Goodness, I really dig this stuff.
Yes, it’s a 2002 KTM 520, chopped like mad by some crazy dude named Paul. It weighs 220 pounds/100 Kilograms. You can read about it on one cool freaking blog called Attack Choppers.
Bird, the dude that runs the blog, has a great manifesto that starts, “I do not accept the assumption that a rigid framed motorcycle cannot go fast, stop quickly, or handle well.” He also writes that his site is not about bikes with long front ends, slow bikes, bikes with wide, fat tires, bikes that can’t turn, or show bikes.
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