Death ride!

[max wedge]

Here's a bike with razor baldes welded all over it. Ya gotta scroll down a bit to see it.death ride (http://www.armageddontopfuel.com/gallery/destruction.html)

[crewcutkid]

Stupid waste of a bike. Should be called the "Tetanus Special" or the "Bic Parade Float". Bet Gillette would pay big bucks for that ride.
-Crew

[Jeem]

I don't think very many bikes would be so sacred that things like this should not be done. Relax, it's all in good fun. Tim Conder is a stand up guy that can and does build some of the coolest shit out there. And yes, I think he is a bit demented to boot.

[Evel]

Ouch...



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The Seat
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I love Goth's

[Smokin Joe]

Like the old farts say, there's an ass for every seat.

[Flexicoker]

I agree the Conder is a great guy, I personally think the bike is kindof cool in a "what the hell" kind of way. He's also the guy building two '65 style top fuelers, one God and one satan. Cool guy, taught me how to make good reflections when drawing cars.

[ray]

i guess as art, it's no more of a waste of metal than some of the really ugly paintjobs that people put on ugly bikes that don't get ridden. it's interesting, i'd just hate to have to handle or work on it! full leather or kevlar bodysuit required! i'd like to see pics of him riding it, splitting lanes in traffic wearing jeans and a tee shirt! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

reminds me of a somber moment in denver last week coming home from a concert, late night saw a bike rider laying about 100 yards from his bike in the middle of the freeway, just as the first police got to the scene. scary. middle of the night, no traffic, plenty of wide open asphalt, who knows what happened?

interesting metal work, but only the truly deranged would try riding it. i'd have to think about it a while i guess.

[Flexicoker]

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i'd like to see pics of him riding it, splitting lanes in traffic wearing jeans and a tee shirt! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

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not quite jeans and a T, but here ya go...
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[OGNC]

Conder rules. End of story. He is an automotive artist for Christ's sake.

What, you would feel better if he were doing some Maplethorpe style photography?

[Slag Kustom]

wild looking but not to usefull http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[bradberry00]

good thing its a softtail!

[redpunk]

Ha, yeah.. What bradberry00 said about it being a softail.. Man, I really dont get that bike..

[Flexicoker]

He's also pretty damn funny, here's straight from his website, www.armageddontopfuel.com (http://www.armageddontopfuel.com)





Which brings up a funny story...

After all the free advise I've recieved from my fellow motorcyclists, I decided to build this little shovelhead. So pat yourselves on the back all you "sane" folks, and thanks for the inspiration......Ladies and gentlemen, the most dangerous chopper on earth, "RED SKIN".

VERY special thanks to my good friends Walter (above) and Sarah for loaning me Sarah's bike for this. It's all stock and returned safely home to them. (Sorry for wiring your starter backwards ya'll. You know better than to let me work on anything electric.)




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* 1400 stainless steel razor blades, mig welded edge up.
* 2 three pound boxes of nails for the seat and floorboards..

* 12 feet of barbed wire.

* Open chain primary.

* Suicide clutch.

* Tank shift with a REAL monkey skull!

* No front brake.

* Rigid struts made out of angle iron.

* Kick only.

* Photos by Stacey Basher.

* Wait...what IS that? Is that the riders SEVERED HAND ON THE SPEEDO???!!!!




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No it's okay, the nails keep ya from sliding back onto the razor blades....




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Ginny Rufner, a very talented artist here in Seattle, gave me this monkey skull. I think she said it was from Bangkok. What IS it about monkeys? Somethin' about 'em just says PAAARRTYYYY!!




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This thing was HARD to paint man. It's the front spool hub we borrowed off of my knuckle project. V-Twin sells these round spools in chrome, for all you chopper kids out there.




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OOOOOWWW!! I was so scared when I first rode this thing, I didn't have any spit.




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Go ahead, ya stupid dog...Hike yer leg on THIS! Ha! That's "Buster" our deaf shop dog. He'll party all day and all night. 'Cause he's like that.




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If you squint your eyes, you can see why Harley's are so f-i-n-e.....It's a girl laying on her side, the gas tanks are her shoulders, the seat is her waist, and the back fender is her hips......oooooooh baby, that is one sharp chick. Ow. Now that hurt.
Special note of significant importance: My friend Steve sat ALL DAY welding the blades on ONE tank. Then turned it over to a little russian fella named Arson, who sat still for 2 MORE DAYS, quietly, patiently unwrapping and tack welding razor blades in place. Word has it he was a journeyman BB stacker back in Vladivostok. MANY THANKS.




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The secret is.....Opollo Creed boxers, leathers, with Carharts over 'em. Intense concentratin' don't hurt neither. My nieghbors think I'm nuts. And good for them.




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WOW, it's hard to beat a great ride. Blastin' across the 520 bridge at about 70, the sun beamin' down on ya, the wind whistlin' through 1400 razor blades... GOSH.......no really, GEE WHIZ.




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This was outside the Seattle Roadster show. They wouldn't let me in so I lit it off outside and rode 'er home. I thought I'd give it hell gettin' on hiway 99, you know... kinda put on a show. I'm rippin' HARD up the off ramp, I get into traffic (a lot of it) and look down in horror at my left floorboard, which has come loose and is spraying the freeway with 300 nails! Yeah, I'll be paying off flat tire karma for the rest of my life.




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Could this be our DEVIL GIRL? I ain't tellin'. She did however, lay right down on those blades with nothing between her and them but some old rags. BAAAAAAAAD girl Siouxsie, F*** YEAH.

[scarylarry]

Dont look like no softail to me. Looks like an old FL. He has angle iron bolted in place of shocks?Insta-hardtail
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[The37Kid]

Reminds me of Steve Martin's short story "Cruel Shoes".

[HotRod60F100]

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Ouch...



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The Seat
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I love Goth's

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Whats with the corpse laying on the bike?and you gotta be snake shit crazy to ride that bike http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[HotRod60F100]

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good thing its a softtail!

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Oh JEEEEzus i never thought of that gawd dayyumn if it were a rigid man talk about the PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN

[Jkustom]

If you know tim, its not so shocking....That fuckers nuts!

[malaguena]

I just checked out his website and the guys simply awesome. Im not sure if I care for the razor blade bike, but those rails are killer.

[Tim]

ex soft tail?

"* Rigid struts made out of angle iron"

[Conder]

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Whats with the corpse laying on the bike?and you gotta be snake shit crazy to ride that bike http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/QUOTE]

Too funny! That chick'll eat you fer lunch sonny! That bike is my best friend Sarah's '79 FLH. She loaned it to me for two months so we could do this, then we changed it back...She still rides the @#$% hell out of it, and so did I.

[TexV2]

Part of me says that thing is pretty cool, from an artistic standpoint, and the other part says that is the assinine monstrosity I have ever seen.


It takes all kinds.

Tex

[praisethelowered]

All this tough/rebel/bad stuff is really boring . . . it's mall culture on a motorcycle.

When I see skulls/razor blades/crosses/barbed wire/knife/gun/ blood /whatever crap I instntly figure somebody is a consumer of images more than a producer of chaos. . .especially when "playing rebel" against a backdrop of real war and violence.

black ski masks still mean business though. . .

[cosmo]

Look at it this way:

You won't have any greasy kid fingerprints on the paint!!!:D

Cosmo

P.S. Most of you all are just jealous that you didn't think of it first!!

[lucky_1974]

Iron Butt Award...

[4t64rd]

I don't think very many bikes would be so sacred that things like this should not be done. Relax, it's all in good fun. Tim Conder is a stand up guy that can and does build some of the coolest shit out there. And yes, I think he is a bit demented to boot.

See signature below

[oldspeed]

[Sorry guys but that is a wasted piece of crap, what is the point of it (hahaha) is it so you can think that guy must be tough to ride that, horse shit. Maybe for shock value it could be called art but why go to the trouble of making it a runner.

[colorado51]

He's also pretty damn funny, here's straight from his website, [url="http://www.armageddontopfuel.com"]

Yea, I remember reading this about a year ago.

Didnt he also have a story about building a bike for some Hells Angles, and going to their club house to collect the money?

Pretty funny stuff!

[30roadster]

It's a built in anti-theft device.....very creative...art stirs emoptions...this is definately art.

[Conder]

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black ski masks still mean business though. . .[/QUOTE]

Yeah, when you're SKIING.

[Joe King]

[Sorry guys but that is a wasted piece of crap, what is the point of it (hahaha) is it so you can think that guy must be tough to ride that, horse shit. Maybe for shock value it could be called art but why go to the trouble of making it a runner.


Why go to all that trouble and not make it run...

[Conder]

All this tough/rebel/bad stuff is really boring . . . it's mall culture on a motorcycle.

When I see skulls/razor blades/crosses/barbed wire/knife/gun/ blood /whatever crap I instntly figure somebody is a consumer of images more than a producer of chaos. . .especially when "playing rebel" against a backdrop of real war and violence.

black ski masks still mean business though. . .

I totally agree with this guy. As long as he ain't talkin' about me. We built "REDSKIN" in the spring of 2000 in 4 days from a borrowed bike to make a point. Before the discovery channel shows. Before "Hot Topic" merchandise and reality TV.

I don't give a shit if you think I'm "cool" or "tough". I found out a while ago that "cool" is bullshit and "tough" is putting your family first and showing up to work on time.

The best thing about the razorblade bike wasn't that it was covered in razorblades. It absolutely terrified all of us. When it started going together I tried to see it as training for driving my fuelers. It had a foot clutch and no front brake, I'd be riding it in the city. When you ride any hardcore chopper it's not like a regular motorcycle. You don't just get on one of these things and have your own little parade. So there was that, and the fact it was covered in barbed wire, nails and razorblades. Controlling my panic reflexes was everything. I was scared of it.

When people saw it in person they completely shut down. I'd say, "please be careful those razors are real". Little kids would run at it. Adults would laugh nervously and then touch it, cut themselves and yell "what's WRONG with you!!??" Other bikers would puff up and strut around mumbling "crazy" or "stupid" under there breath. That motorcycle illustrated in glaring detail what a true chopper or hot rod used to say to mainstream society....FUCK YOU. It rustled when I kickstarted it. The thing just bristled with death. Real true death.

I rode it all over town for two months anywhere I felt like it. By the time we took it apart I was riding it to the grocery store like it was a Fat Boy.

True, street rods and motorcycles are fun hobbies that folks use to unwind. BUT... once in a while it never hurts to remind folks where they came from. - Friendliness, Tim

[Tony Bones]

Tim didn't build that bike recently. He built it well before the whole chopper thing took off again. He built it when it was actually just a little bit nuts to run a jockey bike w/ no front brake. Razor blades were bitchen' and mullets were...well, mullets were still past their time.

We're all desensitized now. Nothing shocks us anymore. Sad, really.

[Conder]

Tim didn't build that bike recently. He built it well before the whole chopper thing took off again. He built it when it was actually just a little bit nuts to run a jockey bike w/ no front brake. Razor blades were bitchen' and mullets were...well, mullets were still past their time.

We're all desensitized now. Nothing shocks us anymore. Sad, really.

HEEEY, don't take mullets for granted! With one of those you can have a flat top, a D.A., a little crewcut, and depending on your mood, a waterfall or a ponytail all at the same time! Mullets shock me Tony, they do...

[palepainter]

Godamn ...that is crazy. If it was painted. I would pity the fool who had to prep it.

Mike