Geeks and Gearheads Unite: A Photo Gallery of the Intel / Orange County Choppers Bike

What happens when you merge the technological wizardry of Intel and the custom bike-building prowess of the Teutul brothers? You get this beastly creation: a chopper that boasts a 250 horsepower V-Quad engine, massive 240mm front and 300mm rear tires, and a ruggedized, fully functioning PC that manages gauges, GPS, infotainment, wireless internet, and Bluetooth functions. The computerized system, built in conjunction with Black Diamond, operates through a touchscreen and a QWERTY keyboard, and will even start the motorcycle using fingerprint recognition technology, eliminating the need for a key.

The V-Quad powerplant celebrates the Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series, and was built by Nelson Engineering. It features two conjoined V-Twins, and required one powerplant to be reversed in orientation and configured to fire in the opposite direction, a new bottom end to be built, and the two engines to be seamlessly mated together... piece o' cake, huh? Because the its computer uses a low power Dual-Core processor, a token Quad-Core chip was placed inside the gas cap.

The bike was built to celebrate Intel's 30 year history in embedded computing, which describes any non-desktop, laptop, or mainframe computer application such as ATMs, point of sale devices, and medical applications.

For a photo gallery of the Intel Chopper, click here.