CNC Plasma-Cut Vintage Bike Replicas

[Bloodknot]

Update: I just completed my 17th vintage bike plasma cutout - a 1949 Panther Model 100, 600cc.

So slow revving that they were said to fire at every telegraph pole

 

[Plasmaman]

So slow revving that they were said to fire at every telegraph pole

At 23 h.p. they were not speed demons! Good torque though.

 

[Bloodknot]

At 23 h.p. they were not speed demons! Good torque though.

Which is why they were often seen with a chair on the side, I guess.

 

[Plasmaman]

Stable of 6" laser cut bikes:

 

[Greyfell]

Very cool, and nice library.

 

[Plasmaman]

CNC Plasma Cutout of Sonny Routt's double Triumph Engine Drag Bike

 

[JerryP]

I think there was a guy named Tom Christianson running twin engine Triumph bikes back in early 1960's at Union Grove Dragstrip in WI. At the time I was running a '36 Ford with Olds V-8. A cool story about this guy was that a cager cut him off making a left turn in front of him and he did a low side drop and climbed on the side of the Triumph as it slid to a stop and somehow avoided getting hurt. Like to think that story was true.

 

[Vector]

I think there was a guy named Tom Christianson running twin engine Triumph bikes back in early 1960's at Union Grove Dragstrip in WI. At the time I was running a '36 Ford with Olds V-8. A cool story about this guy was that a cager cut him off making a left turn in front of him and he did a low side drop and climbed on the side of the Triumph as it slid to a stop and somehow avoided getting hurt. Like to think that story was true.

I assume it is true. I did the same on a Suzuki GT550 back in 1973.

 

[OldRider48]

CNC Plasma Cutout of Sonny Routt's double Triumph Engine Drag Bike

Really nice art piece of an amazing bike! How well I remember it!

Sonny Routt's Dragster | Cycle World | SEPTEMBER 1967

magazine.cycleworld.com

 

[grandpaul]

A cool story about this guy was that a cager cut him off making a left turn in front of him and he did a low side drop and climbed on the side of the Triumph as it slid to a stop and somehow avoided getting hurt. Like to think that story was true.

The story could well have been true, and could have ended differently. I should know, I was "surfing" my Kawasaki 400 until something (probably the centerstand) caught and then the bike "surfed" ME for the last few feet. Lots of pepperoni was the result.

 

[Vector]

Ouch

 

[Plasmaman]

We've all heard of the Norvin - here's a Triumphvin:

 

[Plasmaman]

One of the benefits of CNC plasma cutting is that we can let our imaginations run wild.

Hayabusa engine with twin S&S carbs in a Norton Commando: