Jonsson Posted July 15, 2014 Posted July 15, 2014 (edited) I present to you the turbocharged red light racer - Frenzy! When I saw the Lego-Set: 70724 containing the golden wheels I knew that I had to build a bike with them. With this build I wanted to broaden my previous styles a bit. This bike got a red frame, with black forks and swing arm to give it a bit more contrast than my earlier builds. I've been experimenting with a turbocharged bike for some time, but it has been hard to get it to look right. To get it to look realistic, I wanted all the tubing to be in the right place, and that was quite challenging to say the least... I'm also very keen to get the lines as clean a flowing as possible, I hope I was able to catch that feeling - of a sleek, fast-looking machine. :) The broad-angle V-Twin engine is placed in the frame with an slight offset to the right. This is necessary because I wanted to be able to get a clean look off the exhaust-manifold, turbo, down-pipe, pressure-tube and the intercooler. The second reason is that i wanted to keep the bike as narrow as possible with the (imagined) weight as close to the center for better handling. The tubing from the intercooler continues below the tank between the double frame all the way to the intake. I tried to be as realistic as possible! Im also quite happy with the front brake calipers. And I hope you approve of the little color/detail I added with the Green Cotton air-filter and oil-filter Cheers! Btw, You can also see this bike and my other ones on my Flickr: https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/107288644@N07/ Edited July 15, 2014 by Jonsson Quote
Kelkschiz Posted July 15, 2014 Posted July 15, 2014 Very sweet looking V-twin chopper you have there my friend. big fan of this type of cycle. very nice detailing. Quote
jantjeuh Posted July 15, 2014 Posted July 15, 2014 Very nice indeed. Could use a bit more chrome though Quote
darsedz Posted July 15, 2014 Posted July 15, 2014 incredibile bike... front brakes + suspension = WOW Lego should introduce some better mudguards for this wheels... maybe some thinner/wider wheels for bike too Quote
Jonsson Posted July 15, 2014 Author Posted July 15, 2014 (edited) Thank you for all the kind comments! Great that you like the details, I try to add details for the realism but not to many, I dont want the bikes to look over-done. I want them to look balanced. :) And I'm sorry to dissapoint you jantejeuh - but my bikes wont get any Chrome on them, not my cup of tea. ;) Besides - Bricksonwheels does that so good already, hard to compete with! Darsedz - you got a good point there, some additional wheels for variation would be nice, different styles and withds(spelling?). You got the ones from set 8420, but those are becoming really expensive...:/ And of course like you said, a part to use as fender, that doesnt look huge and out of place... Edited July 15, 2014 by Jonsson Quote
plew2000 Posted July 15, 2014 Posted July 15, 2014 Looks good, are the wheels from the HF set I think it was called Furnos fire bike? Quote
Jonsson Posted July 15, 2014 Author Posted July 15, 2014 Hi! The wheels are from this set: 70724 http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?S=70724-1 :) Quote
ManInATopHat Posted July 15, 2014 Posted July 15, 2014 Sweet bike! Such a nice sleek design, I love it! Quote
Jonsson Posted July 16, 2014 Author Posted July 16, 2014 (edited) Thank you all för your nice words! :) All comments, critic and thoughts are more than welcome! Edited July 18, 2014 by Jonsson Quote
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