Comments on: Hammarhead Industries: Minimalist Customs (News)

By: clasqm

clasqm — Tue, 29 May 2012 08:10:22 +0000

How are they going to do that, with every computer component in a 100 mile radius melted into slag?

Hmmm, looks like they will have to do a steampunk remake of Mad Max on 1920s Brough Superiors … Doesn’t sound like those Kawa Z1′s in the original film would make it through the EMP.

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By: bmidd

bmidd — Mon, 28 May 2012 15:11:47 +0000

@Gabe, an electrical ground doesn’t always have to be the “Ground”. It can be any conductor that is able to absorb a large amount of current. The ground is an escape route for a surge in power that would fry the electrical components. In a plane, the body and frame are the grounds. The frame also protects occupants from a lightning strike.
They had all this figured out before this guy started making ugly motorcycles.

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By: todd

todd — Sun, 27 May 2012 03:34:13 +0000

yeah but that horse puts out around 1000 lb-ft of torque…

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By: Fred M.

Fred M. — Sat, 26 May 2012 08:49:04 +0000

A bone-stock Ural Solo-X makes 40hp. I know, because I have one and I rack up the miles on it. I commute to work round trip 70 miles. I took it on some trails yesterday on the way home from work.

The KLR is ugly, vibrates too much, makes less horsepower, and works less well on the road. I’d rather have the Ural any day.

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By: zuki

zuki — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:13:49 +0000

The old MX bike would be fine too unless it has some sort of electronic points system that would be vulnerable to a strong electromagnetic pulse. Like Don mentioned above, if any of our vehicles were close enough to really get blasted by an EMP pulse, there would be a lot more to worry about – if even still alive!

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By: Kagato

Kagato — Thu, 24 May 2012 19:36:24 +0000

That does look weird–I think she settles down a bit with some weight on her. She’s up on the centerstand too, which is going to make the rear wheel drop some.

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By: HalfBaked

HalfBaked — Thu, 24 May 2012 19:21:24 +0000

I like this Ural and the other bikes from this shop but I never realized how much the Hammarhead guy resembles the Unibomber. In answer to Gabe’s questions airplane are grounded into the metal frame of fuselage but than you knew that already didn’t you.

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By: Fred M.

Fred M. — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:17:19 +0000

The original BMW R71, which Ural copied, made 22hp. The later BMW R75, with overhead valves (more like the modern Urals), made 26hp. The modern Urals make 40hp.

I love my Ural Solo sT, despite owning bikes that make two or three times as much horsepower.

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By: mickey

mickey — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:08:03 +0000

Guys that have Urals seem to love them although I can’t understand loving an even lower horsepower copy of an almost equally low horsepower original. Especially one with an even sparser dealer network than the originals sparse network.Some people just hear a different drummer.

Personally, I’d rather have the Trumpet desert sled.

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By: Fred M.

Fred M. — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:59:34 +0000

“What are you people THINKING!!!”

Probably that limited production, custom motorcycles are more desirable to many buyers than ugly, plastic-clad, mass-market eyesores like the KLR650.

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