Switch Editions? Copy Share URL. Channel: OddBike. X Are you the publisher? Claim or contact us about this channel. Remove ADS. Viewing all articles. Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page Last Page. Browse latest View live. For a motorcycle to meet my criteria and be featured in one of my articles it must be weird, cool, and most importantly something exceptional that few have bothered to cover in any great detail.
So when I got an unsolicited email from a kind fellow by the name of David Morales with pictures of a modified-beyond-recognition Honda Z50A monkeybike, I knew I had found my next contribution to Pipeburn and a custom machine that would be worthy of the OddBike designation.
Behold — the 50 Magnum. Read the rest on Pipeburn. Nothing is quite as technologically impressive and magnificently superfluous as stuffing far more cylinders than are necessary to do the job into a contraption that is far too small to properly accommodate them. You can easily attain the power you need with a far simpler and lighter four.
Most people are familiar with the Honda CBX, and perhaps the Benelli Sei that preceded it as the first six-cylinder production machine.
These flagship models book ended the s, a heady time when progress in motorcycle design began to accelerate towards modernity with a series of impressively over-engineered rides that would become the genesis of a new era of performance and complexity.
