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bmadson
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  		   Posted 10/25/2007 9:32 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Working out of their shop in the Detroit suburbs, brothers James and Dave Kaye are up-and-comers in the custom builder scene as the aptly named Detroit Bros. Check out MotorcycleUSA's Custom Builder: Detroit Bros. article.
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  		   Posted 10/25/2007 11:50 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I like the use of the HD Rapido 125cc dirt bike fuel tank. But adding the spikes makes it look high school. I am disturbed by the groin-busting post forward of the seat. I realize the intent was to allow the seat to be placed lower but that could have been achieved by turning the engine sideways (ala Guzzi); a longitudinally mounted engine would have allowed them to keep the seat height low while eliminating the groin-buster post, allowed them to design a better flowing line from the tank to the seat, and allowed them to shorten the wheelbase to 60-inches or less.

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  		   Posted 10/26/2007 4:12 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
What junk! Yet more uncomfortable, goofy pavement ornaments that cannot be ridden anywhere.
Why bother posting stories like this?

His own creative expression? Maybe Russel fired him......... nono
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  		   Posted 10/26/2007 7:04 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I don't mind seeing a cool chopper now and then, but those bikes look like junk.
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  		   Posted 10/29/2007 11:10 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
To each his own, and all that; but these are neither my each nor my own.  I am not a chopper fan but do apprciate the craftsmanship and design occasionally.  These are just ugly, unflowing, childlike creations more fit for middle-school shop class, IMO.

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  		   Posted 10/31/2007 8:13 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
wow what a nut wrecker in an unexpected situation.
lemme see, first you rack your package and then impale your chest, neck, or face on the spikes...
reminds me of the nice lookin reverse scallops one guy put on his tank a whole bunch of years ago... hit an immovable object and neatly "scooped off" his entire package...
i think he sings for the san fransisco boys choir now. as a soprano.
i cant really dog these guys tho... they really do nice work. but i wont be buyin one...
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  		   Posted 11/3/2007 3:51 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Ah OK, are you supposed to ride it or look at it? In either case that bike has some serious issues and I don't see much of a market for it.
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  		   Posted 11/3/2007 6:40 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Those bikes look like something out of a comic book or a really bad movie. I would rather ride a beater bike than something like what they build.

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