Chicara's creation took 7500 hours to complete and was the well deserved winner of the 2008 AMD Worldchampionship
I'm a big fan of the work of Masanori Kimura. The toy rocket paint job is pure genius.
10 years ago H.O.T won every show with this bike. This year they returned to Daytona and still won second place at the Rat's Hole Show in the radical class. Which proves a good design to be timeless.
Designed by artist Grayson Perry and built by Battistini's to take (as an Art project) his favorite Teddy Bear (not joking, in a shrine at the back!) in 2010 for a trip to Germany . The bike is now in the British Museum. Here design became art literally.
Mr Hook wanted to make the lightest HD ever, he succeeded by using expensive racing components byKabaya (forks, shocks) and magnesium wheels.
Sapka Muvek from Hungary blew away the competition at the European Custombike show in 2007 with his Time Machine.The engineering on this retro theme bike was awesome. Honda Accord automatic gearbox connected to a '36 Knuckle, hand started by a big lever on the left side and possibility to raise and drop the bike by adjustable suspension.
Awesome machine! Great dragbike design with a tuned up "73 FX shovel engine and lots of nice race details, only the front fender is positioned a bit too high for my taste, but thats a minor detail on a further flawless bike.
In the 70's/ eighties with almost no aftermarket parts available, hand/ home built bikes like these were called "a built from scratch "bike. In Sweden there are still a lot of bikes like this. Check out the Nortellje show (every first Saturday in June)