The Nutty Professor
05-23-2008, 09:03 PM
I pulled this from Superbike Planet. Man this is one ugly rat bike. But what got my attention is the CT90 motor. The bike is supposed to be a FZ600. The guy who rides is...well read this...
Linedemann says, "This belongs to some local guy, and it really fascinated me. For a couple of years I'd see him riding, but I'd always be going the other way or in a hurry, or I didn't have a camera. Then one day I spotted the bike parked outside of a local bookstore."
"It appears to be mid-1980s Yamaha FZ600 chassis with the engine/gearbox removed. He's substituted a Honda Trail 90 engine (CT90) with its dual-range gearbox. And he's cobbled on a recoil-start mechanism from (as near as I can tell) a Honda ATC 90 three-wheeler."
"When I first saw this thing I was fascinated. I thought to myself, "That guy REALLY wants to ride to have gone to all that trouble. He must be really dedicated and just broke. I mean, you can probably buy a beater car for a couple of hundred bucks if all you want is basic transportation. This guy clearly wanted to be on two wheels."
Then a couple of months later I met him. I was disappointed. The dude wasn't a hard-core enthusiast—he was just weird, sort of the mental equivalent of the bike. In that way I guess they were perfectly matched."
I guess to each his own and I can see more of our horizontal motors being used on many more rides. Unless like I said before the lawyers get involved.
Linedemann says, "This belongs to some local guy, and it really fascinated me. For a couple of years I'd see him riding, but I'd always be going the other way or in a hurry, or I didn't have a camera. Then one day I spotted the bike parked outside of a local bookstore."
"It appears to be mid-1980s Yamaha FZ600 chassis with the engine/gearbox removed. He's substituted a Honda Trail 90 engine (CT90) with its dual-range gearbox. And he's cobbled on a recoil-start mechanism from (as near as I can tell) a Honda ATC 90 three-wheeler."
"When I first saw this thing I was fascinated. I thought to myself, "That guy REALLY wants to ride to have gone to all that trouble. He must be really dedicated and just broke. I mean, you can probably buy a beater car for a couple of hundred bucks if all you want is basic transportation. This guy clearly wanted to be on two wheels."
Then a couple of months later I met him. I was disappointed. The dude wasn't a hard-core enthusiast—he was just weird, sort of the mental equivalent of the bike. In that way I guess they were perfectly matched."
I guess to each his own and I can see more of our horizontal motors being used on many more rides. Unless like I said before the lawyers get involved.