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Big Bike: Mightiest ride ever build

Wilhelm

Wilhelm

Monkey
Aug 10, 2003
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10.450 pounds, 800 horsepower:

"Tilo Niebel and his co-pilot, Wilfred Niebel, ride the world's heaviest motorcycle onto a scale in Zilly, a town in Germany's Harz Mountain region. Officials from Guinness World Records were on hand to certify the bad bike as the world's heaviest -- it weighed in at 4.740 kilograms (10.450 pounds). Tilo Niebel built the motorcycle and side car around an 800 horsepower engine from a Russian T55 tank." (http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,518520,00.html)
 

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S.K.C.

S.K.C.

Turbo Monkey
Feb 28, 2005
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Pa. / North Jersey
Heh - not bad, but I think Jesse James from West Coast Choppers might have a better looking one:







...it's made from a Peterbuilt semi-tractor trailor.
 
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danger

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Oct 21, 2007
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Wilhelm said:
10.450 pounds, 800 horsepower:

"Tilo Niebel and his co-pilot, Wilfred Niebel, ride the world's heaviest motorcycle onto a scale in Zilly, a town in Germany's Harz Mountain region. Officials from Guinness World Records were on hand to certify the bad bike as the world's heaviest -- it weighed in at 4.740 kilograms (10.450 pounds). Tilo Niebel built the motorcycle and side car around an 800 horsepower engine from a Russian T55 tank." (http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,518520,00.html)
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im sorry, but there is no way the worlds heaviest bike weights 10 pounds, unless you mean 10,450
 
bohorec

bohorec

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Jun 26, 2007
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some must be under such pressure in school :disgust1: thousand separators and stuff..:disgust1:. After all this math it must be so hard to assess weight of vehicle from the picture...
 
Wilhelm

Wilhelm

Monkey
Aug 10, 2003
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To top all the monster bikes we´ve seen before:
28,660 pounds, (?) horsepower, almost 29.5ft long and more than 9.8ft high:

"The Australian monster will be on show at the Melbourne Motor Show which runs from 29 February. What’s the Australian monster, you might ask? Is it a mutant kangaroo? No. Is it perhaps a pet Tazmanian devil? Wrong again. It’s a 13 ton/28 660 pound two-wheeler devised by Ray Baumann, a man who used to make a living out of trying to stop his own living. He was a stunt driver who has also driven trains, among other lifestyle activities.

Powered by a Detroit Diesel truck engine, mated to a 6-speed Allison automatic, this thing stands almost 9 metres/ 29.5ft long and more than 3 metres/ 9.8ft high. In fact, as seen in these pics, a full grown man doesn’t even stand up to one of the Monster Motorbike’s wheels. Caterpillar provided these wheels straight from their front-end loader, a beast on its own, used to terrorizing the earth in all manner of sorts.

"We did stunt driving for quite a few years, broke a few records and broke my back a few times, so this is a way of taking a bit more care," says Baumann.
"Now we crush things, which is definitely less risky than jumping them - we still do jump things, but not at the Melbourne Motor Show."
The thrill it appears, comes from rolling over smaller objects like school buses or trucks like a Ford’s F 150 for instance." (http://www.worldcarfans.com/9080129.022/monster-motorbike-for-motor-show)
 
seismic

seismic

Turbo Monkey
Dec 22, 2003
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Wilhelm said:
To top all the monster bikes we´ve seen before:
28,660 pounds, (?) horsepower, almost 29.5ft long and more than 9.8ft high:

"The Australian monster will be on show at the Melbourne Motor Show which runs from 29 February. What’s the Australian monster, you might ask? Is it a mutant kangaroo? No. Is it perhaps a pet Tazmanian devil? Wrong again. It’s a 13 ton/28 660 pound two-wheeler devised by Ray Baumann, a man who used to make a living out of trying to stop his own living. He was a stunt driver who has also driven trains, among other lifestyle activities.

Powered by a Detroit Diesel truck engine, mated to a 6-speed Allison automatic, this thing stands almost 9 metres/ 29.5ft long and more than 3 metres/ 9.8ft high. In fact, as seen in these pics, a full grown man doesn’t even stand up to one of the Monster Motorbike’s wheels. Caterpillar provided these wheels straight from their front-end loader, a beast on its own, used to terrorizing the earth in all manner of sorts.

"We did stunt driving for quite a few years, broke a few records and broke my back a few times, so this is a way of taking a bit more care," says Baumann.
"Now we crush things, which is definitely less risky than jumping them - we still do jump things, but not at the Melbourne Motor Show."
The thrill it appears, comes from rolling over smaller objects like school buses or trucks like a Ford’s F 150 for instance." (http://www.worldcarfans.com/9080129.022/monster-motorbike-for-motor-show)
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I guess the most appropriate question must be "why?"
 
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General Lee

Turbo Monkey
Oct 16, 2003
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Ian Collins said:
yup......i agree.....we're just the first to dumb down.....others will follow.....although, i'm not sure about countries like japan....they have little tolerance for mediocrity
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please tell me. . . that you used all those elipses . . . . to prove. . . a point . . about how poorly some. . .people. . . are . . . able to . . type a coherent . . . grammatically correct. . . thought . . .

even if you didn't do it on purpose it's still funny. +10
 
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Luniz82

Chimp
Jul 7, 2008
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The "Red Porsche Killer", powered by four Horex motorcycle engines from the 1960s


"Dolmette", driven by quite a few Dolmar chainsaw engines (24 in total...)
 
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