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Do u think a dirt bike chopper cross? |
a dirt bike lowerd in the rear with increased rake in the front street leagle with off road caipabilitys (bumpy trails) no stealing my idea No one will steal this stupid idea. It's not gonna work. Do the math and you will see why. Who would want to steal an idea like that!!!!!! You'd really lose a lot of its off road ability by adding extra weight and length. And dirt bike and chopper styles are just very different. I don't see such a combination doing anything well, although it wouldn't be much stranger than many other theme choppers that are about looks and not riding. There are quite a few "adventure bikes" out there that are pretty good road bikes with decent off road capability, but they don't look very chopper-like. It's already been done. Rick Sieman, a.k.a. Super Hunky of Dirt Bike Magazine fame and Jim Connelly teamed up in the early 70's to run the Mint 400 desert race on a Triumph powered extended front end chopper. They put Koni shocks and knobby tires on it and went racing. The idea was to bring public awarness to a then pending bill in California that was to outlaw extended and radically raked front ends. They felt that if the bike could finish the race in one piece then that would go a long to prove the design could handle anything the street could throw at it. Hunk crashed the bike early on, admiting that the bike handled terribly and turned even worse. Connelly, who at the time was a highly ranked pro desert racer and member in good standings of the infamous Checkers M/C club managed to put in some impressive lap times further proving that in off road racing it's more about the rider than the bike. They did finish, and they did place, and the bike (for the cameras anyway) was intact. The bill was later defeated thanks in no small part to Rick and Jim and thier epic ride in the desert that day. However, niether rider ever attempted such a feat again, and while talking to Hunk about the race he told me that the bike was the most vile handling, poorly suspeneded and evil turning bike he ever had the misfortune of throwing a leg over. There were many times during the race that he questioned his own sanity and if he and the bike would even make it back in one piece. There's your history lesson for the day. ;) The whole idea deserves a cross............when you bury it! |
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