SKELETON MOTORCYCLE

This motorcycle 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.

Straight out of hell or straight out of Hollywood this bike has a 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.

The tyre on the back is reminiscent of a car tyre 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. A bike like this would just have to be as loud as possible.

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 Angel MC ' biker would look more than at home on !

Seeing this in your rear view mirror might make you look twice I would have thought ! 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.

The Bonebike 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 Bonebike 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.

Below is a photo of John Holt, who actually names his Bonebike as " Iron Death "

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 isn't padded, in 2006 Holt rode it to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota and won third place in the "Rat's Hole" competition. He also displayed it at the 2006 Biketoberfest in Daytona Beach, Florida and at the Motor Show in Essen, Germany, the European equivalent of the Detroit Auto Show.

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It appears like there are other custom bikes like this on the scene, the ones pictured below are from a guy call John Farr who works for some place called cryptcycles.com in the USA.

There is some nice chrome mixed in there.

This bike looks like its heading straight for hell, or out of it !

Makin no bones about it !

I bet this bike isn't no bone shaker either, its looks quite comfortable and low slung.

Enough to make your eyes light up I should think !