Watch out Jesse James: Colorado Marine builds choppers in Al Asad

Marine Corps News ^ | Aug 11, 2005 | Sgt. Juan Vara

[llevrok]

American ingenuity strikes again!

Semper Fi

[Xenalyte]

Fabienne: Whose motorcycle is this?

Butch: It's a chopper, baby.

Fabienne: Whose chopper is this?

Butch: Zed's.

Fabienne: Who's Zed?

Butch: Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.

[Logophile]

From the headline, I thought he was building helicopters.

Now, that would be something.

[Melas]

My soul thanks me for riding my Harley. My heart thanks me for riding my bicycles.

[sit-rep]

Well, I don't know what the strength of T6 is, but you still would not see me going over too many bumps, too fast lol...

[upchuck]

He built a recumbent bike. Cool!!

Needs to switch to a comfortable seat.

[StarCMC]

I LOVE IT!! Gotta forward to hubby.

[StarCMC]

Of course hubby will want to know if this means Sandra Bullock will be hanging around this Marine! *GRIN*

[SandRat]

You can tell him that you've bought several new outfits just like she wears.

[Marine_Uncle]

"You have to sit on your own ba||$ to pedal it!"

heh heh heh. Hey Marine Brat! You should know better. Half the fun is dragging your jewels on the concrete at high speed! Their Marines no problem. This should be include into the standard boot camp itenary. High speed chases on concrete side walks at the two MCRDs. You measure how well a recruit has done by how much of their grapes are left. I guess the women recruits would be excussed from this particular test, since they have an un-fair advantage.

Semper Fi.

[StarCMC]

YIKES!! You know not what you say! LOL

[Marine_Uncle]

Great article. I am glad they get the chance to do a little creative off duty work. Now they should be figuring out how to mount twin 240Gs on the handle bars, and perhaps a rocket launcher system, perhaps a TOW system with full A/G radar etc.. Then issue em to the Iraqi forces to ride around in the villages of Al Anbar and do some damage.

[Uncle Jaque]

Now EVERY kid in Iraq is going to want one of those!

I don't see any derailers or sprocket clusters on that rig - so I suppose it's essentially a one-speed, eh?

[ASOC]

Thanks for the post!

[MarineBrat]

Half the fun is dragging your jewels on the concrete at high speed!

Hey Unc, I got nothing against dragging around, it's the squishing part that makes me cringe! :)

Actually, I spent about 15 years riding rice rockets, so I guess I shouldn't be complaining.

[JoeSixPack1]

144-spoke wheels

That alone gives you sainthood. The patience of a saint(Buddhist Monk, ZEN Master, Quy Chang Kane, etc.) is required to string the darn thing! :-)

And Jesse James' only competition was Soupy Sales, Bozo or Gomer Pyle. But on second thought, I think I'm overstating JJ's intelligence.

[martin_fierro]

And Jesse James' only competition was Soupy Sales, Bozo or Gomer Pyle. But on second thought, I think I'm overstating JJ's intelligence.

LOL

True dat.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!

[Looking4Truth]

I don't see any derailers or sprocket clusters on that rig - so I suppose it's essentially a one-speed, eh?

I was getting ready to post a reply to the original about a friend of mine who builds chopper bicycles with derailers and sprockets from mountain bikes.

We live in a hilly area and this was a great idea. I've seen them in action and watched the rider pedal up a grade of about 25-30% sitting down.

I like the Marine's frame designs better, though.

[blackie]

All Choppers Suck ~ Big Time!