| Author | Message | ||
     Jaimec |
I guess this is one way to make sure you can adequately grip the tank. Sure would hate to have to stop short with it, though...  Photographed in Huntington, NY by a friend of mine June 7, 2010. | ||
| Rwven |
Spykes-On-Bikes! | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Dunno about over there, in Europe it would be illegal & an immediate immobilisation order for dangerous parts. Hit a pedestrian with that & you're both shredded. | ||
| Geforce |
Ahhh hahahaha! I saw a guy on a custom cruiser here locally who had 2-3'' spikes in spine like formation going down his tank and rear fender. Silly. These are the kind of pictures needed in safety slide shows. | ||
| Drkside79 |
Here's your sign.... | ||
| Boliver |
Those spikes are not as Stupid as riding without a helmet.Now that is idiotic.I mean let's be honest here.I sure hope there aren't any organ donors(no helmets) on here trying to chime in about safety issues.LOL | ||
| Pwnzor |
PUNK ROCK!!!!! | ||
| Jaimec |
Boliver: Those things would shred any organs before they could be used... | ||
| Hootowl |
Is that a GS-850? | ||
| Rwven |
It's a Yamaha Maxim I think.... | ||
| Firebolt32 |
Those spikes are not as Stupid as riding without a helmet.Now that is idiotic.I mean let's be honest here.I sure hope there aren't any organ donors(no helmets) on here trying to chime in about safety issues.LOL Like the guy I saw last week on a black CR? No helmet, wife beater, cargo shorts and flip flops. As for the pic above, his "boys" are going to be pissed if he ever has to grab that front brake pretty hard. | ||
| Jaimec |
Yeah, Yamaha Maxim. Either the 650 or the 750, not sure which. | ||
| Hughlysses |
I remember Billy Lane built a bike with something worse than that- a chromed ornament that was sort of a "scrotum scarifier" located right in front of the seat.  | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Well the roads would be a lot safer if everybody had a six inch spike pointing at them from the middle of the wheel or the bars. | ||
| Damnut |
Maybe it's a 700, I hads me a Maxim 700 once. | ||
| Kyrocket |
Mad Max called... He wants his bike back! | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
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| Augustus74 |
When you look at the night sky, remember the NIGHT RIDER!!!! I always loved the bikes in this movie. | ||
| Biffdotorg |
1983 650 Maxim. I owned one exactly like it. I'ts not a 550 as you can see it is shaft drive (just barely) It's an '83 as it has the alloy swirl spoke wheels and chrome mirrors. It's a 650 as you can see the small cover over the bike lock is missing just below the battery cover. Crazy that I remember that little lock in there. You pulled it out with your ignition key and there was a chain lock included with the bike. Yamaha felt that the 650's would be stolen. I loved that bike just out of high school. I bought mine with 900 miles for $700 in '88 and sold it for double years later. Sorry I'm rambling, that photo, sans spikes, brought back a ton of memories of my first bike! | ||
| Jaimec |
I had two 1982 Yamahas, an XJ550RJ SECA, and an XJ650RJ SECA. Both came with a lock and chain. Shame nobody thinks to include that accessory anymore. Both bikes also had self-cancelling turn signals, and an ignition cut-out that would kill the engine if you put the bike in gear with the sidestand down. Amazing how many bikes to this day don't have any of those features that Yamaha had back then... INCLUDING Yamaha! | ||
| Kyrocket |
It reminded me, except the engine, of an '83 Honda Shadow 500 I had. That was a fun, dependable little bike. Sold it for more than I paid for it several years later. | ||
| Buellkowski |
I saw a spiked tank on a rat bike recently, painted flat black. Turned out the "spikes" weren't steel, but rather carefully deposited dollops of silicone rubber. | ||
| Hootowl |
"It reminded me, except the engine, of an '83 Honda Shadow 500 I had. That was a fun, dependable little bike. Sold it for more than I paid for it several years later." I had one of those as well. Rode the piss out of it for 70K miles, and it never let me down. | ||
| Froggy |
Thank god, I don't want that crap. Next thing you know they would of been installing some type of power cut off that prevents you from going WOT in lower gears! | ||
| Swordsman |
I saw a spiked tank on a rat bike recently, painted flat black. Turned out the "spikes" weren't steel, but rather carefully deposited dollops of silicone rubber. Now that's actually a smart idea, if you're bent on having the look. ~SM | ||
| Brumbear |
I hope thats a chicks bike cause you aint putting that crap near my package!!!!!!! | ||
| Brumbear |
Billy the exterminater's bike?  | ||
| Hughlysses |
Like I said, Billy Lane did one even dumber. Here's the piece on his bike "Miss Behavin":  | ||
| Jaimec |
Many years ago I saw my first Boss Hoss at a bike show. Right at the junction between the saddle and the gas tank was the distributor cap sitting a full three inches ABOVE both! Not only must it have been painful to stop short on that thing... the rider probably got a real "charge" out of riding in the rain, too!! | ||
| Brumbear |
OOOHHHHH my gawd I could just see that blue arc snapping as the rider just pissed himself and went into convulsions |
