Some of you are familiar with AMC’s “The Walking Dead” tv series with all episodes describing a post apocalyptic in which a band of survivors find themselves on the road, surviving day to day and trying to hold on to their shredded humanity and dwindling hope. Stripped of security and without a direction for the future, some of the group near their breaking point, some find themselves hardened and cold and some just try to grasp on to what little they have left.
Classified Moto a small custom shop located in Richmond, Virginia was commissioned by the show to build a pair of identical post-apocalyptic motorcycles to replace tv character Daryl Dixon’s lost chopper. The survivor bike is based on the 1992 Honda CB750 Nighthawk. It features front end from a Yamaha YZF-R6, including the wheel and brakes, a stock Nighthawk rear wheel, smooth-riding Progressive Suspension 970 piggyback shocks, Kenda Big Block tires, a custom leather seat and a distressed finish befitting a ride from a post-apocalyptic world.
DONOR: 1992 Honda CB750 Nighthawk
FRONT END: Yamaha YZF-R6
FRONT WHEEL: Yamaha YZF-R6
FRONT BRAKES: Yamaha YZF-R6
REAR WHEEL: Stock Nighthawk
TIRES: Kenda Big Block
SHOCKS: Progressive Suspension 970 piggybacks
TANK: XS650 reproduction
BARS: SE CR Hi
INTAKE: Twin billet aluminum mesh units CNC milled by Seth Ingham
EXHAUST: Modified stock with custom baffles
SEAT: Leather, custom upholstered by Roy Baird, Richmond, VA
BATTERY: Shorai Lithium Ion
CHAIN: DID X-ring
RACK: Custom crossbow mount
Would be a winner in the Rat’s Hole Show!
It costs a lot of money to look so cheap.
I like how they make it sound like a Harley in the show. Seems like movie and show editors do that a lot. To see a good video of the building of this bike; check out the link below.
http://www.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/videos/daryls-new-bike-the-walking-dead
“surviving day to day . . . just try to grasp on to what little they have left” and scrounge some top-quality parts to fix up the YamaHonda.
Gotta love Hollywood. Neat bike!
…phony kickstarter.
Nice … Looks very rideable …
D.D.
Yes Drank Fracman, not everything on TV is completely real. Now go back to enjoying the Real Housewives of Whatever and let the guys who actually ride motorcycles enjoy the article.
More nostalgia, i think.
Retirement of a Tote-goat…. or along those lines.
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Recalls bikes in 1981 film Road Warrior.
+I wouldn’t be caught dead riding that thing. (Ba-dump-bump. I’m here all week…)
Ride on.
Roadkill
Don’t care much for the show. Care even less for the bike . And if you’re gonna make a prop bike sound like a V-Twin in the filming … have it be a V-Twin .
I mean seriously … why did the producers decide to fake a V-Twin sound when these old Honda fours uncorked sound like the very gates of Hades opening up to the final apocalypse itself ?
Cyril. Thanks. I think I may have a need. For well.
S P E E D.
Hey. Not to worry. Um just looking for a decacent. Bike. Lighten. Up. OK. Just don’t try to bullshit. Me. Or. Sell me a pile of. Crap. That won’t get out of its own way.
Pile of junk
Mad max, apocalyptic, rat style
It is what it is & somebody paid for it