VW Motorcycle

Bugz · « **on:** November 29, 2004, 05:24:28 PM »

Thought I would share this with everyone. I came across it while surfing the web today. Y'all might have heard of this type of thing before but I hadn't and I couldn't believe it when I saw the picture.
This was on Yahoo at http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/vwmotorcycles/
Looks like it has a sidecar attached to it too. :bounce:

Ret.Bugtech · « **Reply #1 on:** November 30, 2004, 08:55:42 AM »

I have seen this before. This looks like one of those Chinese knock-off of a R series BMWs that someone converted to VW. If my mind serves me right, there was a company in Calif. that converted real BMWs using 1200 40hp,1300 50hp, 1500 53hp engines on regular basis a number of years ago. I rode one of these bikes with a 1300 50 hp and they were really nice and smooth with gobs and gobs of torque. It didn`t handle any different than the stock 2 cly . These bikes show up on e-bay once in a while. I would own one now if I wasn`t to "chickin" to get on a bike anymore. They were real freeway bikes, but I don`t think they would handle the "crotch rockets" of today

Zen · « **Reply #2 on:** November 30, 2004, 06:07:43 PM »

Somewhere I've got a couple of pictures of a custom built VW powered bike that was at Circle Yer Wagens a couple of years ago. I believe it was powered by a 1700 type 4 engine bolted to an IRS type 1 transaxle. One of the output flanges was locked down and the other one had a sproket bolted on it where the CV joint would normally bolt. The engine was completely stripped of it's cooling tin but it supposedly didn't have a problem with overheating. It also seems like someone told me the guy who built it was a gunsmith who specilized in making high end custom shotguns. The frame was hand made from the same stock he used for shotgun barrels. I'll post the pictures of it as soon as I find them. I don't know how practical it was, but it sure looked wicked! :twisted:

vwherb · « **Reply #3 on:** December 01, 2004, 07:28:48 AM »

I think it was the same motorcycles and were at CYW this past October. They were awsome looking bikes.

« **Reply #4 on:** December 02, 2004, 11:38:09 PM »

Heres the one from Sevierville from a few years back.

Zen · « **Reply #5 on:** December 03, 2004, 07:09:14 AM »

Yep, that's the one I was talking 'bout! Thanks Andy. I still haven't found my pictures of it.

Bugz · « **Reply #6 on:** December 03, 2004, 05:32:42 PM »

I wonder if anyone has ever tried to put a VW engine on a snowmobile? I know they've been adapted for planes and boats. What other adaptations does anyone know of?

Anthony · « **Reply #7 on:** December 04, 2004, 06:18:06 AM »

Wow, on the second bike, you could adjust the carbs while riding down the road! Many years ago, Hot VWs did a feature on a company that built snowmobiles for ski resorts using front-mounted type I engines. They were the large, enclosed-cockpit kind, though. Not the ride-on type. Surely somebody's tried it!

Zen · « **Reply #8 on:** December 04, 2004, 10:51:05 AM »

The VW farm tractor that's always at Circle Yer Wagens is pretty cool too. Those were commercially built for a few years.

Zen · « **Reply #9 on:** December 04, 2004, 06:57:04 PM »

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4509324516&category=6025&sspagename=WDVW

Bugz · « **Reply #10 on:** December 06, 2004, 07:26:37 AM »

Dang, $4000 ain't much for a near-museum quality antique with a VW engine!

« **Reply #11 on:** December 15, 2004, 02:09:17 AM »

Dad was telling me about that first bike. I want one so bad I can taste it. It's on my list of two wheeled death machines to buy in my life time.

Bugz · « **Reply #12 on:** December 23, 2004, 01:14:14 PM »

How about this vw mini chopper. I found it on thesamba.com. The guy built it with VW parts but it has a 5hp Briggs engine. Still pretty cool though.

« **Reply #13 on:** January 12, 2005, 02:17:23 PM »

Oh man... I have to clean my keys now, I just drooled all over them.

I'd just want a little more than 5 horses, that's all.

« **Reply #14 on:** January 12, 2005, 09:29:46 PM »

Wait a tic, what exactly is VW on that bike if it doesn't have a VW engine? All of that metal could have come from Lowes.

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