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American Motorcycles 300 Front Tire Movie Chopper

By Paul Crowe

Headhunter 300 front tire chopperYou’ve put the 300 rear tire on and you still want more? Got a deal on big rubber so you bought two but you only have one bike? Well, American Motorcycles has your answer, mount one of those big guys up front. They built a chopper called “Headhunter” for an upcoming movie called The Ironhorsemen, sporting a Revtech 110 horsepower engine, six speed right side transmission and two size 300 Avon tires.

Handling? We’re not talking handling, we’re talking tires! Hmm …

American Motorcycles Headhunter

Posted on February 2, 2006 Filed Under: Motorcycle Builders, Motorcycle Design

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Comments

  1. doug says

    February 2, 2006 at 10:47 am

    put on knobbie tires of that size and hit the beach

  2. aaron says

    February 2, 2006 at 3:18 pm

    or put on a 150ci twin, a 9 speed gearbox, colour changing paint, and a t-shirt that says “i’m well endowed. why doesn’t anyone belive me?”

  3. todd says

    February 2, 2006 at 8:34 pm

    for some reason it reminds me of a Rokon or a ToteGoat…
    -todd

  4. Jeff Rittter says

    February 3, 2006 at 4:00 am

    HIDEOUS!!! Keep the fat tires at the rear! I feel sick looking at that thing!!

  5. hoyt says

    February 3, 2006 at 1:14 pm

    Aaron,

    thanks for the chuckle…I think you are on to something with the “compensating” t-shirt.

  6. sfan says

    February 7, 2006 at 6:24 am

    Has anyone heard of experiments with comparatively fat tires on high performance bikes (300’s may be excessive)? If so, what were the results & trade-offs?

    I remember in the 80’s a flirtation with small diameter fronts, reputed to provide better turn in. I am wondering if, with the right fork geometry and all other things equal, a fat front should give proportionately better turning and braking traction. Rubber footprint is critical to car performance; is form-bias, rather than function, holding back the motorcycle world?

  7. rocketmonkey says

    February 16, 2009 at 10:51 pm

    bikes turn different than cars wider tire = less lean angle and thus less handeling look at sport bike tires relitively wide but verry round, tread dang near all the way to the rim

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