When I was contacted by Charlie Giordano, owner of Von Braun Precision Exhaust, a 2-year old company specializing in high end exhaust mufflers for Harley-Davidson touring motorcycles (that you can also fit on other bikes via slip-fit adapters), he was somewhat surprised when I told him that I never heard about his company or products. A custom bike being one sure way to build brand notoriety and image, he built this custom Honda VT1100, hoping that it will tease you emough to make you jump to his website to discover his very radical touring mufflers.
Named “John Henry”, a tribute to the famous builder of railroads, this custom VT1100 Honda is described by Charlie as an exercise in returning what he considers a quintessential yuppie-biker motorcycle “to the voodoo of riding: emotions, reactions, and responses that only seem to exist when riding.” For this purpose, he got rid of a truckload of non necessary factory parts stating that he wanted to “liberate the rider from superfluous distractions.” Most customization hours were spent on jeweling aluminum body pieces, Charlie adding a right-side Hurst jockey shifter for changing gears, a horn from a 1927 Studebaker and a frame mounted “elixir” bottle with petcock & fuel line. Just to add some fun, history and character to his Japanese contraption. The mufflers? Now you know they are from Von Braun Precision Exhaust
Son of gun…this thing should looks like it would rocket down the road.
Some nice pipes on Von Braun’s site to.
Boss Hawg
Nice. A little bit too fat lines for my taste.
Great bike, but too many bottles on it! To be simplified.
Very wild mufflers on their website.
Like everything but the back of the saddle.
Ditto Seven. Looks like a big fat tongue.
Would like to try this one on the Bonneville Salts.
Manufacturers continue to put their brand name in big letters on their products? Why? Big ego? A reason why I don’t buy such parts.
reminds me of the motorcycle on a Lucasarts Computer game called Full Thottle with all those mufflers. otherwise very interesting!
Everything looks great, except for the back!
I usually do not make negative comments about various designs, styles; and generly not a “custom” fan. However, in this case I am making an exception. I feel that there is nothing appealing about this bike.
Richard stated exactly the way I feel about this bike- but in much nicer words than I would have used.
The incorrect answer to a question that should never have been asked.
An exericse in excess, but again, it’s his $$$$…..
I’ve seen the products here & there, never heard one live, but very interesting on their site.
Crazy platform to use a metric, but it at least looks like it’ll run like a scalded dog.
take to the salt & let us know what it does
YAWN
My favorite part on that bike is the number plane. One of a Kind!
WTF is that?? Just ugly & kind of silly too.
Like it.
Yeah, but isn’t it still a Honda?
The Honda, just ok. The mufflers, better.
They sell Harley touring mufflers and build a custom Honda. Go figure…
Not my style but I appreciate the work done.
Too many extras covering up the cool bike underneath, but to each his own. Props to the builder for putting it together.
Comprehensively unattractive. Everything about it reeks of stupidity. The seat looks like a bedpan