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This motorcycle seen above is a work of art, the entire frame of the bike has been expertly converted into a human skeleton form. The front forks of the bike are the arms of the skeleton and its hands are the wheel hubs. With no obvious speedometer or lights of any description this bike may not be street legal...but who cares right!
Straight out of hell or straight out of Hollywood
this bike has a gut busting 2.3 liter Ford engine with a variable flow
hydraulic drive, hammer forged 16 gauge cold rolled steel skeleton
shell. It Weighs 850 lbs and has a top speed of 90 - 95 mph.
It looks very sleek and would raise
a few eyebrows cruising down main street. If it were my bike I would
paint the bones up in white enamel for better aesthetical appearance.
I would wear a devil costume with horns coming out of my lid too.
The tire on the back is reminiscent of a car tire
which in all probability it actually is. The stack exhaust pipes
sticking out of the right side might be a bit intoxicating for the rider
too and I would guess that its not equipped with any noise bafflers or
silencers...well hopefully!
A bike like this would just have to be as loud as
possible...and then some, yeah!
There does not appear to be a chain around the
rear drive cog which could indicate that the bike was still under
construction when these photos were taken. Also there are no obvious
brake cables or any electric cables. Overall though a really nice
and extraordinary motorbike that any self respecting Hells
Angels MC biker would look more than at home on!
Seeing this bone bike in your rear view mirror
might make you look twice. The perfect way to travel to any
Halloween party though and a whole lot of fun too, especially if the
rider was to wear some devilish looking leathers. Maybe get some
speakers rigged up and play some heavy metal.
The Bone bike was created by John Holt in
2004-5 who was then about 37 years old, a self taught metal worker
who, in 1995 actually designed and made medieval style suits
of armor that were sold at Sotheby's auction house in New York City.
The virtually all handmade Bone bike was built in his basement shop
in Boone County, Illinois, USA. The skeleton would actually be 9
feet, 2 inches tall if it stood upright.
The skeleton has a giant skull in front
with one headlight in each eye socket, and 32 teeth in its awesome
jaws. This is the first motorcycle that Holt has built, and it took
him just under 2 years to make, fashioning it after a plastic model
of a skeleton bought at a hobby shop.
Although the seat wasn't padded, in 2006
Holt rode it to the Sturgis Motorcycle rally in South Dakota and won
third place in the Rats Hole competition. He also
displayed it at the 2006. Bikerfest in Daytona beach, Florida.
Also at the Motor Show in Essen, Germany...the European equivalent
of the Detroit Auto Show. It appears that there are other
custom bikes like this one on the scene, the Skeleton bike seen
below is from a guy called John Farr, who works for
Cryptocycles.com in the USA.
Sure is some nice chrome plating on there as
well!
This bike looks like its heading straight for hell, or out of it!
Yeah and making no
bones about it, this bike sure going to make your eyes light up.
There are actually quite a few bikes in
the world that are designed to look like a skeleton, this bone bike
below also qualifies and it looks quite cool...
...the handlebars are horns growing out of
the skull, its also holding a lantern in its mouth that doubles as a
headlight. Another interesting feature is that the skeleton has a
spiny tail that acts as a fender. My respects to the inventor of
this bike its great! Please contact me for credits etc. Its only a
matter of time before American Chopper guys @ OCC make
one of these!
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