[iandel]

G'day,

I was just looking at the Triumph web page with links to the Triumphs in this new ESPN show.
Metric Build Off

While I can appreciate the workmanship and effort put into building these machines, I have to ask "Why?". How deformed would someone have to be to be able to actually ride one of these "Artworx"?

I know we all like different things so I am sure that they appeal to some (even Paul Smith bikes have been sold, or so I am told), but not to me.

 

[AaronB]

I can't figure the whole trend.

Do they actually sell these things. I have yet to see very many. Even in Ocean city bike week I saw a few, but they kind of just blendid in anyway.


eh, I can take 'em or leave 'em.

 

[tba-golfer]

Good grief...we absolutely must shield Dazco from the abomination of the Speedie.

I'm not so sure his heart could take it.



:hammer:

 

[trypcil]

Lets hope they come up with something worthwhile as opposed to some old tut! The whole harley build off thing is getting dire - the cut it and weld approach to gi(e)lding the lilly is not goin' to work with metric bikes and I hope the stock in trade chopper approach
doesn't rear it's ugly head - sure it will though - BORING and uncreative that ! :razz:

 

[Cheapbastard]

The guys from Mocksville that built that crazy orange 955 powered beastie are some friends of mine. I don't quite git the whole thang either, but these guys have came a long way, and I respect them fer that and their love fer 2 wheels. Just 5 years ago they were work'n in a small building behind their house, and now they are quite well known. :-D A couple of pics of the beastie at a local bike show I went to a little over a month ago. :-D

[ This message was edited by: cheapbastard on 2007-01-10 13:31 ]

 

[tba-golfer]

:wow:

 

[Wombat]

uke:
uke:
uke:

 

[LoVel]

I like to see the Triumph name out there but that is a little to far out there for my taste.

 

[rodburner]

The blue RocketIII and the red/silver Daytona could both look sweet in my garage. The others were a TAD over the top. :-D :-D

[ This message was edited by: rodburner on 2007-01-10 14:31 ]

 

[Mikey-S3]

Inhuman bastards, look at what that guy did to that poor speedy...

 

[trypcil]

It doesn't look like there's much hope, if all that tut, is all that there is! I'm expecting more of the same garbage - dull, dull dull! Maybe something new and inspired will come of it though - not expecting much just wanked out lowriders and choppers - more garbage for the Chaps and check book brigade ready to splash on a piece of shi-ite
to feed the midlife crisis. :razz:

 

[steventhechef]

Are the spikey bits on the orange bike for catch deer? or pedestrians?

 

[LEE]

There is no question that the custom work is very detailed and nice, but they don't look like they would handle well. The other thing that makes me a little on the edge is the point spearlike areas. I would hate to be run through by my own bike..

 

[akenaten]

Same old same old.I wonder if we'll ever tire of it?

 

[HiDesert]

I sure as #@!! have. What ludicrous junk. I'm just amazed that one builder had the ba!!s to make something other than a long-painted-frame-wide-rear-tire-stretched-fork "chopper." How desperate for other people's approval/attention would you have to be to actually want one of these things? uke:

 

[akenaten]

" How desperate for other people's approval/attention would you have to be to actually want one of these things? " uke:

You have just hit upon why so many want Harleys. And notice the vast majority of those godawful things(choppers) have Harley motors.
As for your question: they are very desparate and they also have vestigal genitals.

Now as a disclaimer:in the interest of full disclosure I can't stop thinking about that Sportster Roadster I looked at a while back.Help me! My junk is shrinking!!

[ This message was edited by: akenaten on 2007-01-12 18:58 ]

 

[Tbirdnz]

Totally grotesque, they've drifted so far from the concept of motorcycles that they appear to be designed for similar shaped riders from another planet. A Klingon wouldn't look out of place on one of them.

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Ride on !

 

[Normandy]

Being a bike artist myself, I look past the concept of it being a practical ride and try to focus heavily on it's merit as a sculpture. Most extreme builds are not even road-worthy.
This orange creation, for my taste anyway = :roflmoa2:

 

[akenaten]

As a sculpture I can understand the things.

 

[LEE]

Hey it seems that bikes with the ability to impale, handle poorly and have custom paint jobs are in. Unfortunatley this is why we are seeing OCC so much.