - in 1907.
Unless the guy in the picture is like 6’10, it really doesn’t look that huge to me. What’s the big deal?
Profile shot doesn’t show it. Page through the photo gallery and various pics on site. The bike is almost twice as wide a normal motorcycle. It’s as wide as a washing machine. You sit on it with your legs practically akimbo.
Oh. Fuck.
Thanks.
I don’t think the first bike you linked to is even ridable. That rear wheel looks like something off a car.
While it’s big, I don’t think it’s the same bike even as the one linked in the OP. There’s a 360 degree picture, and you can see in the pictures that the rear wheel is a regular motorcycle tire. The thing is stupid big, but not as bad as your picture. Browsing around on their site, I don’t see pictures anything like what you linked to, and there are several pictures of people riding or sitting on the thing.
Also, you can look at the tires to get an idea of scale. The stock rear tire is a 230/60. So it’s only 9 inches across. Looking at the front view, the front tire is 130mm across, so you can get an idea of how wide the bike it. The seating position looks uncomfortable to me, but no more so than what a bunch of Harley riders consider to be bog standard.
Short answer. The same reason the average person would have a Hummer or a 100k+ sports car.
Conspicuous consumption.
Long answer, I’ve wanted one for years and will have no trouble at all dealing with the comments about compensating and questions about what on Earth I could possibly want one for. Because I can.
I think you’ve been whooshed. Here’s a review of the bike from back when they still came with the car tire in the back.
The thing that you linked to isn’t meant to be ridden as a motorcycle. It’s either a publicity stunt or a drag bike. Well, to be honest it’s probably both. When you read “automotive tire” on the wiki page, you should think “something off my family car” and not “something I nicked from the Ferrari F-1 team when they were busy whining about not being able to spend so much money next year.” Putting something that wide on the back of a bike that’s meant to be able to turn is counterproductive.
While the engine and tank are very wide, you’re not sitting on top of them. If you have to sit with your “legs akimbo” to ride this thing, then you have to do that with every forward controlled Harley, too. The only difference in this case is the automatic transmission and the V-8 between your knees, instead of a V-twin rattling your dentures out. My favorite feature are the chromed up heat shields on the headers. They’re so space-age!
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I think you’ve been whooshed. Here’s a review of the bike from back when they still came with the car tire in the back.
Here’s a better pic.Per you note the one I linked to was apparently some modifed specimen. Still a wide ride.
We went to a cycle show in NW Ohio. Some guy had stuffed a 500 ci engine into a cycle frame.
It was a sight to behold. The bike was not nice looking, but all that engine packed in there, wow.
Come on Astro, Have you copmletely lost touch with the kid in you that says “Wow! That’s just too f’n cool!”…?
I’d never own one, but the sight of it does make me want to beat my chest and club some woman over the head with my beat’n stick.
Some of the options are very nice, indeed.