50% Hayabusa + 50% Harley = 100% Confusion
Like chocolate and Red Bull, peanut butter and bacon, or milk and vodka, some mixtures just don't register. Take, for instance, Tricky Air & Billet's "Barley," a custom creation which was first publicized at the Cyril Huze blog. This extreme mixed metaphor throws a Harley EVO V-twin into a Maximum Motorcycles frame and surrounds it with Suzuki Hayabusa-inspired bodywork-- which either delights a sliver of the population or confounds the majority, depending on how you look at it.
Mr. Huze suggests that the bike's objective is to "introduce the V-Twin market to the urban styling of the aftermarket design of the Suzuki Hayabusa," but it's my humble opinion that the Barley is simply the inevitable product (or, if your glass is half-empty, by-product) of decades of motorcycle evolution. While oddball custom creations like this are as unpredictable as anything, Tricky Air & Billet sees enough of a future in the Barley to have announced the production of the custom carbon fiber gas tank and rear tail sections.
Would you want the Barley in your garage, or is this your idea of a moto-nightmare?
Comments
Looks like the Confederate Hellcat, so nothing new.
I like the Hellcat and do not like this at all. This is clearly just a rolling mock up – no drive train, foot pegs, etc. – so I wonder what the real thing will look like.
Just another custom piece of crap for the biker who doesn’t ride…
This isn’t quite what I meant when I said Harley needed to expand it’t line to appeal to the younger generation of riders.
Man, I am glad that I’m on my way out. These idiots are going to be running the country some day. Just a pile of cobbled up crap. Except for the motor of course.
OMG! That is fence post ugly!!
Perhaps the concept of “cross-over” should be left to the automotive world……
Another freak….like a two-headed snake.
two headed snake as in one head at either end?
If it were at least the VRod Revolution engine then maybe….
I’d prefer a Busa engine on a VRod… Then we would be speaking…
Why build a fast bike with a slug of a motor?
I think it looks cool. Yeah you can tell its a mock up but I think it would be awesome to run around town.