Posted on 03/26/2011 11:17:55 AM PDT by smokingfrog
The guys at Parker Brothers Choppers are responsible for the awesome monstrosity that you see above – they call it the Huffy Green Machine and comes with an 80-cubic inch Harley Davidson Evo engine.
Jeff Halverson explained: We had a Green Machine lying around the shop and we figured it would be a cool idea. It rides crazy and is fast as hell. If it wasn’t for the rear tires we could have had it DOT approved.
The team is going for a Guinness record: the largest front wheel on a motorcycle trike.
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Between the Parker Brothers and the Big Wheel, I thought it was a toy. Well, it is. Just a big kid toy.
That basic long-stroke 45-degree engine was a bad idea for an engine in 1910 or whenever they concocted it and it's still a bad idea, some things never change much.
Not a bad concept in general...but visibility is awful!
You probably wouldn’t want to ride it in the rain either.
The V-twin is basically one quarter of a radial engine, one of the best designs ever concocted.
They’ve been making the Evo since 1984.
Plus, a front blowout would likely be fatal.
Your thoughts?
Not to mention trying to turn.
Are you aware that during WW-II when the military needed reliable motorcycles for curriers, Harley was producing imitation BMW opposed and shaft driven bikes for four years, and then went straight back to building the same stupid garbage the day after the war ended? I mean, they tried running normal Harleys out in the desert in Arizona and after five minutes the real cylinder cooked itself (no air to rear cylinder with inline 45-V) and after ten minutes the sand tore the chain apart.
That’s a snowmobile somebody put wheels on.
Pictures, please.
Of only 1000 XA's built, none ever saw combat, and only 30 are thought to still exist intact.
Meanwhile, the V-twin rolls on...
“It rides crazy and is fast as hell.”
Mine would eat that thing for lunch and spit out the bones.
[hubby’s trike would just swallow it whole]
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Thank you for saving me the trouble...:)
That puts it in better perspective. Cool.
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