Odd rod: strange bobber pickup

[Jonny69]

Not everyone's cup of tea, but what's everyone's opinion on this radical bobber pickup?

It's air bagged all round, all engine accessories are hidden as is the cooling system which is plumbed in through the core plugs and pumped round by an electric pump. Lights are mounted in the cowl.

I like the concept but I don't like the execution

 

[Pulse]

looks too easy to just break one of the cables, plus... wooden seats? sod that!

 

[Glaucus]

That is freaking awesome apart from the wooden bench. Personally I would have had a bit more detail on the engine. Maybe using some performance part covers. Just to break it up a little.

 

[Matt82]

first thing that came into my head when i saw that was WOW

 

[McLovin]

Looks too much like an overgrown plastic toy. It needs the piping and the braided pipes etc. And chrome. It needs chrome.

 

[4T5]

I'm not happy with that at all Just about Everything looks wrong. Roof is to high, wheels look dodgey, engine placement sucks, engine visually looks crap, wooden bench seats
I usually love stripped out low slung oldys but that fails

 

[PardonTheWait]

I'm of the same opinion as you really Jonny. A good idea badly done. I like rods to be more on the dirty side too which is probably a lot of the reason it doesn't appeal, it looks too clean and new and I don't really go for that so much. Looks too modern!

Looks like they're aiming at a similar target to Exile Bikes with the simplicity, and hiding everything that can be hidden for a super clean look, but imo the Exiles REALLY work, and that doesn't. Because Exile bikes look tough still, and the pickup doesn't look hard at all.

 

[Appelhanns]

That bike is awesomeness!!

 

["andy"]

i love it but id probably love any clean car in that colour

 

[Clarkey]

nah I don't like it at all.

 

[ScoobyDoo69]

Looks kinda fake, but I do like it.

 

[Glaucus]

Looks kinda fake, but I do like it.

Yeah, it's because it's hid far to many details. The engine should look a lot nicer than that, if it had some details on it. Same with the rest of it. A few details would go along way.

 

[Mattius]

small amount of simplifying is good, that just llooks boring to me, i like cables and wires everywhere

 

[georges]

What's air suspension like? Quite bouncy or is it damped?

Also, on that bike, how do you do both brakes and the throttle?

 

[Mooron455]

lol, thats awesome, but wooden seats, ouch

 

[Ben M]

Looks too much like an overgrown plastic

exactly what I thought.

 

[Nitro_Junkie]

I don't feel that, its channeled too much (now there's summat I don't say very often) but it looks out of proportion to me, or maybe it needs more lopping out of the roof to bring it back to scale? the doors need extending down to the sills too

also it appears to be a bit era confused; down n dirty, fender wall headers, drop tube axle but weld draglite wheels and stretched drag radials on the back doesn't tie in for me

the idea is good, put a bed on it and change a few things, would work then

 

[Duke]

Crazy (in a good way)