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i would ride i ive made and driven more scary redneck inventions than that
It looks like it had a bad reaction to a bee sting or has gain a couple holiday pounds.
Damn!!!!! This is a “Jupiter” or “Planet 5″…. It’s a russian motorcycle -just the body, the mods aren’t-. It use to has the worst gearbox ever made, but the one in the picture is not the original engine…
This is probably the ugliest motorcycle in the whole world
More info after the jump
http://www.autosoviet.altervista.org/ENGLISH-automotorusse9Moto%28izh%29.htm
That looks like a Russian IMZ motorcycle, so this must be Ivan’s homemade bog bike or swamper…doesn’t look like it has brakes, though the innertube tires probably slow the thing down a bit.
That was an IZh motorcycle (I don’t think you can pronounce this – eesh with voiced sh?). It was probably redesigned to ride or rather crawl through Siberian permafrost during summer when it turns into mud of truly epic capabilities (it swalows trucks whole).
Of course, with it being tubes, it also could be someone playing the part of “Crazy Ivan” to the point of trying to ride it on water……. which would only last until the engine hit the water, unless a grade-schooler was riding it.
or fifty Lilliputians!
If he sealed the engine compartment (with a snorkel for intake and exhaust) it might work… Anyway, isn’t the point of the pontires (made up word) to keep that from happening?
Surely there’s enough floatation in those tyres to keep the lightweight shell of an ex-bike plus it’s rider sufficiently afloat that the engine stays out of the water? If the midline of the axle goes under you’re not going to get a great deal of drive anyway.
Plus if it’s anything like my own, similarly basic and primitive (1970s if not older) frame-type bike, the air intake is above the engine, near the rider’s thighs, so there’s a minimal manifold length between the filter and the carburettor (also on the top, right by the gravity-fed fuel line)
probably inspired by this Russian fellow
I want one.
In the Alaska’s Arctic they have tundra vehicles called Catco’s that use low pressure balloon tires called “air bags” that are turned by a drive wheel on top, the idea being that if it slips, the wheels won’t spin and destroy tundra. Maybe this is a poor-mans version of that. Check out this vid.
It’s like there’s a little Pillsbury Doughboy in each tyre.
Or they turned the Michelin man into a couple of tires…
I want to know what’s keeping the front tire from swaying left to right and scraping the frame, causing an abrupt, yet hilarious stop, in which inertia would take over and the whole bike flipping frontwards.
One presumes that rather hacked-together-looking hub is solid in the middle, and the axle is split. That or there’s some other method of locating it on the axle, like grooves lathed into it that the hub somehow rests on. Or it might just be all one badly machined/welded part.
Besides given the width of the modified forks and the sheer bounciness of the tyre, plus the softness of the ground/water it’s meant to be ridden on (presumably you have to go a lot slower on grass or ashphalt…) I don’t think a bit of rubbing would cause much trouble anyway.
Plus — having just double checked the picture – note that the hollow tubes that are part of the hub through which the axle runs are WIDER than the tyre. So before it got far enough sideways to rub, they’d already hit the forks and stopped it.
This is a Russian Swamp bike, they use the in far east Russia, where a regular bike would just dig in to the mossy bogs.
here is a commercial model http://archive.izhmoto.ru/eng/special_samson
Hi,
anybody who wants to experience this, are allways welcome by visiting Lithuania in winter sezon, lets say in January/February 
I see you don’t know true purpose for that “beast”, this invention as made in Lithuania, allways used old russian bike, cause its cheap, some big tractors “tires” (inside of tires, dunno the acctual english word for that one). this thing is used to drive on iced sea, eliminating the fear to drawn in ice cold water, also, when you have to go up to 10 miles for winter fishing, this comes very handy. in Lithuania they are called “Schumacher’s” because, of speed on the ice (compared to the foot offcourse). Was this one made in Lithuania? dunno, but they are very comfortable and useful in winter, believe me
We call them inner tubes. I undertsood every word of your post. Well done!
Bob: Hey wanna go tubing?
Jill: Yeah! *runs inside & puts on stylish new swimsuit*
Jill: *running out with towel* Let’s g—-Oh. Um…
Here in Estonia these things are also used by fishermen in wintertime on big lakes. Its unsinkable bike. Its told that if ice is thick enough to carry a crow its also enough to carry this kind of bike. Its mostly made by russians and called karakat or karakatitsa.
Old junk motorcycle: Check
Too much free time: Check
Mom and Dad are related: Check
Baddest ride at the swamp fair: OHHHHH YEAHHHHH
Bob never outgrew his love for Big Wheels.
shit, i would pay to ride that.
you and me both, man. split the fare?
though a jetski is probably better
I like the way they’ve tied a load of waistbelts haphazardly around the bare tubes in order to give some semblence of tread for grip’s sake, and to prevent a puncture becoming TOO big of a blowout…
John Freeman would be proud.
Motorcycle with pillow tires? I would pay to get RUN OVER by it.
I give you… the Michellin-cycle!
You could cross the Atlantic on that thing!
They ride similar things in Estonia at Peipsi Lake also cars with tyres like this