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Junkle
10-18-2005, 05:19 PM
Words fail me . . . :cry

http://home.earthlink.net/~junkle/images/wtf.jpg

I didn't know they made bikes that ugly in 1953 . . .

C.
boomyr
10-18-2005, 05:43 PM
is that at one of those "Barrett-Jackson" Auctions , like on espn?
Burnszilla
10-18-2005, 05:53 PM
Leichtlebig Reiter
Junkle
10-18-2005, 06:57 PM
Sadly it was at a motorcycle "show" (quotation marks used because, while there were some nice bikes there, it was waste of time going to it).

I still just can't imagine doing that to a 1953 anything.

c.
Mika
10-18-2005, 10:55 PM
Beauty is as beauty does,
But ugly cuts to the bone.
:hungover
BubbaZanetti
10-19-2005, 11:52 AM
haha, i would totally take that bike, for the "ratbikes and sweatpants" gang
jmerlino
10-19-2005, 01:00 PM
I kinda like it.

:hide
Junkle
10-20-2005, 08:29 AM
While I can't honestly say I like it, I do bet the guy who owns it has fun with it. I guess that is the main thing.

Better to be ridden ugly than stored beautiful . . .

c.
Mika
10-20-2005, 08:37 AM
While I can't honestly say I like it, I do bet the guy who owns it has fun with it. I guess that is the main thing.

Better to be ridden ugly than stored beautiful . . .

c.

Agreed!

It does grow on you, but the seat has to go.
KBasa
10-20-2005, 10:30 AM
That's how choppers really got started kids. Folks took the bike they had and changed it around to the way they wanted it.

:dunno
knary
10-20-2005, 10:44 AM
That's how choppers really got started kids. Folks took the bike they had and changed it around to the way they wanted it.

:dunno


:nod

The ugliest part is the seat and that's mostly a reflection of when this bike was modified.

I am so not a cruiser guy (is that Helen I hear laughing), but I'd love to see what someone like the folks at zero engineering (http://www.zerochop.com/) would do with an old beemer.

http://www.zerochop.com/photo/FILE1/50WL/50wl3.jpg

http://www.zerochop.com/photo/FILE3/48ham/48ham.jpg
jmerlino
10-20-2005, 11:44 AM
I love Zero. Those guys do the greatest bobber style bikes.
Mika
10-20-2005, 12:38 PM
That's how choppers really got started kids. Folks took the bike they had and changed it around to the way they wanted it.

:dunno

Not just choppers. Modifying things to suit our taste is one of the joys of motorcycles, particularly "naked" bikes like the Roadster and the Rockster.

The seat still has to go.

And whats up with the drip pan under the engine. It is a German chopper not British :laugh
BMWBeauty
10-20-2005, 01:10 PM
Beauty is as beauty does,
But ugly cuts to the bone.
:hungover


Most Men Sould Know....
Some Can't See Ugly Through Blood Shot Eyes...... :lol
Mika
10-20-2005, 01:19 PM
Most Men Sould Know....
Some Can't See Ugly Through Blood Shot Eyes...... :lol

:laugh, Not ment as a challenge or editorial comment BMWBeauty, perhaps I should have paraphrased the old saying and written - but ugly cuts to the frame.
:hide
Sue
10-20-2005, 03:17 PM
A friend of ours had fun with an old airhead and created this beauty. It is actually quite nice!
Sue
10-20-2005, 03:23 PM
Here is another picture of Aaron Haefer's BMW Cruiser..... :clap
lorazepam
10-20-2005, 04:33 PM
Check this one out
Mika
10-20-2005, 09:48 PM
:thumb