"The brain is such a wonderful instrument (until God sinks his teeth into it). Some people hear Tiny Tim singing when they go under, and some others hear the song of the Sausage Creature.

- Hunter S. Thompson"

That's a little bit intriguing Conrice. I have heard of HST, but never read any of his work.

Can you recommend a kindle download to get me started?

Thanks

TK

(Sorry, not a picture post).

 

That tid bit is from "The Sausage Creature" which was HST's review of the Ducati 900ss. I forget exactly which motorcycle magazine got him to do it, but one of the bigger magazines state-side was able to get him to test the Duc and do a write-up on it. It's a brilliant piece (not so much if you actually wanted to know anything about the 900ss though) and its totally HST style. You never knew what you were going to get, I feel bad for his bosses trying to keep him on schedule at rolling stone.

EDIT: Found it, Cycle World

http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html

 

Cycle World - best Bike magazine ever. I used to buy it purely for the "Duct Tapes" article.

Yes; Hunter S Thompson is obviously an interesting character, I think I will go off on a Google search to find more of his work.

Thanks Conrice.

 

 

A modern tribute to the "Road Dog". Love the attitude, maybe don't love the end product quite so much.

Those open, unfiltered, throttle bodies are a recipe for a short engine life (imagine if a small child got sucked into one, that would seriously compromise your engine).

But yeah, if you want to seriously kick some ***, that would probably do it.

 

That's one of those "because I can and its cool" bikes. Glad to see some built a bike around a V10 as opposed to a V8 like the now, almost cliche, Boss Hoss.

I saw a Lamborghini this past weekend. I tried to give him a go with my Huyandai Sonata, but he wanted none of it, must have scared him...

 

Isn't the one in the above pic a V12?

 

Well, well, well - look who can count! haha, maybe I should start paying attention. My bad.


Still, it's a breath of fresh air that its a 12

 

while I'm usually all about huge engines on bikes, this one doesn't do anything for me. i get that it's a fabulous engine but the whole build isn't much to look at. but i guess that may not be the point.

 

It's still a whole heap prettier than the Road Dog, and that thing is now famous.

Give it time; every Dog has his day.