Mountain Bike meets Motor Bike
November 29, 2007 - Alan Dowds
Mountain bike fan adds a KX85 motor to a bespoke downhill mountain bike chassis - with impressive results ... Scroll down for the full story
Someone has sent us a link to this thread on the Apriliaforum website (www.apriliaforum.com), and it's well worth a look. A pair of Industrial Design students from Colorado have taken components from the downhill mountain bike world, added their own bespoke frame and swingarm, then fitted a Kawasaki KX85 engine.
Sounds crazy? Well, it probably is, but it looks like a barrel of laughs. Check the video here, or below, and the full forum thread, with tech specs and full build breakdown is here.
And we've got our own 'thread about a thread' here. Mental!
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