 Kimi Raikonnen recieves new custom-built chopper
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 New Formula 1 world champion Kimi Raikonnen has just taken delivery of a custom-built chopper. The motorcycle, which is named Iceman II, was made by the German firm Walz Hardcore Choppers, who also built Raikonnen his first motorcycle.
The latest motorcycle is Ferrari red to commemorate his championship-winning
machine from this year, while the first motorcycle he recieved was black to match his old McLaren car.
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Wow...clipons & forward controls...looks COMFY!
Mark
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Okay, but if you look at the seat position and handle bars and foot controls, doesn't look ridable to me.
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I'm guessing it's another 'we made it coz we could' bike 
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Now let's not be too harsh. 
All it needs is a set of Apehangers.
Hold the phone...
Please tell me that's not the exhaust outlets I see under the right side of the seat. 
I give up, I tried to be nice, but these guys are hopeless. 
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I think we're missing the point.
It's an exercise in design and engineering.
IMO, it looks no worse than is produced by a certain bunch of moronic tv chopper builders.
A couple of minor points (put real bars on it and decent pipes), this thing is ready to go.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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I like it, but I wouldn't want to ride it. Would look good in my living room, though.
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change the bars and i really like it
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Would look good in my living room, though.
Screw having it in my living room, its value would look REALLY good in my checking account 
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I'd take it back, looks like they forgot to put some of the parts on it, like half the swingarm.
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As a fly fisherman I look at things a little differently ~~ there are fly rods a person owns to own and there are fly rods a person owns to fish. This ~~ to me ~~ would be a bike a person owns to own. All in all ~~ I like it.
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As a fly fisherman I look at things a little differently ~~ there are fly rods a person owns to own and there are fly rods a person owns to fish. This ~~ to me ~~ would be a bike a person owns to own. All in all ~~ I like it.
Great analogy. Just dusted off my Thomas & Thomas 3 weight the other evening. Sadly, it hasn't seen much action in the last few years. That one is a keeper.
I'm of the "build them, don't buy them" school of choppers.
To be honest, it's not as awful as I expected when seeing the title.
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Ferrari Red my bottom.
That is never Ferrari Red. Enzo is turning in his grave as a type.
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Does this come with 3 foot arm extenders so you can reach the bars?
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Hi
Walz Home -Town Hockenheim is 30 Km near me .
I don`t like those Bikes ,
The line stretched unnatural and the seating position is too extreme, and uncomfortable
and at last : tooo much Money for any of us ........
Ride on
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I could undetstand it more if it had a set of rear set foot controls. But this.......
And as i said before....Ferrari Red, I dont think so.
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Are those the exhaust ports right under the right side of the seat? Might get a little hot when posi, er I mean cruising on the strip. I also have to agree with Mark (no, not that one, the other one) that it is not Ferari red.
I actually prefer the 'Akira' type custom/concept bikes to customs like these nowadays.
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Can't say I would like to ride it, but I think it would be the talk of eBay, if I owned it.. 
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It's apparently all about attitude and not ride  as you can plainly see from his first and apparently more "comfortable" Hardcore bike, now fast forward your head to those clip ons on the current not-Ferrari-Red scoot. I wonder if he really rode off wearing those "shower" shoes...
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Ok I'll play the devil here. I normally HATE big buck customs (I don't consider this a chopper) but I really like Walz Hardcore Cycle's work. That thing is bad-a$$, the color is great, the clip ons rule but my legs are too short for forward controls. I have a 30" inseam, I *might* be able to get my toes on the pegs...
I like it! (although I could never afford it)
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different exhaust than on first picture
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hey wots wrong with those shoes thats wot we wear to go to the beach on our bikes
cant think of what might happen or you'll never live life to the fullest
waltz make nice chops
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hey wots wrong with those shoes
Ask me that again when you're picking the gravel out of the shredded soles of you feet.
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different exhaust than on first picture
Yeah, looks like it would cook your thigh.
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different exhaust than on first picture
Different bike. He's received two of these Waltz Hardcore bikes, the black & white shot is of the first one.
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